Preventing the dispensing of too much methane into the atmosphere during underwater mining does propagate identifiable obstacles. Moving excessive of quantities of water, saline build up and finding a suitable compound to replace of clathrate once extracted are major areas of concern that much analyzed further. Methane, like all other green house gas, has a number of environmental programs with regards to human health indicators. Release of outlying coal bed wells into ocean ecosystems, contamination of fresh water wells and aquifers, venting and spewing of methane and other chemicals associated with release, increased air pollution, destruction of pliable land and harm to wild life must all be assessed by local indigenous landowners in the case of commercial extraction.
Interest has perked from the energy industry for exploitation of clathrate hydrate. Japan , a country nearly entirely dependent on fuel imports has embarked on a long range problem to determine the economic and environmental feasibility of extracting frozen methane hydrate off its continental margins. Methane hydrate, from Japan will funnel has funneled $120 million US in researching methane recovery from permafrost zones for energy purposes. Clathrate extraction will no doubt be further on the list as methane energy conversion is being sought over.
Messokyak gas in the Western Siberia has used gas hydrate as secondary to conventional gas from existing natural gas fields. This successive use has helped in the development of methane research as various schemes of geochemical study are considered at the academic level.
Studying human health implications in Polar regions is feasible and relevant as gas hydrate are found where temperatures are cold enough for onshore permafrost exploitation to take place and close enough to offshore continental margins to for clathrate extraction.
It has been calculated that the amount of gas hydrate in the outer continental margin of the Arctic Basin is 1.1 x 1015 m3. Data concerning the outer continental margin is determined knowing that the Arctic is 5% of the total length of the continental margins worldwide, a significant amount.
Kvenvolden and McMenamin, reknowned geochemists in the field of gas hydrates, determined that if the geological occurrence of natural hydrate has become increasingly evident as naturall occurring gas hydrate is a significant component of the shallow geosphere. Kvenvolden postulates that the social relevancy of gas hydrates is relevant in 3 ways: resource, climate and hazard. “The only hazardous aspect of immediate importance in consideration is the human welfare of the northern population” due to high sensitivity to ecological disturbances.
Messokyak gas in the Western Siberia has used gas hydrate as secondary to conventional gas from existing natural gas fields. This successive use has helped in the development of methane research as various schemes of geochemical study are considered at the academic level.
Studying human health implications in Polar regions is feasible and relevant as gas hydrate are found where temperatures are cold enough for onshore permafrost exploitation to take place and close enough to offshore continental margins to for clathrate extraction.
It has been calculated that the amount of gas hydrate in the outer continental margin of the Arctic Basin is 1.1 x 1015 m3. Data concerning the outer continental margin is determined knowing that the Arctic is 5% of the total length of the continental margins worldwide, a significant amount.
Kvenvolden and McMenamin, reknowned geochemists in the field of gas hydrates, determined that if the geological occurrence of natural hydrate has become increasingly evident as naturall occurring gas hydrate is a significant component of the shallow geosphere. Kvenvolden postulates that the social relevancy of gas hydrates is relevant in 3 ways: resource, climate and hazard. “The only hazardous aspect of immediate importance in consideration is the human welfare of the northern population” due to high sensitivity to ecological disturbances.
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