>http://www.netl.doe.gov/scngo/Natural%20Gas/hydrates/index.html
>Interesting reading...don't know too much about the >subject...but possible fuel source according to some. >Survey estimates that methane hydrate may contain more >organic carbon than all the world's coal, oil, and >non-hydrate natural gas combined.The magnitude of this >previously unknown global storehouse of methane is >truly staggering and has raised serious inquiry into >the possibility of using methane hydrate as a source >of energy. I also don't know too much about this subject,but in Richard Heinberg's book 'Power Down',he states a few things about it.Taking his point of view,would be mostly pessamistic,but it seems as though he thinks there are a lot of technical diffuculties in acquiring it, and possible catastrophic consequences in doing so. Technical difficulties are that you have to mine it from the ocean floor...and when doing this,it could disrupt sea floor stability, causing huge under-water landslides that could possibly create tsunamis, and release the frozen methane into the ocean,which makes it way up to the surface and into the atmosphere. Methane is over twenty times as effective as carbon dioxide in trapping the sun's energy on earth(a really good working greenhouse gas).Something jaw-dropping that was also in his book stated that there is sometimes methane hydrate trapped in permantly frozen soil on land,like Siberia and Alaska...and 'Russian engineers have actually suggested pumping nuclear waste under the Siberian permafrost to thaw the hydrate fields there so they can be exploited.'!!!!What???!!! _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
