Sentences with phrase «form of methane»

Zewail's team used a laser to fire a pulse of photons into a vacuum chamber filled with a heavy form of methane containing two iodine atoms.

Scientists have also raised the possibility that global warming could release methane from very large ancient carbon reservoirs such as permafrost and gas hydrates — ice - like forms of methane in the sediments at the bottom of the ocean — that become less stable as temperatures increase.

Most farm - related emissions come in the form of methane (cattle belching) and nitrous oxide (from fertilizers and the like).

The result of this sustainable practice is renewable energy in the form of methane gas, carbon dioxide, and a small amount of hydrogen sulfite.

To make the tarry polymers, he says, most of the atmospheric carbon would have to be in the form of methane, the basic subunit of the polymers.

«DemoSNG shows the way to storing green power and transporting it in our gas grids in the form of methane,» Thomas Kolb, Head of the Engler - Bunte Institute of KIT, emphasizes.

For example, it might be converted decentrally with the carbon dioxide produced by the about 800,000 biogas facilities and stored in the form of methane.

On December 16, NASA announced another potential whiff of Martian life in the form of methane sniffed by the rover Curiosity.

Too cold for liquid water, the only liquid on Titan is in the form of methane — any water is frozen rock - solid.

This form of methane production might, for example, help shape microbial community interactions in marine sediments, in the soil, and in microbiomes living in humans and animals.

If the released carbon were initially in the form of methane, it would have been oxidized to CO2 within a few decades, but as CO2 it apparently stuck around, warming the deep ocean, for a long time before it went away.

Early on much of it will be in the form of methane.

And much of it is expected to be released in the form of methane, which is 20 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

More than half of China's non-CO2 GHG emissions come in the form of methane, which can trap 28 times as much heat as carbon dioxide on a per metric tonne basis.

Intriguingly, the rate of carbon release (in the form of methane) into the atmosphere during the PETM was similar to the rate at which we are pumping it out today as CO2.

This has never happened before because the sea ice never retreated very much in the summer and the water temperature could not rise above zero because of the ice cover... The permafrost is acting as a cap for a very large amount of methane (CH4), which is sitting in the sediments underneath in the form of methane hydrates.

Carbon emission in the form of methane rather than CO2 further worsens the impact of dams under the Paris accord because the impact of this gas is concentrated in the time window for achieving the target.

A hulking 10 - year - old plant on the outskirts of Kristianstad uses a biological process to transform the detritus into biogas, a form of methane.

Schuur and Abbott (2011) polled 41 experts on permafrost decay who estimated that about 3 % of the carbon released from the permafrost will be in the form of methane.

Compared to this figure, the 8 Teragrammes of carbon in the form of methane released in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is relatively small.

Natural emissions of the gas make up about 40 % of the 440 Teragrammes of carbon emitted in the form of methane each year; the bulk of these natural emissions come from wetlands.

Dozens of Titan's lakes individually have the equivalent of at least this much energy in the form of methane and ethane.

Well, researchers suspect that it is a key player in global warming by releasing vast amount of carbon from permafrost soils in the form of methane, a powerful heat - trapping gas in the Earth's atmosphere.

Releasing even a portion of this carbon into the atmosphere, in the form of methane or carbon dioxide, would have a significant impact on Earth's climate.