Scientists find frozen methane gas deposit

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | January 28, 2006 | ALICIA CHANG

[coconutt2000]

"Honey, I'm going fishing today for Methane. I'll be home to dinner with enough to power our house for the next decade."

[nightdriver]

"What, pray tell, is the freezing point of methane hydrate."

It depends on the pressure.

It's interesting stuff. It looks like ice, feels line styrofoam when you hold it in your hands, (barely cold at all), and when the pressure is off of it, it outgasses the methane and the ice just sublimates, leaving no water at all.

It is a nuisance in the oilfields, because it can build up in pipe elbows and valves and shut down the flow.

[Max in Utah]

What, pray tell, is the freezing point of methane hydrate.

At the pressure of 2600ft ocean depth, it's probably surprisingly high.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, FN.

Google

[Wiz]

Methane Hydrate ping!

[AD from SpringBay]

We better leave it alone. Trying to do something with it could bruise a shrimp or ruffle a gull.

[Andonius_99]

hmmmm...frozen farts...

[jpl]

Gee, I thought we had already discovered all of the sources of energy on the planet! Surely this must be the last new one we'll ever find.

I look forward to the day when the consensus scientific community finally comes out and admits that Thomas Gold and the Russian scientists are correct about how hydrocarbons are really formed.

[hgro]

Scientists find frozen methane gas deposit

And its not in Washington, D.C. !!

[Max in Utah]

I was just thinking of how sea floor methane hydrate deposits might be subducted into the earth and converted into petroleum by heat and pressure. Can anyone comment on the chemistry involved?

[okie01]

Thank you!

[okie01]

Thanks for the answers to my question.

One of the great things about Free Republic: you've got questions, about damn near anything, somebody's got answers.

[freepatriot32]

ping

[Freebird Forever]

Interesting.

Thanks for the ping.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Blood of Tyrants]

If your area is hotter, colder, dryer, wetter, or about normal, it's all due to global warming.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If your area is hotter, colder, dryer, wetter, or about normal, it's all due to global warming.

[Fiddlstix]

Some people just like to scream hysterically, but isn't that what rock concerts are for?

Well Said.

[cartoonistx]

Industry is bad, that's all.

Actually, anything that helps America and it's economy beat out the socialist's "worker's paradise" model of global enslavement is bad!

[prairiebreeze]

Well, this is going to raise a stink.