不是只有页岩气是一种新的储备能源：在砂岩中的“致密地层天然气”还有在煤层里的甲烷(一种能在矿井里杀死金丝鸟的气体)也十分有前景。

Nor is shale gas the only new sort of reserve: "tight gas" in sandstones and coal-bed methane (the sort of gas that used to kill canaries down mines) are also promising.

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更正：在昆士兰煤层发现的天然气能够支撑一个拥有一百万人口的城市五千年的使用量，而不是之前所说的一千年。

Correction: Natural gas found in Queensland's coal seams should be able to power a city of 1m people for 5, 000 years, not 1, 000 years as we first stated. This was corrected on June 9th 2011.

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在中国和印度这样煤炭储量丰富而天然气稀缺的国家，开发煤层气的潜力是巨大的。 研究公司Westhall Capital的Cyrus Mewawalla表示。

In countries such as China and India, which have huge coal reserves but little gas, the potential is enormous, says Cyrus Mewawalla of Westhall Capital, a research firm.

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