Test Will ‘Mine’ Hydrates for Natural Gas in Alaska

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine This month, scientists will test a new way to extract methane from beneath the frozen soil of Alaska: they will use waste carbon dioxide from conventional wells to force out the desired natural gas. The pilot experiment will explore the possibility of `mining’ from gas hydrates: cages of water ice that hold molecules of methane

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Test Will ‘Mine’ Hydrates for Natural Gas in Alaska