I am NOT making this up

[MolaKule]

I am NOT making this up:

Communications by Gas.

And it may well be viable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061119131926/http://www.nethercomm.com/proof.pdf

 

[lubricatosaurus]

So when I make a gas noise, I'll say its communication.

 

[Shannow]

Appropriate music would either be
* Classical Gas; or
* Mick, me mate the master..... (NSFW, by Kevin Wilson).

Funnily, I got this in my email this morning

http://www.carthagoinc.com/index.php

 

[OneEyeJack]

They already talk to pigs in the pipe lines while they are working. I wonder if the pig could become an intelligence agent sending secret messages here and there.

When I was in school a friend had the job of chasing lost and stuck pigs and marking their location with a stake and a flag to be restarted or retrieved. This was before cell phones and satellite communications existed. You could hit the pipe with a hammer and someone way down the line could hear the noise if a pig was not in the way. I guess that in 50 years or so that communications have improved a bit.

 

[RoadRaceJosh]

I guess no one else here has heard of waveguide?

 

[MolaKule]

Originally Posted By: Joshua_Skinner
I guess no one else here has heard of waveguide?


I thought using the gas pipe as a waveguide made a lot of sense.

Multiplex digital waveforms on the carrier and you have a wideband transmission system.

 

[Michael_P]

No mention in the article as to how it could effect cathodic protection systems of NG lines or vice versa.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Great, in the future my TV will be plugged into my natural gas line. I can just imagine the explosion when there's a leak and a spark inside the TV happens ... LOL!