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Japan warms to 'fire ice' potential
2013-03-12 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Japan has moved closer to unlocking a potential new energy source, after a research group extracted methane gas from frozen undersea deposits for the first time. Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence. It was announced a day after the second anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that crippled the country's atomic power industry and exposed...
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