"Flammable ice" could be mined for fuel

sea-maid submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (environment.newscientist.com)

Many signs point toward an energy crisis at some point in the future, so this may come as a pleasant surprise: "'Flammable ice' could be mined for fuel." A team of geologists from Canada and Japan has extracted methane much more efficiently, and without hot water, by pumping air out of drill holes in the frozen structures. This reduces the pressure, raising the melting point of the ice so that the methane could be removed.

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