[HiTech RedNeck]

Next: drilling the Bermuda Triangle to get natural gas?

[mountn man]

Just tap Michael Moore and Al Gore

[smokingfrog]

As long as it’s not BP doing the drilling.

[GVnana]

Drill baby, drill.

[piytar]

Japan is actually working on this. There is a massive deposit of methane hydrate within their territorial waters.

One problem is safely mining the hydrate without dislodging huge chunks of it. As in ENORMOUS chunks. There are other problems. But if the problems can be cracked, there are quadrillion of cubic feet of natural gas available from this source. Actual, hundreds of quadrillions of cubic feet.

PS Yes, really, as in about 300,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet of know reserves.

[JSteff]

the actual shape of these regions as more like a lozenge rather than a triangle

Geometry was not my greatest class but I don't recall a "lozenge" shape. I have had many cough lozenges in my life but they all were different shapes. Squares, rectangles, circles, etc.

Does anyone have a picture of the "lozenge" shape?

[jongaltsr]

If we could only operate our cars on all the hot air certain people emit and in conjunction with the natural gas (methane) that we all produce daily in the course of our daily lives, we could putt putt down the road at a leisurely 20 - 30 mph (cost free).
Question is this - how do we connect the input orifice to the engine to our output orifices (mouth and anus).

[Wonder Warthog]

"Next: drilling the Bermuda Triangle to get natural gas?"

Clathrate precipitates on the sea floor. AFAIK, the technology to access this form of methane doesn't exist. It's not a normal underground reservoir like Macondo, or even a shale deposit.