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Gamechanging Natural Gas Tech Gets Green Light

FORBES -- In April, the U.S. Department of Energy and an international consortium of major oil and gas companies completed an unprecedented two-month proof-of-concept test in the North Slope of Alaska. The experiment was supposed to show that a steady flow of methane molecules could be extracted from a substance known as methane or gas hydrates submerged under the sea floor.

It worked and the world moved one step closer to tapping gas hydrates, the most abundant fossil fuel resource on Earth.

Gas hydrates consist of a crystalline substance in which methane molecules – the primary component of natural gas – are trapped in a lattice of water molecules.

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Submitted Sep 12, 2012 By: NOTSOGRN

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58salty Champion Author Jacksonville Posts:6,662 Points:632,815 Joined:Aug 2011	Message Posted: Sep 12, 2012 2:42:42 PM Ignore 58salty Report Abuse I bet all this looks good on paper, natural gas, just another set of problems under another name.
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sailormon Champion Author Michigan Posts:3,595 Points:809,210 Joined:Jul 2007	Message Posted: Sep 12, 2012 10:08:35 AM Ignore sailormon Report Abuse But what is going to happen when we take all that trapped carbon in the form of methyl hydrates and burn them up, releasing them into our atmosphere? Do you care? You should!!
Don20 Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:9,687 Points:2,622,555 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Sep 12, 2012 9:48:36 AM Ignore Don20 Report Abuse It worked and the world moved one step closer to tapping gas hydrates, the most abundant fossil fuel resource on Earth. If it worked, next step is get it in production..
msgt_usa Champion Author Virginia Posts:3,478 Points:935,555 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: Sep 12, 2012 9:46:52 AM Ignore msgt_usa Report Abuse WOW, I never knew that methan molecules could be extracted from methane. Sounds like a breakthrough project for the DOE.
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