Sentences with phrase «produced by methane»

Ozone values are modeled changes relative to 1980 from simulations with greenhouse gas (GHG) increases alone (blue), GHG increases and the additional water vapor produced by methane oxidation (red), and GHG increases with water vapor from both methane oxidation and increased transport from the troposphere (green).

«By studying Saturn's moon Titan, which although being an icy moon can be considered something like the Solar System's rocky planets, we have discovered rainstorms produced by methane rather than water, and we have found that Titan's meteorology has things in common with Earth's tropics,» said Del Genio.

The red spot at the north pole of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, may have been produced by methane from the dwarf planet's atmosphere.

The red spot at the north pole of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, may have been produced by methane from the dwarf planet's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

But methane gas, which is produced by, among other things, rotting garbage in the nation's landfills, is 22 times more potent a contributor to global warming.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

Kangaroos emit a fraction of the methane produced by sheep and cows, making them a much better choice for the climate - change conscious, Mr Ampt said.

The GWE anaerobic technology plant employed at the plant produces sufficient green energy (methane) from its closed anaerobic reactor to power a designated steam boiler and cut the brewery's overall energy consumption by about 15 per cent.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

«The quantities of methane produced by anaerobic digestion can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process,» says Mike Bambridge.

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.

Further calculations by Catling and his team conclude that no abiotic methane sources on a rocky planet could produce enough of the gas to counteract this process — whether it is volcanic outgassing from a planet's interior, chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents, even asteroid impacts.

The process also produces methane as a by - product, which Kuenen proposes to harvest and use as fuel.

The study also found a comprehensive climate policy (including methane) would produce more climate benefits by 2050 than if soot and methane were reduced alone.

Hydrates have shaped the history of our planet: by locking away methane produced in the earth's crust instead of allowing it to accumulate in the atmosphere, they helped to make the earth a hospitable place for life.

The research found that cutting soot and methane as described above produced an average temperature reduction of 0.16 degrees Celsius by 2050, which is substantially less than the 0.5 - degree reduction found in earlier studies.

Shortly prior to explosion, each pit had developed a viscous foam that stored and then expelled huge amounts of highly flammable methane, produced by bacteria in the pits.

Oxygen, which would quickly react out of Earth's atmosphere if it weren't continually produced by plants, is closer to a smoking gun, especially if it were seen together with methane.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

Microbes oxidase this methane as a source of energy and produce carbonate deposits as a by - product.

And an efficient, well run incinerator emits less carbon than is produced by letting the rubbish decompose and burning the methane.

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

high - fibre diets produce more methane gas in the large intestine than the low - fibre diet, suggesting that painful gut gas retention could be avoided by cutting back on high - fibre food

If even a small proportion of the methane they produce is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctions.

Any methane produced by organisms billions of years ago could be buried deep in the planet and periodically disturbed and vented to the surface through cracks, said mission scientist Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan.

Mootral («moo» and «neutral»), produced by Neem Biotech in Cardiff, Wales, contains a natural garlic extract — allicin — that when fed to cows and sheep limits the growth of certain methane - producing bacteria in the animals» digestive systems.

Our planet was once dominated by methane - producing microorganisms, resulting in an unusual combination of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would not have arisen naturally.

Orbiter will seek to solve mystery over whether methane is or was produced by microbial martians

From the products of a biomass gasification plant, i.e. hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, the DemoSNG pilot plant directly produces methane and water by means of a nickel catalyst (SNG operation).

For example, it might be converted decentrally with the carbon dioxide produced by the about 800,000 biogas facilities and stored in the form of methane.

The study, to be published in Water Resources Research on October 20, demonstrates that fractures in surrounding rock produced by the hydraulic fracturing process are able to connect to preexisting, abandoned oil and gas wells, common in fracking areas, which can provide a pathway to the surface for methane.

Methane is produced naturally, by processes including decomposition, and by human activity such as landfills and oil and gas production.

A strong suspicion was that the pale light of will - o» - the - wisp is caused by the ignition of methane, which is produced in large amounts by anaerobic microorganisms.

Methane is produced by cattle breeding and rice cultivation, as well as various other natural processes.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

By hosting fewer methane - producing microbes, the GM rice might alter the soil ecosystem in unknown ways, notes microbial ecologist Paul Bodelier of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology at Wageningen University in a commentary.

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.

Researchers created SUSIBA2 rice by introducing a single gene from barley into common rice, resulting in a plant that can better feed its grains, stems and leaves while starving off methane - producing microbes in the soil.

The geologist started to investigate the idea three years ago, and last year produced gas containing a greater proportion of methane by heating a mixture of large hydrocarbon molecules, hydrogen and carbon - rich rocks to 190 °C for several days.

However, many of the sources along the continental slope lie at cold depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.

The flexible MOF collapses when the methane is extracted to run the engine, but expands when the methane is pumped in at only moderate pressure, within the range produced by a home compressor.

Split by Sunlight The first step to answering the question is to determine the rate at which methane must be produced or delivered.

Volcanoes contribute less than 0.2 percent of the total methane budget on Earth, and even they may simply be venting methane produced by organisms in the past.

Thus, it seems like a circular argument: to produce methane (by microbes), one needs methane.

Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.

Once produced, methane could have been stored as a stable clathrate hydrate and released to the atmosphere either gradually, through volcanism, or in bursts, triggered by impacts.

On Earth, microorganisms known as methanogens produce methane as a by - product of consuming hydrogen, carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.

While its mandate was only to take color pictures, Junocam uses precision bandpass filters produced by Barr Associates of Westford, Massachusetts, including a red channel that sees into the near infrared to penetrate more deeply into the jovian atmosphere, and a fourth narrowband near - IR channel to map the abundance of methane.

The efficiency of the process can be increased by adding distilled water to the sludge and substrate as this will reduce VFA concentration, which usually destroys the methanogens (microorganisms that produce methane as a metabolic byproduct in anaerobic conditions).