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And, Methane Hydrates! An enormous reserve of natural gas, estimated 6X all the oil we've ever drilled, waiting to be tapped.

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I hope not. Especially if it means strip mining the ocean floor. Oh, and that CO2 thing as well.

Fossil fuels should be incentivized away as quickly as possible.

Of course, but it'll be very attractive at first. So handy for port cities, which are among the largest cities in the world.

And no strip-mining fortunately. Just drilling, pump down some warm water, hydrates dissolve and natural gas starts flowing. Pipeline to land and voila.

The problem is that this slush methane is going to melt with global warming and is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

There are oceans of it under the seafloor.

Yep. Let's leave 'em there.

We need to decarbonize as quickly as possible.

At what price?

Every time someone says "Fracking gives us 100 years of reserves", they always omit at what price. If most of that is cost-effective at $120 or $140 / barrel, is it really fair to suggest that's a good reserve?

Dunno about fracking. But Methane Hydrate is a drilling/warm water deal which seems pretty tame. The Japanese are doing it already (they have no other energy reserves).

...and if it leaks, the methane simply cools and forms hydrates again. Which has been happening on the ocean floor for 1B years.

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