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GliderGuider

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20. It's too diffuse and too remote.

Thu Aug 7, 2014, 02:35 PM

Aug 2014

So we can't capture it and we can't transport it even if we could capture it.

They are, however, planning on mining seafloor methane hydrates. Oh joy.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/energy-production/frozen-fuel4.htm

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