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JR
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16 years ago

...Well it interested me anyway. Item on the lunchtime local news (BBC Midlands Today - Birmingham studio) . Keel University are developing a method to 'tap' methane gas out of coal seams deemed uneconomic for deep mining and out of bounds to open cast because of environmental concerns.
The idea is to use bore holes for the gas and to replace it with CO2 from combustion.
All this sounds too simple to me. What do you lot think of the idea ?

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Wormster
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16 years ago

Well..................

Extracting the methane and using that sounds like a viable idea. However replacing the Ch4 with Co2 sounds like to me a bit of a nonsense idea.

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

grahami
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16 years ago

I would imagine the idea is to burn the methane to generate heat ? When you burn methane you get CO2.....

Seriously for a moment, Sutton Manor colliery ran everything on its own methane fired plant, that was two winders, two compressors, turbo generators etc. - until in a fit of madness BC decided to replace the winders with "modern" electric units... and then burn off the methane as waste.... result -they had to import electricity ... pit was deemed uneconomic and closed down. :curse:

Grahami

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Mr.C
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16 years ago

Hardly a new idea, Wolstanton supplied H&R Johnsons tile works with methane for years - including after the pit shut.
Methane plant is still on the site of the former pit but not sure if it's still producing. It's on the right as you enter the now retail park.
The Keele project will tap Silverdales methane.

We inhabit an island made of coal, surrounded by a sea full of fish. How can we go wrong.......