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Colo. School of Mines Receives Grant for Energy Development Research

by KREX News Room
by Cori Coffin

Story Created: Sep 2, 2012 at 11:41 PM MDT

Story Updated: Sep 3, 2012 at 7:35 AM MDT

GOLDEN, Colo.- Colorado School of Mines has received $225,000 to research what could one day be a potential energy source.

The money is for research on how to get energy from advanced methane hydrates, which have natural gas locked inside.

Researchers have been able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates in Alaska.

Work is still needed to see if it can be done commercially.

The Energy Department said Friday that School of Mines will be conducting laboratory experiments to determine how methane hydrates can be detected.

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solarguy said on Monday, Sep 3 at 7:04 AM

They should be working on solar development, not something else that is going to hurt Mother Nature. I smell a rat.

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