Timeline for Is it feasible to 'harvest' the clathrates from the permafrost before they evaporate?
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| May 7, 2020 at 3:19 | comment | added | Keith McClary | Need a reference for terrestrial clathrates and how much they are dispersed. | |
| Aug 17, 2019 at 20:03 | comment | added | Michael Walsby | There are clathrates in Arctic permafrost, and also biomass which will release CO2 and methane if it thaws for an extended time. In another answer I mention sea bed clathrates and the possibility of mining them,but it has so far proved impractical.. | |
| Aug 17, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | a user | You seem to be confusing permafrost which is under tundra and clathrates which are under the sea. There are many patents about methods of extracting clathrates, and both China and Japan have extracted them as experiment, article from 2017 states that China expects extracting clathrates from south china sea to become economically viable by 2025. Permafrost on the other hand doesn't contain any methane, it contains large amount of biomass which releases methane when decomposing. And it is already melting in many places. | |
| Aug 15, 2019 at 20:38 | vote | accept | hawkeye | ||
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| Aug 15, 2019 at 13:16 | history | answered | Michael Walsby | CC BY-SA 4.0 |