The Remarkable Energy Potential of Methane Hydrate - http://cleantechnica.com/2011/08/23/the-remarkable-energy-potential-of-methane-hydrate/

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Clathrates have been found to occur naturally in large quantities. Around 6.4 trillion (i.e. 6.4x1012) tonnes of methane is trapped in deposits of methane clathrate on the deep ocean floor.[4] Such deposits can be found on the Norwegian continental shelf in the northern headwall flank of the Storegga Slide. Clathrates can also exist as permafrost, as at the Mallik gas hydrate field in the Mackenzie Delta of northwestern Canadian Arctic. These natural gas hydrates are seen as a potentially vast energy resource, but an economical extraction method has so far proven elusive. Hydrocarbon clathrates cause problems for the petroleum industry, because they can form inside gas pipelines often resulting in plug formation. Deep sea deposition of carbon dioxide clathrate has been proposed as a method to remove this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and control climate change.

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Gas Hydrates is a big opportunity - Gas hydrates today is an opportunity for some person to become richer than Bill Gates! The methane hydrates already identified are larger than all the world's oil, gas & coal combined -

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World reserves of methane - World reserves of the frozen gas are enormous. Geologists estimate that significantly more hydrocarbons are bound in the form of methane hydrate than in all known reserves of coal, natural gas and oil combined. - http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,523178,00.html

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Methane hydrates could heat up the world - many scientists see the flames licking out of samples in Indian and Chinese laboratories as a warning sign. They fear that one day the methane from the ocean floor will heat up the world's climate to a far greater extent than coal, oil and natural gas do today. - http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,523178-2,00.html

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Unconventional Gas - Gas hydrates; Swamp gas; Fractured shale (1st US commercial natural gas came from Fractured Shale); coal bed gas (as of 2000, supplied about 8% of the US total natural gas production); Basin center gas; -

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