Worrying about methane hydrates warming the atmosphere is like worrying about your house burning down after it's been leveled by a hurricane, according to a chief scientist for the Department of ...

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Methane hydrate, an ice-like material made of compressed natural gas, burns when lit and can be found in some regions of the seafloor and in Arctic permafrost.

Methane hydrate is an ice-like substance formed when CH4 and water combine at low temperature (up to ~25ºC) and moderate pressure (greater than 3-5 MPa, which corresponds to combined water and ...

Methane hydrate turns out to defy simple questions about whether it is an energy blessing or a climate curse, posing much larger puzzles about how global systems work and what their time frames are.

Methane hydrates, after all, were largely responsible for corrupting the containment dome intended to stop the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rising from the ocean bottom; ...

NAGAKUTE, JAPAN: Attendant of Japan's Gas Pavilion introduces an experiment of the 'burning ice,' methane hydrate, as a potential future source of energy during a press preview for the 2005 World ...

Methane hydrate hasn't always been seen as a fuel source. In the 1940s, it was a nuisance: Engineers discovered the material clogging up the natural gas pipelines.

Methane hydrate is cleaner-burning than oil or coal, but it’s still a fossil fuel, so even if the fuel were able to be tapped cost-effectively it would still contribute to climate change.

Buried beneath the oceans surrounding continents is a naturally occurring frozen form of methane and water. Sometimes dubbed "fire-ice" as you can literally set light to it, marine methane hydrate ...

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Naturally occurring methane hydrate deposits are potential sources of energy. However, their observation in natural environments remains challenging. Researchers have now developed a one ...