Sentences with phrase «free methane»

Free methane gas trapped under the hydrate layer is no easier to tap.

The article mentions nothing about the amount of energy that it takes to free the methane from the rock where it is held.

Methane is an extremely efficient greenhouse gas which may contribute to enhanced global warming when free in the atmosphere, and such free methane, would then be considered a pollutant rather than a useful energy resource.

Under most frozen hydrate deposits is a layer of free methane gas occupying the pore spaces in the sediment.

A similar story applies to giant methane belches changing the climate — as knowledge of the huge stores of frozen and free methane in the sea floor was first developed, and the carbon frozen in Arctic soils, we couldn't quantify the possibility of a large, rapid release.

Permafrost keeps the free methane gas in the sediments.