On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:41:38PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Sep 2008 at 14:15, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Take a load of calcium carbide and put it in
water. Top with a gas trap.
...and to make calcium carbide, take some lime(obtained by roasting
limestone) and some coke (obtained by roasting coal) drop in an
electric furnace...
And to make coal...
Plant some nice swampy forests, let them grow for a few hundred thousand
years (with the old trees toppling and sinking into the mud). Then bury
the whole mess with a kilometer or so of dirt, apply plenty of pressure
and some moderate heat for a few million years. Now dig it up again ;-)
SCNR,
Alex.
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