Check this out, Don, they are talking about the various
concerns and methods for utilizing this untapped resource.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v35_2_02/methane.shtml
From don.bowen AT earthlink.net Mon Nov 13 17:11:40 2006Return-Path: <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
The world uses 82 million barrels of oil a day ...
>> even IF that well could be successfully pumped, and IF it yielded
>> the very maximum estimate, and IF you could get it from the deep
>> well site to on shore pipelines ... all those if's ..... that well
>> couldn't supply the world oil but for six months.
James, Jack 2 is just one well.
From erthnsky AT bellsouth.net Mon Nov 13 17:19:30 2006Return-Path: <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Some estimates put the total amount of worldwide methane hydrates at
twice the total of all other hydrocarbon sources. US deposits could
be over 200 times our existing natural gas resources. Japan hopes to
be producing methane from sea bed deposits by 2015.
problematic as released gas is many times better a green house gas
than CO2. It needs to be studied in any case as global warming will
release methane from those sources.
One project being explored by Russia is to pump spent nuclear wastes
under the permafrost to melt and release the gases.
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