Sentences with phrase «in coal beds»

Using CO2 to displace methane (CH4) adsorbed in coal beds provides a two for one bargain.
Abandoned coal mine methane capture: Coal mines are a major source of methane emissions in the US, as methane gas naturally exists in coal beds and is released into the atmosphere through mine shafts.
Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»
People have reported fires in coal beds close to the earth's surface for thousands of years — in fact, Australia's Burning Mountain, once thought to be a volcano, sits atop a coal seam that has been on fire for some six millennia.

Not exact matches

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at nighIn India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at nighin the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at nighin the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at nighin some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at nighin the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.
The stillness of the night, the surrounding darkness, and the gleams of that large and brightly burning bed of coals in the overhanging tree - tops, gave to the whole scene a weird character which awoke all the enthusiasm of their untutored natures.
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.
By 350 million years ago, the coal beds laid down in the carboniferous period speak of a world covered in lush greenery, too.
Coal, as any mining museum in Cape Breton will tell you (and there are several now), is the dark fruit of ancient garden beds, the carbonized remains of swampy jungles that covered much of the Earth 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.
But if we decide to «opt in» and develop a strategy to achieve a secure, diverse energy future incorporating the undoubted strengths of the marketplace, we could sleep secure in our beds knowing that disruption of gas, oil or even coal supplies are not going to leave us in the dark.
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.
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.
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.
So clearly, there is in fact some amount of extracted coal bed methane that would otherwise be nowhere near release, and therefore not eligible for GHG reduction credits.
In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.
From U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625â $ «C, 2001: «Sufficient high - quality, thick, bituminous resources remain in [major Appalachian Basin] coal beds and coal zones to last for the next one to two decades at current production.
However, braising meat over a bed of hot coals served on tin plates in front of a roaring fire would be heaven.....
single, no children, im a boss at coal river coal mines, love to find a sexy girl, im into sports, i allways lend a helping hand, im funny, easy to get along with, good in bed, and would make a good man for a god women.
They held warm, not red - hot, coals, and were placed in bed before one turned in and removed before the sleeper lay down.
I only include the IMDB error write - up here because I did honest - to - goodness notice it myself: Elizabeth Swann's maid fills a bed warmer with red - hot coals and then places the warmer at the feet of Elizabeth, who is lying in bed.
Their act is being undermined by a rival, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), who attracts a younger demographic with such numbers as not only walking across a bed of coals but lying on them for an entire night, and ultimately by drilling a hole in his head, allegedly through the one angle that does not destroy the brain.
The coal - bed methane land Utah received in Drunkard's Wash has generated $ 1.5 million a month for more than a decade.
The early Schult models, built in the 1930s, were more practical than plush, containing such necessities as coal heating stoves, portable water tanks, sofa beds and dinette chairs.
Located on the 21st floor, an urban oasis high in the sky; this spacious one bedroom suite features west facing views including Stanley Park & Coal Harbour and 800 square feet of absolute luxury with two full bathrooms, King size bed and double sofa - bed.
In order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their laboIn order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their laboin a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their labor.
Jannis Kounellis explores the process of creating environments using everyday materials such as soil, coal, stones, hessian sacks, fire, live animals, bed frames and doorways in a solo exhibition at Blain Southern Berlin.
So clearly, there is in fact some amount of extracted coal bed methane that would otherwise be nowhere near release, and therefore not eligible for GHG reduction credits.
If those interpretations are correct, then I'm thinking the burden of this discussion is that the authors think that «thermogenic» carbon is necessary to account for the PETM — in line with the somewhat well - known idea of volcanic combustion of coal beds, as mentioned a couple of times in Mark Lynas's «Six Degrees.»
This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.
Moreover, another set of cancer - causing chemicals found in similar wastewater associated with coal - bed methane mining was not observed.
China, for example, is still struggling to tap its coal bed methane and other sources of gas, and a viable large - scale business model for gas doesn't fully exist in that country.
Coal bed methane is produced from many wells specifically drilled for that purpose in the area, with about 12 billion cubic feet produced in 2012 in Greene and Washington counties.
Not coal dug out of the ground, nor»em bedded» emissions in international exports.
Re: # 3, a big difference between horizontal drilling to exploit coal - bed methane production (which is what I think you mean) and EGS is that in CBM, the valuable item is the gas, not the water, which comes both from surface sources, and from the natural gas / coal resource.
The USA invested vast sums into coal bed methane in the energy crisis in the 1970's.
Hypothetical resources (coal): Undiscovered coal resources in beds that may reasonably be expected to exist in known mining districts under known geologic conditions.
Auger mine: A surface mine in which the coal bed is removed by means of a large diameter drill.
Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →
Gazprom's (OTCQX: GZPFY) reaction to shale gas, until recently, has been to dismiss it as a short lived phenomenon while pushing ahead as hard as possible with the extraction of coal bed methane and going full steam ahead with the game changing vista of Arctic oil and gas, which I will look at in a separate blog.
Fortunately, however, it finds that only around 17 % of LNG fed by North American Shale gas or Australian coal - bed methane is needed in a low demand scenario.
The following lava streams entered carbonate rocks and coal beds, from which they in turn released enormous amounts of CO2, perhaps equivalent to 3 trillion tonnes of pure carbon, or some 11 gigatonnes of CO2, a 2010 Nature Geoscience study estimates, quite suddenly switching the world from cooling to heating.
Moreover, a constant rain of debris in the form of particulate matter from burning forests and nitrogen oxides from the smoldering coal beds fertilized the ocean surface.
Although subbituminous coal has the second lowest energy content, large quantities are found in thick beds near the surface, resulting in low mining cost and, correspondingly, lower prices.
Then there's the «Pittsburgh coal bed,» the thickest and most extensive coal bed in the Appalachian Basin.
10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber waste that was too low quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.
Coal - bed methane is the gas found in coal seCoal - bed methane is the gas found in coal secoal seams.
The ads remind us (accurately) that half the electricity in America comes from coal, then shows images of little girls getting tucked into bed at night or Little Leaguers playing ball under the lights.
«Coal bed» methane (natural gas) distributors now need to take the land of Ohio farmers in order to pipe the natural gas eastward, to market.
By analogy of the development of coal - bed methane, hydrates could supply order 10 % of our production in order 10 years, is what I've read.
«Sufficient high - quality, thick, bituminous resources remain in [Appalachian Basin] coal beds and coal zones to last for the next one to two decades at current production.»
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