                Comments     Threshold   RE: Sound like all you
need is... By Captain Orgazmo on 12/14/2007 8:45:22 PM , Rating:
2 I have thought of that before, and I am sure it has been
thought of before that. But practically, it isn't that likely to
work. If the gas could be released (which is a problem in
itself... building off-shore steam injection facilities would be
too much of a capital expense, and the reserves are too thinly
spread) I think it would remain in liquid phase due to the
pressure of the water column (depends on depth and water temp).
I'm a petroleum engineering student, and we study some
unconventional hydrocarbon sources like oil shale, cbm, and
tarsands but basically the view is hydrates have been known
about for 30 years or more, and it it'll probably be another 30
till they are profitably recoverable (just like the Athabasca
Oilsands: people have known about them for years, but it took 30
years of government subsidized production before rising oil
prices made them profitable... and