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In theory, '''Stahlman's gas''', named in honour of Professor [[Stahlman]], was a source of [[energy]] found more than twenty miles below the surface of the [[Earth]] | In theory, '''Stahlman's gas''', named in honour of Professor [[Stahlman]], was a source of [[energy]] found more than twenty miles below the surface of the [[Earth]]. | ||
Professor Stahlman described the gas as "a vast new storehouse of energy that has lain dormant since the beginning of time". He founded the [[Inferno Project]] to drill beneath the Earth's crust in order to tap the gas. Due to insurmountable problems with the project, most noticeably the unintended tapping of [[Stahlman's ooze]] and the subsequent transformations of [[human]]s into [[Primord]]s, the project was abandoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') On the [[Inferno Earth]] the project ruptured the gas pockets causing a worldwide volcanic cataclysm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'') | == History == | ||
Stahlman's gas was believed to be infinitely more powerful than [[North Sea]] gas. | |||
Professor Stahlman described the gas as "a vast new storehouse of energy that has lain dormant since the beginning of time". He founded the [[Inferno Project]] conducted at [[Eastchester]] to drill beneath the Earth's crust in order to tap the gas. Due to insurmountable problems with the project, most noticeably the unintended tapping of [[Stahlman's ooze]] and the subsequent transformations of [[human]]s into [[Primord]]s, the project was abandoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') On the [[Inferno Earth]] the project ruptured the gas pockets causing a worldwide volcanic cataclysm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'') | |||
In the [[Unbound Universe]], the [[Unbound Doctor]]'s [[exile on Earth]] did not begin until [[1997]], work in discovering and harnessing the gas was more successful. | In the [[Unbound Universe]], the [[Unbound Doctor]]'s [[exile on Earth]] did not begin until [[1997]], work in discovering and harnessing the gas was more successful. |
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