methane clathrate

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methane clathrate

A potential source of clean fuel formed when methane produced by bacteria on the ocean floor dissolve and crystallise. While methane clathrate deposits are thought to represent 2–10 times the volume of natural gas, extraction with current technologies is not seen as commercially viable.

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[UKPRwire, Sat Aug 10 2019] "Commercial, transportation and heavy industries will be the leading sectors where the methane hydrate market will be dominant but currently it is at the nascent stages." Methane Hydrate Market: Introduction Methane Hydrate also known as methane clatharate, hydromethane, methane ice, fire ice, natural gas hydrate, or gas hydrate.

Now Available - Worldwide Methane Hydrate Market Report 2019 to 2029

Although it is widely known that the rings are mainly water ice, the latest Cassini data has ruled out ammonia ice and methane ice. What's surprising, however, is that it can't detect the organic compounds at all.

Saturn Mystery: Composition Of Rings Baffles Scientists

Giuranna said that further research was needed to determine the extent of the methane ice sheet near Gale Crater.

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

The clouds are said to from when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upwards over the dark vortex, thereby causing the gasses to freeze into methane ice crystals.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observes storms on Neptune and Uranus

Read more: Pluto's marvelous methane ice dunes surprise scientists

NASA probe performs most distant flyby of spacerock

USING DATA SENT BACK from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft after its 2015 flyby of Pluto, planetary scientists think they've found evidence of wind-built ripples of methane ice on the world's surface.

Dunes on Pluto

Experts said the likely source of the dune grains is methane ice blown from nearby mountains.

Pluto's surface covered in dunes made of solid methane blown from icy mountains, scientists reveal; The surprising discovery was made by images captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft which flew past the dwarf planet

The addition of nitrogen and methane ice spotted on the surface of the tiny world may also help keep the water warm.

Pluto May Harbor Liquid Ocean

Naturally, one then would ask, "Can pure methane ice support such steep structures under Pluto's gravity and surface temperature conditions over geologic time?"

Pluto's 'Snakeskin' Terrain: Cradle of the Solar System?

Slight warming of the water above these deposits is all it takes to melt the methane ice and release the stored methane--a powerful greenhouse gas with 82 times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide over a 25-year period.

Is the arctic carbon bomb about to go off?

While Uranus and Neptune are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, they both contain significant amounts of methane ice, which gives them their bluish appearance.

New Uranus like planet discovered

"And probably some methane ice and carbon dioxide ice, with a little rock thrown in.