One day I was cooking lunch over the natural gas stove in our house. I became mesmerized by the beautiful blue flame and started wondering about the story of natural gas. So I started doing some research and would often comes across statements like this: One of the most famous of these natural gas flames was found in ancient Greece, on Mount Parnassus around 1000 B.C. A goat herdsman came across what looked like a ‘burning spring’, a flame rising from a fissure in the rock. The Greeks, believing it to be of divine origin, built a temple on...