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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Sorry, but not even close.
Gas hydrates are (in a quick 1 sentence explanation) a mix of ice and gas that you find under certain pressure/temperature regions (cold and high pressure).
There are Immense volumes of gas locked up in hydrates at the bottom of the ocean, and in the arctic, but they are obviously pretty hard to get at right now.
That's the problem, I don't seen them being viable large scale source of gas for quite some time, simply because of the resources that have been unlocked in shales, that are enormously easier to get at.
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Yeah, gas hydrates require prices an order of magnitude higher than what we have now. You'll see the pipelines both to our arctic and Alaska, and maybe even widespread coal gasification before hydrates get used. (Assuming nobody makes a genius technological breakthrough, which is always possible.)