[webheart]

Methane is already a hydrate.

[Go_Raiders]

You are conflating “hydrate” with “hydride”.

hydrate

hī′drāt″

noun

1. A solid compound containing water molecules combined in a definite ratio as an integral part of the crystal. Often used in combination.

2. In chem., a compound of a class which may be regarded as formed upon the same type as water, or by the substitution of a metallic atom, or a basic radical, for one of the atoms of hydrogen in water: for example, HOH, water; KOH, potassium hydrate; NH4OH, ammonium hydrate.

3. A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

[citizen]

We do have a few FR members who do not want the USA/Biden administration to get fingured for ‘decomissioning’ these piplines, as Biden, Nuland and others said we would do.