Re:China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice'
by Robotbeat on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:15PM
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MAYBE. Methane leaks are incredibly destructive as methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. And mining this stuff could cause leaks.
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Re:China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice'
by Freestyler_3 on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:21PM
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Allthough you could also argue that because of warming these gasses might escape if we don't mine them before that.
Re:China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice'
by stcredzero on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:22PM
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All you need is for someone to come up with a way to capture a lot of methane very cheaply but very inefficiently. Then a swarm of marginal operators will go in with that technique and release gigafktons of methane.