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John_Maxwell_IV comments on LINK: Melting Arctic is releasing millions of tons of methane - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: polymathwannabe 07 July 2014 11:31PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 July 2014 04:34:42AM 0 points [-]

Could we harvest the methane out of the arctic and use it as fuel instead of letting it escape? Relevant NY Times.

Comment author: Baughn 08 July 2014 11:32:42AM 2 points [-]

Problematic. Unlike with oil, it isn't kept down by a hard cap of rock; we can't drill a single hole and have it bubble up, we'd need to physically harvest vast quantities of methane slurry, and meanwhile it'd still be bubbling up.