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Well at least the SpaceX Raptor engines won't be running out of fuel anytime soon.

• henearkr 6y ago
  (disclaimer: I know you're joking, sorry to answer so seriously ^^) The fact it is released does not mean that it is captured (by humans). Actually, any project to capture all of methane clathrate (because capturing all of it is the only way to preventing it melting and leaking) would be so titanic, really impossible, or very very difficult. Yes we agree, Musk will never run out of methane. But the Earth will quickly run out of capacity to process it when it's released, accelerating the greenhouse effect, that's the real limiting factor.
  • usrusr 6y ago
    An impossibly titanic project, sure. But as long as we are burning hydrocarbons that would have happily stayed in the ground ever after, switching all that combustion to hydrocarbons that would escape one way or the other anyways would be a major win.
    • henearkr 6y ago
      Of course, but even better would be to manage to reverse the global warming and have these clathrates remain frozen...