That's A Lot of Gas

[Kathianne]

http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/details.asp?ep=74




Gas Hydrates on Alaska's North Slope
Host: Jessica Robertson
Tagged: energy GasHydrates
The USGS estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This is the first-ever resource estimate of technically recoverable natural gas hydrates in the world.

This assessment shows that gas hydrates could add significantly to the U.S. energy mix. The Alaskan North Slope holds one of the nation’s largest deposits of technically recoverable natural gas.

USGS Director Mark Myers and USGS scientist Timothy Collett discuss the assessment and its results.

[Joe Steel]

If your suggesting this is an energy source, it looks like another bad idea.


Methane trapped in marine sediments as a hydrate represents such an immense carbon reservoir that it must be considered a dominant factor in estimating unconventional energy resources; the role of methane as a 'greenhouse' gas also must be carefully assessed.

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Methane, a "greenhouse" gas, is 10 times more effective than carbon dioxide in causing climate warming.

Methane bound in hydrates...could exacerbate climatic warming and thereby destabilize the climate.

Gas (Methane) Hydrates -- A New Frontier (http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html)

[Missileman]

If your suggesting this is an energy source, it looks like another bad idea.

Either you didn't read, or didn't understand the article. Methane is a greenhouse gas BEFORE it is burned. The methane that escapes the hydrates through natural processes might theoretically have an effect on climate.

[manu1959]

If your suggesting this is an energy source, it looks like another bad idea.

which is exactly why we should get rid of it.....

[Joe Steel]

Either you didn't read, or didn't understand the article. Methane is a greenhouse gas BEFORE it is burned. The methane that escapes the hydrates through natural processes might theoretically have an effect on climate.

As would the methane reduced intentionally or unintentionally by drilling or other collection operations.

[avatar4321]

If your suggesting this is an energy source, it looks like another bad idea.

Sounds like a great energy source for me.

Besides if we have the power to warm this planet up a bit. Let's do it. It's freaking freezing around here.

[Little-Acorn]

Besides if we have the power to warm this planet up a bit
We don't.

The global-warming hysterics, global-cooling nutcases, global-change fanatics, and whoever else this bunch has come up with, have no end of trouble remembering that.

There has never been the slightest evidence that the activities of man have EVER had anything to do with whatever the climate is doing. Despite thousands of these wild-eyed government-must-fix-it acolytes searching for some for generations now.

[namvet]

If your suggesting this is an energy source, it looks like another bad idea.

so are you