Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 247 Natural Gas

"If I'm not wrong about the poisonous gas in the valley, it should be hydrogen sulfide, a flammable and highly toxic gas. When the concentration is high enough, it smells like rotten eggs. If the concentration is low, it smells like sulfur. "Back at the camp, Purficott gathered everyone and explained his discovery to them: "This sulfide is very deadly and dangerous. When mixed with air, it will form a flammable and explosive mixture. Once the explosives are ignited, the entire valley may be blown into the sky.

When the human body is exposed to the concentration in the valley, your lungs will edema within a few minutes, and then invade the nervous system, causing difficulty in breathing and leading to death.

Therefore, without my permission, no one is allowed to go close to the five kilometers of the valley, and no one is allowed to use open fire close to the valley. If anyone violates this, I will build him into a stone and make a warning sign and put it here for a hundred years! Do you understand everything? "

Purficott emphasized with a serious expression. Seeing that she was so serious, everyone naturally hurriedly expressed that they heard clearly.

They all know how the Earl of the North does things. Although she usually looks like a quiet and elegant noble lady, and she also behaves very kind-hearted, the exploration team and the guards all came to the North with her. I have personally witnessed the massacre she caused in New Shake City, and I know that this Earl who can be described as sweet and cute is actually very iron-blooded.

So no one dares not to take her words seriously, and they will really be built into stones.

After warning everyone, Purficott ordered people to start collecting materials, preparing to make a hot air balloon, and then survey the entire valley from the air.

Although it would be very dangerous to approach a valley filled with toxic and dangerous gases from the ground, the spread of these toxic gases is obviously not too wide, and there is no big problem if you approach it from the air for inspection.

After Purficott made this clear, the people in the exploration team naturally took action quickly.

Natural gas mainly consists of alkanes, of which methane accounts for the majority, and there are small amounts of ethane, propane and butane. In addition, there are generally hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor, a small amount of carbon monoxide and trace amounts of rare gases such as helium and argon.

After all, it has been leaked to the surface, which shows that the gas field is not buried deep.

Everyone didn't quite understand what she was doing, but after digging a few pits and seeing gas coming out of the pits, and yellow flames igniting when ignited with fire, Perficott was satisfied and let people put them in. The flame goes out.

However, when excavating the land around the valley, the leaked gas is colorless and odorless. When ignited, it shows a yellow flame. It can be judged that there should be relatively abundant natural gas underground, and it is not difficult to extract it.

Obviously, there is not only sulfide in this valley, or the hydrogen sulfide in the valley can only be regarded as a companion substance. The natural gas leaking out of the valley should be the natural gas she initially judged.

For example, in the valley in front of you, the main component of the gas is methane, but mixed with a large amount of hydrogen sulfide, it creates the strong smell of rotten eggs in the valley.

While everyone was collecting materials according to her request, Purficott led a few people and started digging holes in the ground around the camp.

As for the previous judgment that this was an oil-associated gas field, it was confirmed after Perficott used her all-seeing eyes to analyze the composition of the gas leaking from the ground. She found evaporated petroleum components in the gas.

In fact, Purficott's goal has been achieved at this time. He only needs to build oil wells around the area to exploit the oil buried underground, but Purficott does not intend to go back directly.

There is obviously more to investigate in the valley in front of him. Although there is no problem in letting the exploration team continue to investigate, Purficott has always been worried about leaving such dangerous work to this group of people who lack relevant knowledge. After all, compared with her, these people did not have a clear understanding of the poisonous and harmful flammable and explosive gases in the valley, nor could they understand the importance of the natural gas and oil buried under this land. She was worried that these people would not I accidentally lit up the entire valley.

It would be a trivial matter to set the valley on fire, but if a spark ignites all the natural gas, or even ignites the underground gas and oil fields...

Then this is a horror story. The fires ignited underground in the ignited oil and gas fields will not go out for thousands of years. Even if the future is the end of the winter, it will be difficult to suppress this level of underground fires.

At that time, it is impossible to say that the North will still have a warm place in the freezing apocalypse.

It's just that no one wants to live in this warm land, because the toxic and harmful gases produced by fires in underground oil and gas fields are simply not suitable for human beings to survive on it.

Not to mention that those flames will extend upward along the cracks in the ground, and the entire area will become very dangerous.

However, these are just Purficott's unfounded worries. As for whether it will really turn out to be like this, it depends on how she will deal with this area in the future, and the investigation that will be carried out after the hot air balloon is launched.

At least for now, it won't turn into the worst situation that Purficott fears.

At present, the people she brought are still obeying her orders very seriously. Even when they light fires for cooking in the camp at night, they pay great attention to the safety of fire, and no one is willing to disobey Purficott's orders. Close to Death Valley.

They were all people who cherished their lives. When they heard the name Death Valley, they knew it was not a good place. Now that they had received Perfect Court's ban, they naturally did not want to get close to the valley.

If there wasn't still an exploration mission, and if Purficott didn't express his intention to leave, someone would have suggested withdrawing now.

As for igniting underground oil and gas fields, although it is indeed dangerous, to be honest, it is not easy to ignite an oil and gas field, especially underground.

Unless it really ignites the entire valley and causes a chain reaction, it is unlikely.

So Purficott wasn't too worried about this.

Apart from this, Purficott has never cared about the trivial matters in the camp. Although she cannot say that she has many soldiers, at least there are still people who can do the work. If she, as a lord, needs to care about anything, , then what does she do raising these people?

So after the people she sent out collected the materials, Purficott began to focus on using alchemy to make hot-air balloons. She planned to make the balloons today, and then take off in the hot-air balloons tomorrow to survey the entire world from the air. Take an all-round look at Death Valley.

(End of this chapter)