Methane Hydrates and SSPS

Methane hydrates, http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html , and Solar Satellites Power Stations, http://www.ssi.org/sps.html, both offer the promise of a lot of power, and could perhaps free the USA from importing oil, but neither are proven in the sense that power has been delivered. Mining the sea bed, like installing SSPS, only seemseasy those who have not considered the engineering and legal details.As discussed in the gas-hydrates reference above, methane is a green house gas and if released,from an impact, volcano or perhaps by global warming, could create an environmental disaster. Mining Earth threatening asteroids could also be argued to protect us from impact disasters,as mining the hydrates could also protect us. Would congress be open to even hearing this? Would George W. Bush? Where is free enterprise? I givea couple of public lecturesper month to variousgroups, and teach a university course on Colonizing Space. I don't know what else to do. Communicating with you-all is interesting; I wonder if it might help to have others of you who actually do things other than write e-mail to this group tell the rest of us about those things and if you think they help. Sincerely, Jay Huebner