Future Tech: Lab Tours – Energy

Yes, we’re on the verge of exhausting the oil, gas, and coal we’ve come to depend on over the past 150 years. Demand for these fossil fuels will exceed supply by the year 2020, according to the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. But our one and only planet offers another natural fuel that could power our lives for centuries more. That’s right, centuries. It’s called methane hydrate, and there’s over 200,000 trillion cubic feet of it in the U.S. alone.

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