Gas on Ice
Date: Thursday, February 05, 2004 @ 23:41:53 UTC
Topic: General
From MIT's Technology Review: Once dubbed an energy pipe dream, the prospect of extracting significant quantities of natural gas from frosty hydrate deposits just got a major boost. Scientists working on an experimental drilling project in northern Canada have demonstrated for the first time that they can produce natural gas from an existing gas hydrate deposit in nature. The potential payoff? If we could produce gas from only 1 percent of all the hydrates in the world, we would have enough natural gas to last more than 170,000 years.
I don't know if I should lough or cry about this news...read the whole article at: www.technologyreview.com
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