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To: energyplay who wrote (12360)	1/1/2002 7:04:54 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay/Energyplay. One abracadabra that didn't happen: Trapped Methane. Bandung, March 5th 1995 Dear Andrew, Hydrogen The hydrogen economy will bloom when a cheap and abundant source of hydrogen will be found. This search for hydrogen has been sought by producing it from water by electrolysis. The process requires electricity and need to be produced close to cheap electricity supply. Which creates the problem of transporting the gas. Add to that the dependency to the supplier of (cheap) electricity, being it a hydroelectric plant in Canada, Norway, Russia or Brazil. Read please this piece from the Singapore newspaper The Straits Times, of Mar. 1st. "Deep-sea Methane may Yield Energy Bonanza." The article may lead one to believe the methane will be mined and then burned like natural gas producing CO2 and its consequent environment drawbacks. The methane trapped in frozen compounds the article refers, may in fact be mined to be the raw material for the production of hydrogen. Methane is reacted with steam at high temperature to produce hydrogen. A company trying to "sell" the idea of mining deep-sea methane to the public concerned with the environment, may point that abundant hydrogen will be used to remove CO2 from the environment by producing methanol. Methanol, formerly produced by the carbonising and distilling wood, it is now prepared from the reaction of hydrogen with carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. Methanol will provide the hydrogen fuel based as intermediate technology until pure hydrogen will be used. Bandung, May 14th 1995 Dear Andrew, The hydrogen era is one step closer. US House Science Chief Bob Walker is sponsoring a bill to redirect $100 million of Energy Dept. money to hydrogen research. Business Week International, Feb. 27. Newt Gingrich talks about Euro-American joint ventures under the seas (refer to the piece Deep-sea Methane may Yield Energy Bonanza. ". Amoco starts investing in a Danish process of synthetic fuel. The Economist, March 11th. The piece in The Straits Times, of Mar. 1st. Deep-sea Methane may Yield Energy Bonanza. explained that: "...The methane trapped in frozen compounds the article refers, may in fact be mined to be the raw material for the production of hydrogen..." Methane is not only trapped under the sea. The Economist in an article about global warming mentioned "...ice-methane mixtures (called clathrates) trapped in permafrost under Arctic tundra may thaw and release methane into the air..." In the same article explaining about alternative energy sources it mentioned: "...Dr. Tom Gold of Cornell University, who combines a formidable scientific mind with a lively imagination, foresees a whole new industry thriving on splitting methane (which is made of carbon and hydrogen) into carbon fiber (to compete with metal) and hydrogen (to fuel cars). Cars burning hydrogen would make almost no carbon dioxide at all..."