Sentences with phrase «generated by a methane»

The carbon credits are generated by a methane flaring project.

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Gatherers take the food to local composting centers, reducing the amount of methane generated by landfills.

Certified farms must reduce their carbon footprint by providing cattle with an easy to digest diet — generating less methane emissions — treating manure and protecting the trees in pastures and neighboring forested areas.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

Manure monofermentation contributes to the reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases in two ways, being by reducing the methane volume on the one hand and by generating green energy on the other,» ter Avest said.

An environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks, the feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

Methane - generating bacteria might be living off hydrogen produced by rock, as studies kilometers down in South African gold mines have shown.

Methane, for example, is generated primarily by bacterial decomposition of organic matter — particularly in such places as landfills, flooded rice paddies, and theguts of cattle and termites — and by the burning of wood.

Methane could also have a nonbiological source, perhaps generated by chemical reactions between water and minerals in Martian rocks or from reactions between the sun's ultraviolet radiation and cosmic dust.

Some even argue that vertical farms could save energy by recycling wastewater and composting non-edible plant material to generate methane energy.

In fact, formate may be used by modern day microbes to generate methane in the subsurface biosphere.

Once there it will produce propellant on Mars itself, either by distilling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mixing it with hydrogen brought from Earth to generate methane and oxygen or by electrolyzing water from the permafrost to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

Methane could be generated by bacteria, although it could also come from geological processes.

Although astronomers detected methane on Titan as early as 1944, it was only the additional discovery of nitrogen 36 years later that generated the immense interest in this cold and distant moon [see «Titan,» by Tobias Owen; Scientific American, February 1982].

Consequently, the methanogens generated less methane as they were starved by the end of this period around Year 2.1 billion.

The process captures and sequesters the carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide generated naturally during biological methane production, accelerating renewable methane production rates by 10 percent to 30 percent while sequestering carbon dioxide.

If hydrothermal chemical reactions are indeed responsible for the molecular hydrogen, that means the methane previously detected by Cassini might be generated from carbon dioxide (also detected by Cassini) through a reaction with hydrogen.

Still, the researchers did not expect that the methane they were seeking would be generated by iron - only nitrogenase in this organism.

Greenhouse gases (which prevent dispersal of heat generated by the planet's surface, after this receiving solar radiation) of higher concentration on Earth are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH 4), nitrous oxide (N2O), Compounds of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and water vapor (H2O).

Their ideas ranged from the Power Nap, a mattress pad - like device that captures thermal and kinetic energy while a person is sleeping, to a dome that removes methane gas generated by cows.

Much of the methane generated however, is sequestered by the fractured Devonian Antrim shale.

For the PETM in particular, the temperature proxies seem to require more warming than a ~ 1 - 2000 Gt C methane spike would generate (with the climate forcing agent being the CO2, as documented by its longevity).

The evening hours electric demand should be provided from generators run on landfill methane and electricity generated by tidal energy.

It seems possible that those tens of thousands of circular depressions were generated by similar methane gas eruptions, followed by melting of ice and methane hydrate and subsidence to enlarge the initial gas eruption craters.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The AgSTAR program, part of the EPA, estimated that the nearly 300 farms have potential to profit from bio-digesters and could generate nearly 300,000 megawatt hours of energy annually while simultaneously cutting methane emissions by 31,000 tons.

Primarily this means carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide generated by driving motor vehicles and burning coal, oil and gas to generate electricity,...

The digester expected to be operational at the Burrows Hall Farm by early this summer is the first in South Carolina, although Santee Cooper is already capturing methane from landfills to generate power.

The methane digester will be built on a Williamsburg County hog farm and the electricity generated will be used by customers of Santee Cooper, the state - owned utility.

Methane from natural gas leaks in oil and gas production, for example, has a different signature from methane generated by bacteria in a cow's stomach or similar methane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other weMethane from natural gas leaks in oil and gas production, for example, has a different signature from methane generated by bacteria in a cow's stomach or similar methane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other wemethane generated by bacteria in a cow's stomach or similar methane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other wemethane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other wetlands.

After accounting for all the methane leakage factors mentioned by the Post, the NETL study clearly demonstrates that life cycle GHG emissions from LNG exports from the U.S. are significantly less than emissions from coal generated electricity in China and in Europe.

This will allow immediate leverage of the low cost of natural gas, along with easy conversion to light oils (free of «corrosive components») generated by cyanobacterial processes (such as Joule Unlimited's), or methane from conversion of solar / electrolytic hydrogen and atmospheric CO2 when either / both of those processes become cost - competitive.

In order to remain eligible to generate credits under the compliance offset protocol for Mine Methane Capture, a project must be listed as compliance offset project on an OPR by February 28, 2015.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.

These factors include, accounting for non-CO2 gases generated by the combustion of aviation fuel (i.e. sulphur and methane), flying through certain types of clouds, and even flying at night.

The micro-organism generates methane by using carbon dioxide and hydrogen from the bacteria it lives alongside,» Mr Woodcroft said.

Beginning in 1994, a local NGO called Bio-tech pioneered the development of their «integrated waste recycling plant,» where large amounts of organic waste generated by the markets, slaughter houses, and restaurant kitchens are treated and converted into methane (cooking gas) and fertilizer.