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To: yard_man who wrote (161171)4/20/2002 11:26:15 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
tippet forget oil there are plenty of methane locked up under the sea much more than known oil reserves. Those sources must be developed. The main problem there is the safe extraction of the methane hydrates.

Roughly 200,000 Tcf of the total U.S. methane resource of 227,500 Tcf resides in methane hydrates

netl.doe.gov

marine.usgs.gov

The US is only to blame for it's own ills in this respect as no money was invested to develop this natural occuring resource.
From 1982 to1992, the DOE invested over $8 million dollars to build a foundation of basic knowledge about the distribution and physical/chemical nature of naturally-occurring methane hydrates.

......... and little was done since 1998/1999 ....... and more to it!!! no one of the big / small oil companies are interested in this energy source for obvious reasons
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