Sentences with phrase «much methane»

This is a tribute to industry leadership and the incentive for individual companies to capture as much methane as possible during production to deliver more of it to consumers.

They have built up so much methane that its release could cause massive global warming or the planet's next big extinction.

But no one knows how much methane escapes, nor its potential effect on regional or global temperatures.

These fears can not be confirmed without knowing how much methane spills into the atmosphere.

All feasible and available technology was used to eliminate as much methane as possible.

The results could help to improve estimates of how much methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from oceans.

These fears can not be confirmed without knowing how much methane spills into the atmosphere.

(So much methane comes out of the Black Sea that sailors have reported seeing lightning igniting it at the surface.)

After all, California's cap - and - trade system expanded to cover the oil - and - gas sector last year, which means an oil - and - gas company that exceeds its «cap» must then «trade» to extract as much methane from the atmosphere as it spewed into it.

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.

But because there's not much methane to begin with, it's not true that 1.33 x methane has more impact than a doubling of CO2 (we've already increased methane by well over this amount)... a doubling of methane doesn't even have nearly as much impact as a doubling of CO2.

Under some parts of Hydrate Ridge there is so much methane gas, says German geologist Gerhard Bohrman, that it is constantly bubbling up into the hydrate zone.

Given that there is as much Methane Hydrate than all the other fossil energies all together if we start to tap into this we will be cooked.

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.

I don't think you could store that much methane underwater.»

There is so much methane rising up under the southern summit of Hydrate Ridge that some of it bubbles all the way to the seafloor.

So much methane accumulated in stagnant seas at the end of the Permian, he argues, that when it finally erupted, it ignited, setting most of the planet on fire.

Marine geologist Karin Andreassen at CAGE, the study's lead author, says the data could hold lessons for retreating ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, although her team could not determine how much methane actually escaped into the atmosphere from blowouts in the distant past.

Indeed, increased methane emissions lead to decreased hydroxyl concentrations, but it isn't a straightforward calculation to determine exactly how much hydroxyl disappears, or how much methane lifetime increases due to that.

He says that estimates of how much methane sit beneath the Antarctic ice are theoretically plausible.

University of Alaska permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky said the models the USGS used in its projections for Alaska's future carbon storage do not capture the vast uncertainties about how much methane melting permafrost will emit.

This means the Aliso Canyon well is emitting 62 to 98 percent as much methane per hour as the entire Barnett Shale.

So they did not expect much methane to be produced by the thawing permafrost.

Using special analytical methods, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have determined how much methane originates from natural sources and how much is due to human activity.

Yes, meat will cost more and won't as widely available, but farm animals should all have real lives and humane deaths (and stop emitting so much methane into the atmosphere).

Howarth's question, then, was: How much methane does escape?

Similarly, one can easily compute how much methane releases would have to be from the gas sub-sector (e.g. due to leakage) to produce damages as large as those from coal.

Some projects don't deliver as many credits as promised; it turns out that landfills in the developing world don't yield as much methane gas as expected because poor people don't throw away as much food as well - fed Westerners do.

The amount of permafrost hydrate methane is not known very well, but it would not take too much methane, say 60 Gton C released over 100 years, to double atmospheric methane yet again.

But because there's not much methane to begin with, it's not true that 1.33 x methane has more impact than a doubling of CO2 (we've already increased methane by well over this amount)... a doubling of methane doesn't even have nearly as much impact as a doubling of CO2.

«There was so much methane in our water that when you turned the faucet on in the house, it was 90 percent air, the other 10 percent, maybe water,» he said.

But during one 60 - Martian - day episode, the rover sniffed out 10 times as much methane as background levels, finding about 7 parts per billion of the gas.

Ruppel says «there's been a lot of acrimony» over how much methane from hydrates would interact with the air.

«We know rather little about how much methane comes from different sources and how these have been changing in response to industrial and agricultural activities or because of climate events like droughts,» says Hinrich Schaefer, an atmospheric scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, who collaborates with Petrenko.

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

The study comes amid a national debate over whether and how much methane should be regulated.

The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.