Sentences with phrase «deep coal seams»

Having worked in the coal industry as a geologist and mining engineer, I have considered some of those massive, exceptionally deep coal seams (some in the Powder River Basin get up to 80 feet thick) and I wonder how warm and luxurious it would have to be to support plantlife that would accumulate such massive amounts of carbon.

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

Not exact matches

Strike's ambitious 2000m well is expected to be the deepest pure coal seam gas well drilled in the southern hemisphere — and possibly the world.

Momentum is growing worldwide to look closely at the idea, a 150 - year - old technique of igniting seams of coal deep under the ground to produce electrical power or chemicals.

One cat repository, found by farmers in 1888, was reported to have «a stratum thicker than most coal seams, 10 to 20 cats deep.»

As mines become deeper or use coal seams in areas that have already been mined, the risk to mine workers will increase.

Scientists have also found bacteria living thousands of feet deep in coal seams this completely throws off the C12 / C13 ratios of coal.

In Australia carbon dioxide could theoretically be sequestered in depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquifers.

How is it that drilling kilometers deep into the earth's crust on some of the least hospitable places on Earth to extract oil, or levelling mountains simply to get at a coal seam presents no problem at all, yet installing a wind turbine or solar panel is fraught with «difficulty»?