Posted on 10/25/2012 9:29:56 PM PDT by neverdem
http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/how-was-methane-hydrate-discovered [snip] It wasn’t until the 1960s that methane hydrate was discovered as a naturally occurring element. Scientists first discovered the solid natural gas in a gas field in western Siberia. In 1982, scientists retrieved a deep-water sample near the Guatemalan coast that helped spark U.S. research and development into methane hydrate as an energy source. [/snip]
The piece sounds like grant fishing to me. Screw around at sea, write about a hypothesis, use that for the basis of a grant application
How about granting ourselves the right to harvest that methane?
Mann?
If I recall correctly, far more methane is produced by microbes under the ocean than on land, the vast majority of all photosynthesis and respiration on Earth also occurs in the ocean as well. Last time I heard, there’s still plenty about our oceans and water-filled caverns left to be discovered.
If a pig had wings...
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