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The great gas hydrate escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Methane may be answer to 56-million-year question

(PhysOrg.com) -- The release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago has been linked to the greatest change in global climate since a dinosaur-killing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Understanding methane's seabed escape

A shipboard expedition off Norway, to determine how methane escapes from beneath the Arctic seabed, has discovered widespread pockets of the gas and numerous channels that allow it to reach the seafloor.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gas hydrate strategy reinforced

Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Japan to test-drill for seabed 'burning ice'

Japan will seek to extract natural gas from seabed deposits of methane hydrate, also known as "burning ice", in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Researcher uses nanosilica to strengthen concrete (w/ video)

Every day, concrete structures crack and erode prematurely due to Alkali Silica Reactivity (ASR), a chemical reaction that causes fissures in the material as it sets. Jon Belkowitz, a doctoral student at Stevens Institute ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How tiny microbes took a big bite out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

(PhysOrg.com) -- Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, seeps naturally from the seafloor in many places around the planet, including in the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Measuring methane

Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, are all natural sources of atmospheric methane; however, the majority of methane presence ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mars volcanic deposit tells of warm and wet environment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

China builds base to tap deep-sea energy: state media

China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state media said Friday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Snow crabs found clustered around methane vents at bottom of Sea of Japan

Large clusters of a type of snow crab called benizuwaigani have been discovered around methane vents at the bottom of the Sea of Japan, but scientists are not quite sure why.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

BP removes oil cap after submarine crash

Oil gushed unchecked Wednesday from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico after BP's containment system was removed for repairs following a submarine crash, US officials said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could the Taste of Vodka be Related to Molecular Makeup?

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taste, we don't normally think about how something's molecular makeup influences our tongues. A group of scientists at the University of Cincinnati and Moscow State University ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast weblog

China looks to 'combustible ice' as a fuel source

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years. China discovered ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

A Drop in the Bucket

A new technique is being developed to detect water in the protoplanetary disks of other solar systems. If successful, it would help in our understanding of how habitable planets form.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hydrate

Hydrate is a term used in inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry to indicate that a substance contains water. The chemical state of the water varies widely between hydrates, some of which were so labeled before their chemical structure was understood.

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