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Why ‘flammable ice’ could be the future of energy
Buried below the seabed around Japan, there are beds of methane, trapped in molecular cages of ice. In some places, the sediment covering these deposits of frozen water and methane has been eroded away, leaving whitish mounts of what looks like dirty ice rearing up out of the seafloor. Take a chunk of this stuff up to the surface and it looks and feels much like ice, except for a give-away fizzing sensation in the palm of your hand, but put a match to it and it doesn’t just melt, it ignites.
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The future of energy is yet another scarce hydrocarbon I guess. Not only does burning frozen natural gas release CO₂, but it’s also a greenhouse gas that traps thirty times the heat in the atmosphere that CO₂ does. Some future.
Exactly. The only cool thing about clathratres is that they look like burning ice.