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To: Andrew who wrote (73814)	4/1/2001 9:07:46 PM
From: t4texas	Respond to of 99985

methane hydrates are everywhere ok. thanks for the pointer on methane hydrates. i read quite a few references, and there has been a lot of study on the subject. congress has allocated money for some of the studies. the short of methane hydrates seems to be: good news that they estimate huge, huge, huge quantities of methane trapped in water crystallization on the ocean floor below 500 meters. bad news is that it is unbelievably unstable. if one is going to talk about methane hydrates, i think it is only fair to show what the current technical problems are. disturbing methane hydrates on the ocean floor by changing pressure or temperature or both can lead to uncontrolled release of huge amounts of methane. so today messing with methane hydrates is like puncturing an aerosol spray can. looks like a lot of study and then a lot of technology will be needed to move on this stuff. however i am glad that haim posted the info. i learned something. here is a link with info: cnie.org