World's largest water reservoir is 640km deep inside Earth

[Nineshadow]

 In what could quench the thirst of billions of people in the future, researchers have discovered our planet's largest water reservoir 640 km beneath our feet - bound up in rock deep in the earth's mantle.

This water is not in a form familiar to us - it is not liquid, ice or vapour.

 

This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals in the mantle rock.

 

The discovery suggests water from the earth's surface can be driven to such great depths by plate tectonics, eventually causing partial melting of the rocks found deep in the mantle.

"We are finally seeing evidence for a whole-earth water cycle that may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades," explained geophysicist Steve Jacobsen from Northwestern University.

The findings, published in the journal Science, will aid scientists in understanding how the earth formed, what its current composition and inner workings are and how much water is trapped in mantle rock.

 

Read more : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/worlds-largest-water-reservoir-found-deep-in-earth/479245-79.html

 

Consider that the deepest mine is only 4km deep.This won't be accessible in any way for a long long long long long time.

 

Still it's a sign of bad journalism.If you see in the title "World's largest water reservoir" you'd expect something like an ocean, ey?Hell no.

Pretty interesting nevertheless.

[Katsu-K1L]

Hold my beer, il take a dive.

[AlwaysFSX]

Hold my beer, il take a dive.

We should turn it into beer...

[CCap]

I like looking at all the different names of scientists-- a lot of them are really fun to say.

 

"Geophysicist"

[Shd0w2]

We should turn it into beer...

I say we make a huge world wide water coolingloop.

[Katsu-K1L]

We should turn it into beer...

lol that would probably happen when Germany wins the world cup.

[Nineshadow]

I like looking at all the different names of scientists-- a lot of them are really fun to say.

 

"Geophysicist"

Cous-cous is way funnier to say.

[CCap]

Cous-cous is way funnier to say.

At first I read that as "funner" instead of "funnier" and lol'd for about 10 seconds.

 

Octogenarian is pretty fun too

[qwertywarrior]

god damn it

not another DLC

[AlwaysFSX]

I say we make a huge world wide water coolingloop.

You really want to water cool my i3? You're so kind.

 

lol that would probably happen when Germany wins the world cup.

We will win, especially since Spain is out. Those jackoffs.

[Katsu-K1L]

I say we make a huge world wide water coolingloop.

#WatercoolAfricanChildren

[Fred Castellum]

Ok? so.... how much is it gonna cost to make use of that water?... 

[Nineshadow]

Ok? so.... how much is it gonna cost to make use of that water?... 

Cost?

It's impossible so far.

[AlwaysFSX]

Ok? so.... how much is it gonna cost to make use of that water?... 

If it's made in to beer, not a lot. Because we'll want it.

[Fred Castellum]

Cost?

It's impossible so far.

If it's made in to beer, not a lot. Because we'll want it.

Whats the point in knowing it's there if we can't use it? o.0 

 

Sure its interesting to know but.... its 640km deep apparently....

[Shd0w2]

#WatercoolAfricanChildren

#CureThem

[Altecice]

We wont ever need to use that tbh... we have more than enough water on the surface and desalination plants to turn it into clean drinking water . Also I doubt its a 4th form of water its just liquid water thats trapped in rock.

[AlwaysFSX]

Whats the point in knowing it's there if we can't use it? o.0 

 

Sure its interesting to know but.... its 640km deep apparently....

Because science!