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Playing with fire: if it can be recovered economically, a mysterious ice that burns may prove to be the source of much of the energy needed to primer the future.
According to some scientists, fishing trawler captain Brian Dickens is lucky to be alive. Dickens was fishing in almost 3,000 feet of water off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island in July of 2001 when he and his crew started to retrieve their deep-water net. Suddenly, without warning, the net rocketed up out of the depths and into the air, accompanied by a surreal hissing sound. "I've been fishing since I was 15," an astonished Captain Dickens said, according to Canada's National Post. "And I can tell you I've never seen anything like it, or even heard about anything like it. I'll never forget it ... the net came shooting out of the water with such force, it was quite ...
- JAPAN FINDS LARGE METHANE HYDRATE FIELD ON PACIFIC SEABED.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News March 6, 2007 700+ words
TOKYO, March 6 Asia Pulse - A methane hydrate deposit capable of producing the equivalent...Using sonar, the survey detected a methane hydrate reserve of 1.1 trillion cu. meters...efforts from this spring. The use of methane hydrate, which is being touted as a next...
- RESEARCHERS TAP METHANE HYDRATE DEPOSIT OFF COAST OF JAPAN.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 21, 2006 700+ words
...has successfully tapped a cache of methane hydrate lying relatively close to the surface...north of Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture. Methane hydrate is a sherbetlike mixture of methane...However, most known deposits of methane hydrate exist hundreds of meters below the...
- Drilling ship studies methane hydrate, the ice that burns.(ENERGY)
- Magazine article from: Advanced Materials & Processes May 1, 2005 700+ words
...inexhaustible supply of energy--the methane hydrate that may represent up to 200,000...potentially huge energy resource trapped in methane hydrate, called the "ice that burns" because...wider effort to better understand methane hydrate. The U.S. Department of Energy...
- JAPAN TO TEST OCEAN-BASED PRODUCTION OF METHANE HYDRATE.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News August 20, 2008 700+ words
...conduct experimental production of methane hydrate from nearby ocean sites starting in...general outline for the experiments. Methane hydrate is a sherbet-like substance consisting...will involve accessing reserves of methane hydrate about 1,000 meters below sea level...
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LEE SEEKS TO CONTROL METHANE...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 18, 2009 700+ words
...issued the following news release: Methane hydrate is a substance consisting of molecules...investigating methods for controlling methane hydrate formation. With a three-year...is how to reduce the formation of methane hydrate plugs within crude oil pipelines...
- Japanese Company to Probe Methane Hydrate in Okhotsk Sea
- Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire July 6, 1996 700+ words
...Oil Corp. will start to investigate methane hydrate next week in the Sea of Okhotsk...deposit six trillion cubic meters of methane hydrate, which is considered to be a potential...MITI's five-year research plan on methane hydrate which the ministry launched in 1994...
- Indonesia has large reserves of methane hydrate gas.(Economic News In...
- Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter September 28, 2004 700+ words
...of 856.6 trillion cubic feet of methane hydrate that could be used as an alternative...Java and in the Sulawesi sea. The methane hydrate gas could be useful in the next 10...Jusuf acknowledged that development of methane hydrate gas reserve will require higher technology...
- DOE announces $2 million for methane hydrate projects.(BUSINESS TRENDS)
- Magazine article from: Advanced Materials & Processes January 1, 2006 700+ words
...energy potential, safety, and environmental aspects of methane hydrate exploration and development. Termed the "ice that burns...U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the nation's methane hydrate resource could total as much as 200,000 trillion cubic...
Source: HighBeam Research, Playing with fire: if it can be recovered economically, a mysterious...