Is That a Clathrate in Your Substrata?

US News & World Report (I just love elegant names) says there may be an energy source with more power than the entire Persian Gulf — right here in North America:

Oil production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be on hold for the moment. But 200 miles to the east, scientists from the United States, Canada, Japan, and other countries have set the stage for what could be a new era of Arctic fuel production, based on an exotic form of solidified natural gas called gas hydrate. This strange hybrid of fire and ice