Asian Countries Eyeing Seabeds for Energy
In a bit of oddball Energy news, a slew of Asian countries are looking at mining the seabeds to harvest methane that has been locked away in frozen water. Unlike atmospheric methane that resides in a gaseous state in the upper reaches of our atmosphere, methane hydrate is a methane laden form of solid water. This methane hydrate once was thought to litter the seafloors but modern estimates place the quantity of accessibly methane hydrate between 500 and 2500 gigatonnes Carbon. Now I don’t know…
Posted on Sunday December 16th
