Huge Natural Gas From Methane Hydrates Process Developed

New Energy and Fuel ^ | May 3, 2012

[alancarp]

Japan may be where it goes into production...see the text.

Yeah, I saw that... but still... all of this is happening on the North Slope, right? It sounded to me that the Japanese were interested in getting this into production quickly on our soil - and thus would need a delivery means to get the product from there to a port for their boats. I may be misreading it, but that was my interpretation.

[doc11355]

Here's a Possible Method

[WellyP]

I really don’t give a damn what happens to them. Let them eat “F”ing sand.

[thackney]

Watts wrong with butanol?

While significantly better than ethanol (except in octane rating) I don't see it as good as diesel. Shell's Pearl GTL plant also produces Naphtha with is part of the feedstock to gasoline.

I haven't seen anyone successfully make the economics work for Butanol. Shell's process in now in commercial use at their second facility. I expect we will soon see more of them.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK,...thanks.

[TLI]

Little bammy will be ordering “Global Methane Hydrates Safety Oversight and Management Committees” within the week.

He will appoint the current Chairperson of the U.S. Government Department of Diversity and Inclusion to manage it due to their strong qualifications in the fields of Community Organizing and memberships in GLBT Office of Affairs, Aztlan, Raza, MEChA and The Communist Party USA.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Alaska is just the test site.

See the map,...Japan has hydrates along it's coast according to the map.

[dynachrome]

Could this be used on the methane from cow f*rts? haha

[alancarp]

Oh great - Japan, China, India, Pakistan could all have claims in those areas. What could go wrong?

[Marine_Uncle]

Well they sure have enough silica handy to keep their hunger pangs down to a minimum.

[BitWielder1]

This is not new, it comes up every five years or so.
The methane deposits are also mentioned every now and then when someone claims that a few degrees of global warming will release gigatons of methane from the seafloor and thawing permafrost bogs in Siberia and cause a world wide methane catastrophe.
Of course we can't mine this, some little mollusk could get hurt.
(Farming thousands of acres of algae however is fine).

[Jonty30]

I’ve read that there are an estimated 1,000 years supply, based on current demand, of methyl hydrates.

[crusty old prospector]

Sounds like the biggest issue is finding a large supply of carbon dioxide. Maybe they should scrap up all the tundra and burn it?

[Gay State Conservative]

Better yet, diesel and kerosene.Proven technology, at least two large (commercial) sized facilities. It is only a matter of economics and regulations, not a theoretical technology.

I love diesels.I'm driving my second one now and will *never* again drive anything else.Thanks to its outstanding fuel economy I firmly believe that diesel can be a big part of the short term solution,maybe even medium term.But if the reports I've read about *our* supply of natural gas are true I think that *it* is the answer...long term.

As you may,or may not,know about half of the passenger cars on the road in Europe today are diesels.In fact I've heard it suggested that Europe and the US have it exactly wrong,given their particular transportation needs...Europe should be driving gasoline cars and we should be driving diesels.Go figure!

[itsahoot]

But What about
the Polar Bears!

[Right Wing Assault]

Time to Chu this and lock it down.

[Puckster]

So then......Large domes placed on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico with pipes to the shore, to a methane to Natural Gas facility and viola!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s simple Jim.........

The amount of methane gassing away at the bottom of the Gulf is enormous.

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[NormsRevenge]

pretty incredible,, all that energy just lying around, waiting to be exploited, maybe they’ll find dilithium crystals too if they keep looking.. but then the sierra club and nrdc and epa will sue ‘em to block development. ;-)