Methane hydrates could become a key ingredient in the US energy mix in the near future and technical challenges to recovering this resource are not insurmountable. That was the gist of a congressionally-mandated report from a National Research Council (NRC) committee. The report, which was sponsored by the US Department of Energy, added that teh DOE's methane hydrates research and development program has made progress over the past five years
展开▼
