Blowing Hot Air: The Methane Hydrate Delusion

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 00:40 in Earth & Climate

Last week, word came from Prudhoe Bay that sent chills through me as surely as if I’d been standing in the Alaskan North Slope drilling outpost myself. The United States Department of Energy – in collaboration with energy giant ConocoPhillips and the Japanese nationalized minerals corporation – reported success from a month-long test extraction of methane gas tucked into an icy lattice below the permafrost. read more

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