Russia Today
In a move to lessen its dependency on fuel imports, Japan has succeeded in extracting gas from undersea frozen gas deposits, known as ‘burning ice.’
The gas was tapped from deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen gas near Japan’s central coast 80 kilometers off Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture.
Experts estimate that the carbon found in gas hydrates worldwide totals at least twice the amount of carbon in all of the earth’s other fossil fuels, making it a potential game-changer for energy-poor countries like Japan.
Energy researchers estimate there are at least 1.1 trillion cubic meters of methane hydrates near the country's Atsumi Peninsula, enough for about 11 years of Japanese gas consumption; in total, the seas around Japan could have enough gas to supply the country for the next 100 years.
In a move to lessen its dependency on fuel imports, Japan has succeeded in extracting gas from undersea frozen gas deposits, known as ‘burning ice.’
The gas was tapped from deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen gas near Japan’s central coast 80 kilometers off Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture.
Experts estimate that the carbon found in gas hydrates worldwide totals at least twice the amount of carbon in all of the earth’s other fossil fuels, making it a potential game-changer for energy-poor countries like Japan.
Energy researchers estimate there are at least 1.1 trillion cubic meters of methane hydrates near the country's Atsumi Peninsula, enough for about 11 years of Japanese gas consumption; in total, the seas around Japan could have enough gas to supply the country for the next 100 years.
