Sentences with phrase «as much methane»

The Guardian gives us a glimpse: Two separate scientists studying the issue have found the low - oxygen areas around the Gulf Gusher.Half as Much Methane Spewing Out as Oil Samantha Joye, from the University of Georgia, says there's up to 50 % as much methane and other gases being spewed from the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon as there is oil.

This is a tribute to industry leadership and the incentive for individual companies to capture as much methane as possible during production to deliver more of it to consumers.

The bacteria in the wallaby's gut digests plant material without producing as much methane as the gut bacteria of other mammals Read More

This means the Aliso Canyon well is emitting 62 to 98 percent as much methane per hour as the entire Barnett Shale.

Isakower said at a time when oil and natural gas production has risen dramatically, methane emissions have fallen because of industry leadership, investment in new technologies and incentives to capture as much methane as possible for delivery to consumers:

Given that there is as much Methane Hydrate than all the other fossil energies all together if we start to tap into this we will be cooked.

These efforts appeared to miss emissions progress made by industry — which wants to capture as much methane as possible for customers — and the benefits of EPA and state regulations.

Some projects don't deliver as many credits as promised; it turns out that landfills in the developing world don't yield as much methane gas as expected because poor people don't throw away as much food as well - fed Westerners do.

People farts don't produce nearly as much methane as cow farts (and especially burps) do — most human farts actually contain no methane at all (Miller et al 1982).

Twice as Much Methane Escaping Arctic Seafloor

Has anyone commented that the past claims of «shallow hydrates» would imply the presence about 50x as much methane in the shallow sediments — compared to methane in water or air or sediment not in clathrate form?

Some scientists now believe that anaerobic methanogens began to prosper and eventually filled Earth's atmosphere with nearly 600 times as much methane as they do today.

They found that, in some cases, oxygenated soils contained 10 times as much methane as nonoxygenated soils.

While monitoring two Arctic thaw lakes for 13 months, Walter's team found that they gave off five times as much methane as previously estimated.

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.

U.S. Geological Survey researchers estimate that the Blake Ridge alone, off the South Carolina — Georgia coast, contains 30 times as much methane as Americans consume in natural gas every year.

All feasible and available technology was used to eliminate as much methane as possible.

Not exact matches

So far, the Obama Administration is giving the agricultural community a pass, even though it emits as much or more methane than the oil and gas industry.

Yes, meat will cost more and won't as widely available, but farm animals should all have real lives and humane deaths (and stop emitting so much methane into the atmosphere).

No greenhouse gas has landed the oil and gas industry as much in the crosshairs of the federal government as methane.

In Alaska and eastern Siberia, she and her colleagues are cataloging the Arctic freezer's carbon contents, trying to understand how much will be converted to methane as the ice melts.

As temperatures warm, the Arctic permafrost thaws and pools into lakes, where bacteria feast on its carbon - rich material — much of it animal remains, food, and feces from before the Ice Age — and churn out methane, a heat trapper 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

For example, sequestrating short - lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon, yields much faster reductions in global warming compared to reductions in CO2.

Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.

A 386,000 - square - mile tract of permafrost in Siberia contains as much as 55 billion tons of potential methane, Walter says — 10 times the amount currently in the atmosphere.

«Cutting back only on soot and methane emissions will help the climate, but not as much as previously thought,» said the study's lead author, climate researcher Steve Smith of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Decomposing submerged vegetation burps methane — a greenhouse gas which traps 25 times as much heat as CO2 over a century.

He is reluctant to speculate as to how much methane may be released into the ocean should the domes collapse entirely and abruptly.

Taken together, they also provide a potential explanation for the so - called memory effect — the fact that «aqueous solutions in contact with methane form solid methane hydrate at a much faster rate if they have already undergone a methane hydrate formation - decomposition cycle,» said Alavi, almost as if the hydrate «remembers» its previous state.

Potentially catastrophic amounts of methane lie trapped as so - called burning ices, or methane hydrates, in the permafrost beneath arctic tundra — as much as 10,000,000 teragrams still trapped compared with just 5,000 teragrams in the atmosphere today, according to Simpson.

The impactor's kinetic energy is transformed into heat, which melts the permafrost, releasing methane and water vapor and expanding the size of the resulting crater by as much as a quarter.

Although the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is much higher, at around 385 parts per million, methane is a worry as it is much better than carbon dioxide at locking in heat from solar radiation.

There is so much methane that, as it freezes instantaneously to form hydrate, it draws all the water out of the seafloor ooze and dries it out completely — and often there is methane left over, trapped as large bubbles in the porous hydrate.

With compost, the model calculates how much methane is produced over time in landfills as organic materials decay.

Most biologists typically recognize three official branches of life: the eukaryotes, which are organisms whose cells have a nucleus; bacteria, the single - celled organisms that may or may not possess a nucleus; and archaea, an ancient line of microbes without nuclei that may make up as much as a third of all life on Earth (See «Will the Methane Bubble Burst?»

Concern about a possible eruption has grown since 2010, when research cruises over the shelf by Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, both now at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, found plumes of methane as much as a kilometre wide bubbling to the surface.

A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.

Since methane can cause about 20 times as much atmospheric warming as carbon dioxide, curbing methane would help slow global warming.

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

Methane, when assessed over the course of a century, warms the planet about 25 times as much as the same mass of carbon dioxide does.

In a separate study, Katey Walter, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, showed that much of this buried carbon may emerge as methane, a greenhouse gas some 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Reducing emissions of soot from vehicles and methane from pipelines may not help reduce rates of global warming as much as earlier studies have suggested, new research suggests.

But based on that data, they estimate that emissions from abandoned wells represents as much as 10 percent of methane from human activities in Pennsylvania — about the same amount as caused by current oil and gas production.

These ice - like water and methane structures encapsulate so much methane that many researchers view them as both a potential energy resource and an agent for environmental change.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

Methane remains in the atmosphere one - tenth as long as CO2 — about a decade — but traps 20 times as much heat.

«Under a 20 - year period, fossil fuel methane is 87 times as much as CO2, over a 100 - year period it's 36 times as much.»

But that study said it is uncertain how much hydrates contribute to the methane emissions, as opposed to other sources such as the decomposition of organic matter in permafrost as it thaws.

Methane turns out to be a major food item for sphagnum moss, accounting for as much as 15 % of the plant's carbon, the team reports 25 August in Nature.

The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate change — causing greenhouse gas.