[Berlin_Freeper]

Free Republic - Plastic

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Nothing new here. Willy Wonka knew about this years ago.

Hot Ice Cream for Cold Days, it said on the next door.

“Extremely useful in the winter,” said Mr. Wonka, rushing on. “Hot ice cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot ice cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks hotter.”

[sgtyork]

For a second I thought it said flammable rice. What would be the Asian version of ethanol.

[BuffaloJack]

Methane Hydrate is cool stuff.
I was shown some about a dozen years ago while visiting an oil drilling platform. It collects on the drillig equipment and mucks things up. Harvesting for direct gas use would be different.
The actual material is waxy and looks a lot like broken up moth balls.

[Spartan79]

You can, of course, expect rending of garments and great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the greenies among us, whose most fervent dream is a world populated by a few million starving wretches sitting huddled around fires of buffalo dung. Burning these methyl hyrates produces methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

[PA Engineer]

I hate the New York Times. All the news that is fit print to print fit.

Experts estimate that the carbon found in gas hydrates worldwide totals at least twice the amount of carbon in all of the earth’s other fossil fuels

Always an agenda.