2009Sept2: Methane trapped under the ocean may already be escaping through sea floor vents at a much faster rate than previously believed, acccording to an MIT study led by Ruben Juanes, the ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (MIT, 2009).
Reference: MIT http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/methane-0902.html
Image Description: “This image at left shows underground methane gas as it begins to invade fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture. In the image at right, the blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded.” – MIT. Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Image Location: MIT http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/methane-0902.html Image Permission: This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. However, it is believed that the use of this work to illustrate the subject in question, Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, on Interlinked Challenges, hosted on servers in the United States by Michigan State University, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
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