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Scientists are always on the lookout for alternative sources of energy.

科學(xué)家總是在尋找替代能源。

Today we\'re going to discuss one that\'s so plentiful they say it could supply more energy than all the coal and oil in the world.

今天我們將探討一種如此充足的，他們說能夠提供比世界上所有的煤炭和石油更多的能量。

It\'s found in something called gas hydrate and, believe it or not, that\'s a kind of ice.

它被發(fā)現(xiàn)于某種叫做氣體水合物(的東東)而且，信不信由你，那是一種冰。

That\'s right. But the water in this ice was way down below the Earth\'s surface when it was frozen, so it was under a lot of pressure.

是的，但是在這種冰里的水在當(dāng)它結(jié)冰時(shí)會(huì)降到地球表面下很深(的地方)，所以它會(huì)在很大的壓力之下(所以壓力很大)。

And trapped inside the crystals of ice are individual molecules of methane --- that\'s what\'s in natural gas.

被困在冰的晶體中的是單個(gè)的甲烷分子——這就是天然氣。

All this makes gas hydrate pretty strange stuff.

所有這些(狀況)使得氣體水合物(成為)很詭異的東西。

If you touch a match to a piece of this ice, it\'ll burst into flame.

如果你把一根火柴接觸到這樣的一塊冰上，它將一下子燃燒起來。

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.

當(dāng)?shù)刭|(zhì)學(xué)家把一大塊這種冰帶到(地球)表面上來研究時(shí)，在正常氣壓和溫度下，氣體水合物開始嘶嘶冒泡，在不到半個(gè)小時(shí)(的時(shí)間里)，冰就融化了，里面的甲烷逸入空氣中。

Now, as you might guess, this can make gas hydrate kind of hard for miners to handle.

現(xiàn)在，像你們可能猜到的，這使氣體水合物對(duì)于礦工來說有點(diǎn)難以處理。

And then there\'s the problem of where it\'s located in frozen arctic regions or in ocean waters off the Atlantic coast, and up to a mile down.

然后就是它所處的位置的問題，在冰凍的北極地區(qū)，或者在離開大西洋海岸達(dá)一英里的海水中。

Environmentalists warn that mining it could even be disastrous.

環(huán)境專家警告說開采它甚至可能是災(zāi)難性的。

Offshore drilling could allow seawater to seep down into the huge icy deposits and release tons of methane up into the atmosphere.

離岸鉆探可能會(huì)然海水滲入龐大的冰凍沉積物，并且釋放無數(shù)的甲烷上來進(jìn)入空氣中。

And methane, our listeners may recall, is a greenhouse gas that could really worsen the problem of global warming.

甲烷，咱們聽眾應(yīng)該能想起來，是一種溫室氣體，真的可以使全球變暖的問題更加惡化。

So, gas hydrate may offer some interesting possibilities.

因此，氣體水合物可能提供一些令人關(guān)注的發(fā)展可能性。

But, with all these drawbacks, I\'m not going to hold my breath waiting for it to fuel my furnace.

但是，隨著所有的這些缺點(diǎn)，我不會(huì)屏住我的呼吸來等待它燃燒我的爐子。

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