methane Ice fuel of the future?

The sedimentary methane hydrate reservoir probably contains 2–10 times the currently known reserves of conventional natural gas. This represents a potentially important future source of hydrocarbon fuel. Methane hydrate, sometimes referred to as ice that burns, is a strange lemon looking material that exists naturally in huge quantities in a number of places around the world, and locks up vast quantities of methane, the primary component of natural gas. Scientists have estimated that there may be somewhere in excess of 1,000 billion tons of methane hydrate in existence worldwide.