Chapter 1513 (2/2)

Not only the researchers present, but also the people watching the experiment hundreds of millions of kilometers away, can't help but exclaim.

”Aerobic environment can be directly used as fuel. Combustion products are the same as methane. In anaerobic environment, the decomposition rate reaches a critical value at 150 ℃, and the black alkane will rapidly decompose into a mixture of methane and ethane Try the light Suddenly thought of what, Wang Zhouping excitedly grabbed the microphone and said, ”in the anaerobic environment!”

The researcher in the isolation room looked back at Hou Jun through the glass. Seeing that the latter nodded, he turned around and put a piece of black alkane into the container again. Then he emptied oxygen and filled the inert gas, and began to light the black alkane in the container.

An amazing scene appeared.

According to the jumping parameters of the instrument, the composition of air is changing slowly. Under the light, the black alkane begins to decompose slowly to form methane and ethane. And saw this scene, Hou Jun's eyes also gradually emerged a trace of excitement and suddenly.

In this way, it makes sense.

Why can't photosynthetic bacteria survive in the icy Titan. Through the ”breathing” of methane and ethane, the metabolites of black alkane are generated, and the exothermic reaction maintains the energy consumption. The light from the sun and Jupiter decomposes the black alkane into methane and ethane.

With melanin as the medium, mw1 bacteria formed a closed energy cycle in this dead planet by its own efforts.

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Hundreds of millions of kilometers away, a silver sky plane landed on the tarmac. As the dome closed slowly and the door of the plane opened, Jiang Chen, escorted by a group of soldiers, took the MRT to the headquarters of the Ministry of space.At the space command center, Jiang Chen met Kerwin.

As soon as we met, Kerwin said to him excitedly.

”Black alkane! We've found a whole new energy source! ”

”Black alkane?”

”That's it!” Kelvin taps twice on the touchpad, and a hologram of a black solid emerges in front of the two people, spinning slowly, ”metabolites of mw1 bacteria.”

”That is to say, this thing is the excrement of that mw1 bacterium?”

”That's understandable,” Kelvin continued with an embarrassed smile and a slight cough. ”At present, the Titan outpost is testing its physical properties. According to the data just sent back, this kind of black alkane can decompose naturally under light, and can also be ignited directly in the atmosphere of oxygen. It is no problem whether it is used as a natural gas storage channel or directly as a fossil fuel. It has a very high combustion efficiency and hardly produces harmful gases. ”

After listening to Kelvin's statement, Jiang Chen immediately realized the value of this thing.

It is not difficult to exploit the gas resources of Titan. The mixture of liquid methane and ethane flowing on the surface of Titan does not contain a lot of impurities in natural gas fields, oil fields and some coal fields on earth, so it needs to be refined. It's no exaggeration to say that holding a liquefied gas jar directly unscrewing the gate, throwing it into the lake, and then fishing it out again, is a tank of high calorific value liquefied natural gas with high ethane content.

The only cost may be in storage and transportation.

It seems that it is not difficult to put liquefied gas into low-temperature gas storage tanks and transport them to Mars, moon and even the earth hundreds of millions of kilometers away by seagull class transport ships. It seems that it is not difficult and can be realized technically, but the cost is not small.

To store more gas per unit volume has become a new topic of star ring trade and Energy Research Institute. It is better to study a hydrocarbon which can exist in solid form at room temperature instead of liquefied methane and ethane for transportation.

And the discovery of black alkane, is undoubtedly to solve this problem!

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