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2018-01-29 at 8:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by Issue313 Flares are sometimes Ethane and other minority gases. I do agree it's a shame that those are flared at all. The reason they are flared at all is because waste gases contain sulphur, which tends to cause corrosion to all metals nearby.
As a result oil well blowouts have been sometimes set alight deliberately, not because a blowout fire helps, but just to preserve steel and silverware nearby.
We should be collecting every atom we can of Argon and Helium (and other noble gases) from natural gas, but we aren't. Those elements/gases are only found in reasonable quantities in natural gas, as a result of radioactive decay deep within the earth. The reason they aren't collected is cos it isn't economically worth while - right now.
whats annoying is the cost of argon (a gas used in welding)
it used to be cheap as fuck but since the mid-90s its almost doubled in price -
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2018-01-31 at 5:57 PM UTCI think I'm just going to stop smoking cigarettes. Can't be too hard
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2018-01-31 at 6:18 PM UTC
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