Methane holds a lot of promise as a fuel source---there's enough in two deposits off the coast of South Carolina to power the United States for a century---but it's difficult to store and transport. Now chemists in England have come up with a simple way to turn the natural gas into a sugar-like powder that would be cheaper and easier to store than current methods allow, the Discovery Channel reports. The researchers turned the gas to a powder simply by mixing it with water filled with fine particles of silica.
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