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  • Petroleo Brasileiro: Reality Begins to Bite [View article]
    "Engineers will have to overcome temperatures that range from near freezing above the ocean floor to temperatures that can melt bismuth, used for transporting uranium rods and for shotgun shells. "

    The bloomberg article is a piece of junk! What is the melting point of bismuth. The reporter should check it out before writing.

    According to the CEO of PBR interviewed by Financial Times, there is
    no insurmountable challenges on taking out the oil. See
    www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ab...

    FT.com / Companies / Energy Utilities Mining - Petrobras confident over deep water well
    Apr 30 09:09 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Petroleo Brasileiro: Reality Begins to Bite [View article]
    15000 PSI pressure = 0.124GPa.

    See the phase diagram of iron at arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat...

    The melting point of iron is about 2000 K.

    Everything melts at 250 Celsius at 15000 PSI as reported by Blomberg?

    Is something wrong?
    Apr 29 11:42 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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