For the first time, Chinese engineers have successfully extracted natural gas from icy deposits beneath the South China Sea.
中国工程师首次成功地从中国南海下方的冰冻沉积物中提取出天然气。
Just last year, China's government announced that geologists had found new reserves of methane hydrate - also known as 'flammable ice' - and now it looks like they've managed to harvest some of it, bringing the world a step closer to harnessing this untapped energy source.
就在去年,中国政府宣布,地质学家发现了新的储备甲烷水合物,也就是“可燃冰”,如今他们似乎已设法获取了一部分可燃冰,使世界离使用这种未利用的能源又近了一步。
"If gas is present at sufficient concentrations beneath the seafloor within the gas hydrate stability field, you'd expect it to be in the form of hydrates," New Zealand-based geoscientist, Ingo Pecher from the University of Auckland said.
“如果在天然气水合物稳定地带的海底之下,天然气充分浓缩,你会期望它呈水合物的形态,”来自奥克兰大学的新西兰地质科学家英格·佩彻说道。
But that stability field is easily disrupted if you change either pressure or temperature, releasing all that trapped methane into the water. That's why successfully extracting gas from methane hydrates is such a big deal for engineers.
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