This ice burns because it’s actually methane trapped in water. This week on Reactions, we talk about the chemistry of methane hydrates as a source of energy and a climate change threat. Learn more about our Earth Day celebration! www.acs.org/ccew
Sources:
- Climate change impacts on methane hydrates
- Formation of methane hydrate
- Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change
- Gas Hydrate in Nature
- The U.S. Geological Survey’s Gas Hydrates Project
- Methane Hydrate: Fire, Ice, & a Huge Quantity of Potential Energy
- USGS Gas Hydrates Lab
- Direct Measure of the Hydration Number of Aqueous Methane
- The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates
- Formation and Dissociation Kinetics of Methane Hydrates in Seawater and Silica Sand
- Key Findings of the World’s First Offshore Methane Hydrate Production Test off the Coast of Japan: Toward Future Commercial Production
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