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Looks good for the future of Methane Hydrate, of which undersea deposits could provide 6 centuries of power for our planet. Methane Hydrate is natural gas in a frozen water matrix.



Should those deposits start to outgas (?), due to warming oceans, we'll have to aggressively, proactively burn that methane.


Interesting idea. But its cold down there; take a lot of warming to have that problem?

Theoretically, meteor strikes may have exposed/breached a deposit sometime in history. So large releases probably happen from time to time. How would we know? What trace would these catastrophic methane releases leave in the geologic record?




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