Sentences with phrase «rather than methane»

But if the food was instead composted — as only 3 percent is — it could produce soil enriching compost rather than methane.

Not exact matches

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Restaurants can even rely more on pork and chicken, rather than beef and lamb, which emit high quantities of methane.

Krissansen - Totton explains in more detail: «Having methane and carbon dioxide together is unusual, because carbon dioxide is carbon's most oxidized state, and methane (composed of a carbon atom linked to four hydrogen atoms rather than any oxygen at all) is its least,» he says.

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They determined a material with less than 90 percent carbon and enhanced by oxygen, rather than nitrogen or sulfur, worked best for both carbon capture and methane selectivity, especially for materials activated at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Celsius.

That agriculture, rather than fossil fuels, is driving methane poses a new set of problems for governments trying to fight climate change, Schaefer says.

Rather than bacteria, all known methane - producing organisms are archaea.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

Banks suggests that reconciling those rights agreements could lead to a shift in the way coal mining companies view methane gas, treating it as a potential source of revenue rather than a fugitive gas to be dealt with as a safety or environmental concern.

By studying the planet's infrared glow, the astronomers discovered that its air abounds with the carbon - bearing molecules carbon monoxide and methane, implying that the planet could have carbide (a compound of carbon and metal) rather than silicate in its interior.

The new modeling work, led by Tetsuya Tokano of the University of Cologne, Germany, shows that the same processes could be at work on Titan as well, except that it is methane rather than water that evaporates from the seas.

A June 2017 study by the Center for Arctic, Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) concluded those unexpected methane blasts, rather than gradual releases, are a big problem.

Yet the data argue for production of methane on Titan rather than delivery of methane to Titan.

[Response: The concentration of methane in seawater can be measured, and I think the ocean is very often a source to the atmosphere, rather than a sink.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowerinMethane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowerinmethane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

[Response: The concentration of methane in seawater can be measured, and I think the ocean is very often a source to the atmosphere, rather than a sink.

For various reasons, I personally think that methane reduction programs should be separated from CO2 reductions, rather than allowing trading, but I may be a minority viewpoint right now.

In «Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change», David Archer argues that methane release is likely to be «chronic rather than catastrophic&Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change», David Archer argues that methane release is likely to be «chronic rather than catastrophic&methane release is likely to be «chronic rather than catastrophic».

With regard to the combined effects of permafrost and clathrate methane emissions I'm rather less sanguine than you, though I continue to press for the requisite Emissions Control treaty as the paramount mitigation priority.

Wow, that's an interesting scientific approach to a new phenomenon, assuming that it's unique (there are now two other examples, by the way) assuming that the emissions were of gaseous methane under pressure rather than solid methane hydrate continuing to dissociate, assuming no methane flows in from surrounding areas, and so on.

It may be a change activity in shallow water or surface sediment organisms producing more methane, rather than increased melting in deep sediments — isotope ratios ought to help clarify that.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

Because the carbon that stimulates methane production is primarily dissolved organic carbon carried downward through the peat by rainwater rather than the solid - phase carbon that forms peat, this change in transport depth doubled the peak production zones for methane.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

In the agricultural sector, most of the approximately 5 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions are from methane and nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide.

Carbon emission in the form of methane rather than CO2 further worsens the impact of dams under the Paris accord because the impact of this gas is concentrated in the time window for achieving the target.

Landfill methane can be tapped, captured, and used as a fairly clean energy source for generating electricity or heat, rather than leaking into the air or being dispersed as waste.

Rather than focusing just on methane leakage, the authors of the ERL paper surveyed 23 experts to get their predictions about future natural gas supply and then fed those assumptions into a model of the energy system.

Rather than sources of methane, Dr Turner looks at methane sinks.

However, new research led by Princeton University researchers and published in The ISME Journal in August suggests that, thanks to methane - hungry bacteria, the majority of Arctic soil might actually be able to absorb methane from the atmosphere rather than release it.

But for natural gas to truly play a bridging role, guardrails will need to be in place, for example, by ensuring that natural gas displaces coal generation (rather than merely adding to it) and supporting other measures like carbon pricing, methane regulations, and renewable portfolio standards (Lazarus et al. 2015).

In this final section, I will try to make estimates of what subcap methane emissions may mean for future climate change; more as a speculative basis for discussion rather than an authoritative prediction.

These costs remain the same irrespective of whether the methane emission is delayed by up to 20 years, kicking in at 2035 rather than 2015, or stretched out over two or three decades, rather than one.

Respiration in these organisms is methane rather than carbon dioxide.

As we all know the residence time of methane in the biosphere is in the order of a gazillion years, rather than about 3 years.

«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.

Still, the possible political backlash may be one reason the administration chose to walk on methane, rather than run.

The climatic impact of this quantity of methane would be comparable to that of a volcanic eruption (although warming rather than cooling).

In the months they spent driving round Boston, Phillips and Ackley focused on counting leaks rather than measuring the volume of methane rising up from the city's streets.

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Thus, the problem with the proposals currently being discussed in Congress: They will, for the foreseeable future, direct private investment toward the least expensive emissions reductions (such as burning methane from landfills, purchasing forest land for carbon sequestration, or retrofitting power plants and buildings so they operate more efficiently) rather than toward breakthrough technologies (like low - cost solar energy and carbon capture and storage), which are too expensive to become widely adopted today but which are vital for creating a new energy economy and thus drastically reducing emissions.

Since methane clathrates are stable at a higher temperature than liquefied natural gas (LNG)(− 20 vs − 162 °C), there is some interest in converting natural gas into clathrates rather than liquifying it when transporting it by seagoing vessels.

It's counterproductive, except to make money by releasing the methane for sure, rather than leave the strata alone and focus the money and effort on non-carbon infrastructure and conservation as fast as possible.

The fact that we're starting to see methane wherever we look may be an artifact of looking more rather than feedback effects.

A warmer climate is likely to mean that vegetation and soils would become a net source rather than a sink of carbon, leading to a positive feedback (warmer soils mean more CO2 and methane, more greenhouse gases mean warmer soils, and so on).

Published last week in the journal Science, researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released into the atmosphere since 2006 was produced by bacteria, pointing to sources like agriculture — rather than sources like fossil fuel production or the burning of organic material — as the culprit behind the increase in methane levels.

Robert Howarth, an environmental biology professor at Cornell University, used research from the United Nations to calculate that if methane's potency were considered over 20 years rather than 100 years, it would be 72 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in terms of its warming potential.