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71Scientists are always on the lookout for alternative sources of energy. Today were going to discuss one thats so plentiful they say it could supply more energy than all the coal and oil in the world. Its found in something called gas hydrate and, believe it or not, thats a kind of ice. Thats right. But the water in this ice was way down below the Earths surface when it was frozen, so it was under a lot of pressure. And trapped inside the crystals of ice are individual molecules of methane—thats whats in natural gas. All this makes gas hydrate pretty strange stuff. If you touch a match to a piece of this ice, itll burst into flame. And when geologists bring a chunk of it up to the surface to study at normal air pressure and temperature, gas hydrate begins to hiss and bubble, and in less than half an hour, the ice melts and the methane inside escapes into the air. Now, as you might guess, this can make gas hydrate kind of hard for miners to handle. And then theres the problem of where its located in frozen arctic regions or in ocean waters off the Atlantic coast, and up to a mile down. Environmentalists warn that mining it could even be disastrous. Offshoredrilling could allow seawater to seep down into the huge icy deposits and release tons of methane up into the atmosphere. And methane, our listeners may recall, is a greenhouse gas that could really worsen the problem of global warming. So, gas hydrate may offer some interesting possibilities. But, with all these drawbacks, Im not going to hold my breath waiting for it to fuel my furnace. 【生词摘录】lookout: n.［C］留神关注hydrate: n. ［C］氢氧化物，水合物crystal: n.［C］水晶，晶体methane:n.［C］甲烷，沼气match: n. ［C］火柴hiss: v. 发出尖锐的咝咝声bubble: v. 起泡，冒泡arctic: adj. 北极的environmentalist: n. ［C］环境保护论者disastrous: adj. 灾难性的offshore: adj. 近海的drilling: n. ［C］钻井greenhouse: n. ［C］温室drawback: n.［C］缺点，障碍furnace: n.［C］炉子72Today, I want to talk about the Cariboogold rush of 1858, which began when gold was discovered in the frontier town of Quesnel Forks in the