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Ocean Energy : Methane Energy
- Gas (Methane) Hydrates -- A New Frontier
-- (USGS Geological Survey)
"Hydrates store immense amounts of methane, with major implications for energy resources and climate, but the natural controls on hydrates and their impacts on the environment are very poorly understood."
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- Huge seabed methane find off Canada's west coast
-- (2002) "A fishing boat's accidental catch has led to the discovery of a huge potential energy reserve off Canada's Pacific coast that could meet the country's energy needs for 40 years, researchers say."
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- Methane Hydrates: Energy Prospect or Natural Hazard?
-- Methane hydrate is a methane-bearing, ice-like material that occurs in marine sediments and in permafrost regions. The amount of methane contained in hydrate deposits is enormous. Hydrate deposits contain a much greater amount of natural gas than conventional accumulations, however, there is today no practical and environmentally safe way to produce the gas. Destabilization of the hydrates with uncontrolled release of large volumes of methane is a significant hazard.
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- Microbial methane makers revealed
-- Could frozen methane (called methane hydrate) trapped in the ocean floor be the answer to the world's energy problems? Even conservative estimates of the potential for this untapped resource are tantalizing, so researchers are trying to develop realistic models of hydrate distribution and rate of formation in seafloor sediments.
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- Senator Akaka Introduces Methane Hydrates Bill
-- Akaka introduced legislation to promote research and development of methane hydrates as an energy resource. The Methane Hydrate Research and Development Act of 1999 would establish a research and development program at the Department of Energy to assess and develop methane hydrates as an energy source.
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- The fuel of the future may be ice that burns
-- In the realm of energy R&D, methane hydrates are being evaluated as a potential fuel for the future. Some believe there is enough methane in the form of hydrates—methane locked in ice—to supply energy for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years.
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- The Ice that Burns: Can methane hydrates fuel the 21st century?
-- The frozen substance is called methane hydrate, a name that has been increasingly echoing off the walls of Congress, university research offices, and oil company conference rooms around the world. Until recently, the natural gas industry considered it a nuisance. Now, some scientists view methane hydrates as the resource that may power the 21st century, and governments are scrambling to explore its promise.
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- Will Methane Hydrates Help Power the World in 2020?
-- Research over the last decade has shown that the oceans around the United States hold immense amounts of methane (the primary component of natural gas) concentrated in cage-like ice structures known as methane hydrates. A single unit of hydrate can release as much as 160 times its volume in gas when heated and depressurized.
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