China - America cooperates to research and exploit ice in the East Sea

Xinhua News Agency reported that China's Ministry of Energy said that China and the United States are deploying a cooperative research on how to exploit fire ice, which is expected to be conducted before 2020 in the South China Sea. .

Meanwhile, China National Oceanographic Bureau said that last July, China had brought a diving device called 'Giao Long' to test and succeeded at a depth of 5000m in the western Pacific Ocean. According to the plan, by 2012, the diving equipment 'Giao Long' will successfully dive at a depth of 7000m.

Giao Long submersible vessel will be tested in the area
East Sea to sample 'burning ice'. (Photo: Xinhuanet)

Planned from March to May 2012, China will bring the 'Giao Long' diving vessel for the first time to explore and explore the South China Sea.

The estimated budget of this category is 1.5 billion yuan, through this category, it is possible to know the complicated process in deep water areas in the South China Sea, from which the research discussion material can be taken. effective research on the marine environment and the evolution of marine resources in deep water areas. The 'Giao Long' submarine will be applied to the sampling of the 'Ice Flames' in this area.

Since May 2011, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the China Marine Resources Research and Development Association, has submitted to the government the research plan 'The process of changes in deep water areas in the sea. East 'to bring the' Giao Long 'submarine into the mission in the South China Sea.

According to the plan, after the ship 'Giao Long' is taken to the East Sea, the ship will use robotic arms to retrieve samples at high pressure depths and drill underground drill bits at the seabed, conducting tests. Investigate environmental exploration, mark locations where carbonate, water, sediment, organisms and lava were sampled.

Burning ice is a kind of solid chemical synthesis made by natural gas and water , which is a clean energy source with frozen ice at the bottom of the sea, recently discovered for nearly 20 years. It can be an alternative energy source for other traditional energy sources such as coal and oil.