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I copied and pasted the following just for information since this thread is so fun to follow. Hans
Natural gas is making quite a name for itself lately, as the trucking industry continues to search for the next big infrastructure boom industry. Wind and solar remain flat, but natural gas continues to be a topic of interest for the trucking industry both as a fuel and as a raw material haul. The natural gas fracking industry has nearly set the trucking industry on fire regionally, with potential for going national. Yet only a few states like South Dakota and Wyoming seem to be capitalizing.
Methane Hydrate just adds fuel to the fire, especially in Alaska. The fuel is there in abundant supply and it’s got some properties that make trucking industry leaders cautiously optimistic.
Methane Hydrate
Recent Associated Press reports cite that the U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its molecules. There is little need now for methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. With the boom in production from hydraulic fracturing, the United States is awash in natural gas for the near future and is considering exporting it, but the DOE wants to be ready with methane if there’s a need.
The world has a lot of methane hydrate. A Minerals Management Service study in 2008 estimated methane hydrate resources in the northern Gulf of Mexico at 21,000 trillion cubic feet, or 100 times current U.S. reserves of natural gas. The combined energy content of methane hydrate may exceed all other known fossil fuels, according to the DOE.
CDL Life link, Methane Hydrate
Natural gas is making quite a name for itself lately, as the trucking industry continues to search for the next big infrastructure boom industry. Wind and solar remain flat, but natural gas continues to be a topic of interest for the trucking industry both as a fuel and as a raw material haul. The natural gas fracking industry has nearly set the trucking industry on fire regionally, with potential for going national. Yet only a few states like South Dakota and Wyoming seem to be capitalizing.
Methane Hydrate just adds fuel to the fire, especially in Alaska. The fuel is there in abundant supply and it’s got some properties that make trucking industry leaders cautiously optimistic.
Methane Hydrate
Recent Associated Press reports cite that the U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its molecules. There is little need now for methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. With the boom in production from hydraulic fracturing, the United States is awash in natural gas for the near future and is considering exporting it, but the DOE wants to be ready with methane if there’s a need.
The world has a lot of methane hydrate. A Minerals Management Service study in 2008 estimated methane hydrate resources in the northern Gulf of Mexico at 21,000 trillion cubic feet, or 100 times current U.S. reserves of natural gas. The combined energy content of methane hydrate may exceed all other known fossil fuels, according to the DOE.
CDL Life link, Methane Hydrate
