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On 10/31/2024 5:54 AM, D wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 
>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are probably more methane leaks from natural seeps in the seabed
>>> of the Gulf of Mexico than anywhere else in the planet.  At 2,000 feet
>>> below the surface to 10,000 feet below the surface, there is six feet of
>>> frozen methane covering the entire Gulf of Mexico seabed.  The frozen
>>> methane is constantly sublimating and rising to bubble up into the
>>> atmosphere.
>>
>> This is bad, bad news.  Why isn't somebody capturing that and selling it?
>> Burning that as fuel would reduce global warming and also provide energy
>> at the same time. How can we use this?  How can we make money from it?
>> --scott
> 
> Probably too dispersed, too deep and too little to make it economical.

Its not just seabed methane clathrates. Global warming is also causing
methane to release as permafrost melts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegdEOSQotE

pt