Predicting Gas Hydrates Location And Quantities Just Got Easier

Given that there’s more carbon trapped inside ice-like crystals under the seafloor than in all the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves combined, it seems like it would be easy to find. Up to now that hasn’t been the case, but thanks to the award-winning research of Rice University graduate student Gaurav Bhatnagar, the search for gas hydrates just got easier.

It’s estimated that there are as much as 20 trillion tons of methane locked away in gas hydrates on the outer edges of the Earth’s continents, and the Department of Energy has estimated that the commercial development of just 1 percent of the U.S.

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