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Re: America's future energy source?



Sandy Perle wrote:

>   ``The 35 billion tonnes of methane carbon on the Blake ridge
> is a quantity of methane that could meet the 1996 United States'
> natural gas consumption rate for the next 105 years,'' 

Then what?  How about all the CO2 that burning methane would put into
the atmosphere (if you believe in the greenhouse effect)?  Nuclear is
still better environmentally and costwise.  Al Tschaeche xat@inel.gov