Now we just need a process to convert methane to butanol
With gas from methane hydrates added to shale and natural gas, ....thousand years ...supply?
I’m gonna guess that this will require a new pipeline (and hence the wedge for the greenies)?
The environmentalists have a hatred of man call into question the value of economic progress in the first place.
Haha like this will fly! The Enviros will find something that lives around there and then say how it will go extinct if we try to mine around there. Just like they said that caribou would die in ANWR because they didn’t think the caribou could walk over a couple feet of dirt mounds to cross over the pipes.
U.S. Geological Survey
Marine and Coastal Geology Program
Gas (Methane) Hydrates — A New Frontier
Methane trapped in marine sediments as a hydrate represents such an immense carbon reservoir that it must be considered a dominant factor in estimating unconventional energy resources; the role of methane as a ‘greenhouse’ gas also must be carefully assessed.
Dr. William Dillon,
U.S. Geological Survey
Hydrates store immense amounts of methane, with major implications for energy resources and climate, but the natural controls on hydrates and their impacts on the environment are very poorly understood.
Gas hydrates occur abundantly in nature, both in Arctic regions and in marine sediments. Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid consisting of gas molecules, usually methane, each surrounded by a cage of water molecules. It looks very much like water ice. Methane hydrate is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 300 meters, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
The worldwide amounts of carbon bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.
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http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html
Forget the electic/whatever hybrid car.
Bring back the CNG car/truck technology developed decades ago.
Propane is good too.
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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Could this be used on the methane from cow f*rts? haha
I’ve read that there are an estimated 1,000 years supply, based on current demand, of methyl hydrates.
Sounds like the biggest issue is finding a large supply of carbon dioxide. Maybe they should scrap up all the tundra and burn it?
Time to Chu this and lock it down.
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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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. ;-)
It’s hopeful. It could bring about change. Therefore, it will cause global warming, and must be stopped./s
Mine it - use it up, else if the Earth warms enough all that hydrate will convert to gas turning the Earth back into a methane atmosphered planet. Oxyen will then become the new currency ... until the fresh water and food are used up.