Sentences with phrase «much gas escaped»

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But the pressure inside the widget is still much higher than the pressure in the beer around it, since the gas can escape only through a tiny hole.

Logically, say Howarth and other researchers interested in how much methane leaks to the atmosphere, a higher lost and unaccounted for percentage would mean more gas is escaping the system and warming the planet.

If there were too much UV light, no water could survive on the surface because the water molecules would break up and escape through the top of the atmosphere as hydrogen and oxygen gas.

«The weaker overturning circulation brings less naturally CO2 - rich deep waters to the surface, which limits how much of that gas in the deep ocean escapes to the atmosphere.

Previous research has measured emissions for much shorter periods of time and were unable to get as complete a picture of how much gas is escaping into the air.

And that's why a group of scientists set out to better estimate how much methane is escaping in the U.S. To do that, they surveyed more than 200 sets of field measurements and scientific papers from the past 20 years to learn whether increasing use of natural gas could prove a climate boon or bane.

With too much UV light, no water could persist on the surface because its molecules would break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas and escape through the atmosphere.

Observations revealed that Pluto manages to hold on to much of the gas around it, but some still escapes the dwarf planet's grasp.

Seawater sulfate is a problem for methane in two ways: Sulfate destroys methane directly, which limits how much of the gas can escape the oceans and accumulate in the atmosphere.

It's not totally about how much infrared from the surface that is blocked (currently about 90 % of surface emissions is absorbed by greenhouse gases), its also about the height within the atmosphere from which radiation escapes.

They do manage to score a couple of funny moments here and there, but the rest is such a wasteland of squandered ideas, it's hard to determine if you are laughing because it's genuinely funny or because you've been holding back so much laughter along the way that they escape out of you on accident like trapped gas.

The newer escapes are much better at gas efficiency.

1) Greenhouse gasses absorb infrared radiation in the atmosphere and re-emit much of it back toward the surface, thus warming the planet (less heat escapes; Fourier, 1824).

Of course BP has run through all other options now for stopping the oil and gas flow (it still plans one more method to catch much of the escaping oil); does that mean conventional blasts might end up back on the table?

He estimated that as much as 8 percent of the methane in shale gas leaks into the air during the lifetime of a hydraulic shale gas well — up to twice what escapes from conventional gas production.

Melting permafrost will emit methane, and methane is an ultra-potent greenhouse gas, but scientists do not think so much it will escape in the coming century.

They were allowed to return within 12 hours of the leak, but there are still questions about how much natural gas escaped, and whether nearby soil and water were contaminated.

The reality is that even in the wildly inconceivable event that every single electricity power plant in the United States were to shut down, too many greenhouse gases still would escape into the atmosphere from around the world for the U.S. action to make much of a difference, as this graphic suggests.

But this new study estimates that as much as 8 % of all methane in shale gas escapes into the atmosphere - and methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas.

The 3.6 Tcf of lost natural gas across the world would rank as the world's seventh largest natural gas producer, with nearly as much escaped gas globally as Norway's total production in 2012.