Methane bubbles getting into the groundwater and exploding through the ground made the famous North Carolina bay lakes.The bubbles of explosive gas are all oriented the same way due to the Coriolis force

From The Kid

"The north west/south east orientation of the lakes could be due to the the west to east rotation of the Earth, commonly called the Coriolis Effect. The lake's fluids flow up from below and then onto the surface. Since the Earth is moving west to east, and the fluids are moving up the net effect is that the water moves in a south easterly direction. From another point of view, once the fluid has broken the surface it is no longer carried along with the dirt that formerly surrounded it. The Earth then rotates out from under the surface water, which results in the water flowing in the opposite direction. But since the ground around the lake is uneven and there are inertial effects from the Earth's rotation, the net direction of flow is south easterly. Therefore, the Coriolis Effect, together with the other constraints mentioned above, could account for the orientation of the lakes."

Anybody want some Hythane or something, or would you like some new lakes? People do so like their shore front property.

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Or we could make food out of it

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In theory, carbon emissions could be greatly reduced by using methane from a renewable source, such as biogas from farm waste or landfill sites. This would reduce emissions to levels comparable to those for feeds made from wheat or soya, for instance.

“Feeds that have lower carbon emissions, lower land use and lower water use are absolutely needed,” says Tom Cumberlege of the Carbon Trust, one of the authors of the report.

The catch is that there are no big and cheap sources of biogas. “It’s just not going to happen,” says Shaw. The US factory will use natural gas from a conventional source, not from fracking.

Or we could just get drunk and wait to blow up. First worlds last problems.