"Scientists were plumbing the Pacific Ocean on an unrelated expedition when they accidentally. came across the volcano,"
Amazing that something like that could exist less than 20 miles off the coast of California and we're just now discovering it. The wealth of the resources in the ocean boggles the mind and we've yet to discover a fraction of it.
True.. methane is obviously natural.. Maybe fusion should not be the solution to our energy problems but finding out how methane is created naturally.. The answer could be technologically feasible and maybe cheap.. Heck an organism makes ALCOHOL, why not.. Maybe a genectically engineered critter to feed on underground coal deposits creating methane.. There no lack of coal..