Ocean floor gas hydrates may solve energy and Bermuda Triangle riddles.(ENERGY)

Advanced Materials & Processes,  September, 2005  

Tags: bacteria, Cardiff University

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Experts from Cardiff University, Wales, have designed a world-first technology to investigate "gas hydrates"--a super-concentrated methane ice that contains more carbon than all conventional fossil fuels and, therefore, is a potentially enormous energy source. One theory now suggests that when the covering of "methane ice" on much of the seabed of the Bermuda Triangle becomes unstable, it releases methane gas that greatly reduces the density of the seawater.

This causes instability of the sea and an explosive mixture of air and methane above. Any ships or planes ...

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