Sentences with phrase «deep coal beds»

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

As a result, a 68 - day research expedition to study the deep coal bed biosphere off Shimokita, Japan, has been canceled.

Not exact matches

This had been set on fire and burned until there was left a bed of burning coals, some two or three feet deep, that did not emit a particle of smoke.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

The shift to low emissions is stalled and is counted as a victory for the movers and shakers of a nation virtually floating on a deep bed of coal.