Yes, Redwood and Sequoias only spread out after a fire has toasted away the underbrush and dried out the cones. Otherwise the seeds rot .
The ground rods had nothing to do with our forest fires. That was from power lines breaking in the wind. (Way Up North it can happen from ice. ). . . I do not recall hearing that our fires were due to power company equipment and also have not heard of the need for extra ground rods. I guess I will install some extra rods if such becomes the thing to do. . . .
. . . pushing a power company into bankruptcy does reduce it's ability to deal with the equipment problems in the near term. . .
Hello; I understand the feeling. Saw another burden for some homeowners in your area in the news. That being insurance companies are starting to refuse to write or to renew policies for some areas.Tonight is gorgeous, though, and this is the reason we live here (in spite of the fire danger and the big earthquake loaming over us.)
Earthquakes worry me far less than the fires. Fires, after an earthquake, in a city . . . now that is scary.We've got another fire weather watch warning from Wednesday through Friday. Tonight is gorgeous, though, and this is the reason we live here (in spite of the fire danger and the big earthquake loaming over us.) . . .
I have watched survival type nature programmes from very cold climates where they go fishing. They drill holes in the ice in frozen lakes and before they can start fishing they have to burn the methane gas that comes out of the hole, and lots if it. The methane, as you say, is built up in the lake bed, released, but cannot escape into the atmosphere due to the very thick and sometimes year round ice. Apparently climate change is eventually going to melt all this ice and scientists predict that extremely bad things are going to happen due to these enormous methane gas reserves. It will enter the atmosphere and turn us into Venus!!!Hello; I was browsing the stuff which comes up when I log on to the internet. Saw an article about arctic methane. Was going to link it here but could not find it when I went back. Anyway just do a search using the two terms artic methane . When I did so a slew of stories came up. I have known of methane hydrate for a long time. The sleeping giant of greenhouse gases so to speak.
Back in the days when it looked like fuel for our cars was about to run low I had wondered if some how that methane could be captured and used. My thinking being since methane is a many times worse greenhouse gas than co2 if just released into the air, that burning it and converting it to co2 might be a wiser choice. You still get some greenhouse gas, but a less intense one and also some useful energy. Of course back then it was a "one of these day in the future" thought problem. Funny how the future always seems to show up as now.
My mind keeps drifting back to the 1960's and 70's. Winters back then were often very harsh in this same are where I still live. The winter of 1977 was an especially bad one, but not the only one. I seem to recall the experts thinking we might be at the end of an interglacial period and heading into another glacial advance time. It was known there had been several advances of the ice sheets over time with interglacial times of warming. I guess the thinking was we may have reached a tipping point for a somewhat quick, in geological terms, into another cold period.
Well that scenario does not seem to have played out, at least for a while. While I can buy into our human activities adding a layer of impact onto natural climate forces, I just do not see our stuff overcoming natural forces over time. May be we have thrown an extra blanket (analogy for greenhouse gas) around the earth and added a bit to things. However that methane hydrate was and has been around for a very long time and my guess could dwarf our activities.
Here is my take on natural methane. There are in swamps and some lakes places where layers of mud form which trap organic stuff. The mud layers can create an anaerobic zone (no oxygen) where types of bacteria feed and release methane (swamp gas). I have see it.
A fellow I know ran a store in Harlan County KY. One day he asked me to look at his store toilet. He flushed it and threw in a lit match at the same time. It briefly flared in flame. We suspect that being in the coal and natural gas zone of the mountains it was from the then new processes of tricking more gas out of the rocks. Must have been the methane getting into the water table and into some well water. I don't know how that played out as i moved about 50 miles away and have not been back in over ten years.
So the same natural forces that made coal beds and natural gas deposits millions of years ago and over time have trapped methane hydrate. That hydrate is the things to look out for more than co2.