Alaska's Methane Hydrate Resource Spark Debate Over Energy And Climate ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source. The U.S. Department ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Climate-changing methane 'rapidly destabilizing' off East Coast, study finds
"Our estimate ... may therefore represent only a fraction of the methane hydrate currently destabilizing globally." The wider destabilization evidence, co-author Ben Phrampus told NBC News, includes data from the Arctic and Alaska's northern slope in ...usnews.nbcnews.com
Strategic Carbon heats up
The DOE called it a "successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska" to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates, "a vast, entirely untapped resource that holds enormous potential for U.S. economic ...www.seacoastonline.com
Waking the methane monster is madness (2)
According to Natalia Shakhova, a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and one of the leaders of the Siberian Shelf study, "The Siberian Shelf alone harbours an estimated 1,400 billion tonnes of methane in gas hydrates, about twice as ...blogs.redding.com
Shanghai Electric taps 'combustible ice' in future energy plan
But, as Discovery News has pointed out, "some methane isn't waiting around to be extracted. University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Katey Walter Anthony studies how thawing permafrost is causing increased methane emissions. She's known for ...reneweconomy.com.au
Candidate Jill Stein: 'The climate catastrophe is rapidly closing in on us'
Dr. James Hansen says,"Our greatest concern is that loss of Arctic sea ice creates a grave threat of passing two other tipping points - the potential instability of the Greenland ice sheet and methane hydrates. These latter two tipping points would ...www.examiner.com
BP says Gulf spill well sealed despite surface oil sheen
BP engineers aborted the plan after methane hydrates, a flammable form of frozen natural gas, began collecting on the cofferdam.www.reuters.com
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