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Gas hydrates shown harvestable in fed test

Anchorage Daily News online -- By SEAN COCKERHAM
Anchorage Daily News

Published: May 2nd, 2012 11:52 AM
Last Modified: May 2nd, 2012 12:57 PM

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy has completed an unprecedented successful test of harvesting the vast storehouse of methane hydrates on Alaska's North Slope, essentially natural gas locked in ice crystals under the permafrost.

It is still a long way from being commercial but the potential is huge. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that the North Slope holds 590 trillion cubic feet of methane hydrate, potentially at least three times as much as the huge amount of conventional natural gas on the North Slope.

The Department of Energy said it also has the potential to eventually unlock massive reservoirs of methane hydrates that are believed to exist under the


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Eventually natural gas surplus will lower the price of oil.
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If we don't harvest the methane, it would just contribute to more greenhouse effect...
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If utilized wisely, the resources described in the article could be very good news!
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And the musk ox
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More Green energy is great!
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