Sentences with phrase «with high methane»

These shale gas pads were identified as in the drilling process, a preproduction stage not previously associated with high methane emissions.

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These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

We worked with activists and First Nations in Telkwa, Cache Creek, Smithers, Princeton, Fernie, Iskut, Dease Lake, and throughout the Peace Region, and were able to shut down commercial coalbed methane everywhere in B.C. Dogwood's early support for Tahltan opposition to Shell's massive coalbed methane plan in the Sacred Headwaters led to a high - profile victory when Shell pulled out for good in 2012.

But beef and lamb come with a high eco-footprint (especially when the animals eat grass, resulting in higher methane emissions).

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

«Titan's atmosphere is made up mainly of nitrogen and methane, with 50 % higher pressure at its surface than on Earth,» said Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), who led the study.

This, along with changes in livestock management, can lead to higher methane emissions.

The researchers also observed regional differences in methane emission levels, with the lowest emissions per device measured in the Rocky Mountains and the highest emissions in the Gulf Coast, similar to the earlier 2013 study.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

With other catalysts there have been issues around poor CO2 conversion, unwanted carbon - monoxide production, catalyst stability, low methane production rates and high reaction temperatures.

Shining a laser through the gas, TLS can measure spectral lines with far higher resolution than terrestrial telescopes and detect methane with much greater sensitivity.

«This allows for much higher efficiencies in conversion of methane to methanol than with zeolite catalysts previously reported.»

The false - color infrared shots above capture Uranus's -360-degree Fahrenheit cloud tops over consecutive nights in July, with brighter colors representing higher - altitude methane clouds.

«Produced» water from coal - bed methane extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.

The methane hydrates with the highest climate susceptibility are in upper continental margin slopes, like those that ring the Arctic Ocean, representing about 3.5 percent of the global methane hydrate inventory, says Carolyn Ruppel, a scientist who leads the Gas Hydrates Project at the USGS.

But if in the process the same carbon is converted from carbon dioxide to methane — a gas with a much higher impact on climate — it is then that we need to worry.»

Its poles are home to placid methane lakes and its equatorial regions are covered with dunes up to 100 metres high.

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.

More importantly, the 3D - CON displayed outstanding low pressure hydrogen (H2, 2.64 wt %, 1.0 bar and 77 K), methane (CH4, 2.4 wt %, 1.0 bar and 273 K), and carbon dioxide (CO2, 26.7 wt %, 1.0 bar and 273 K) uptake with a high isosteric heat of adsorption.

Though converting CO2 to CO is the simplest option, Kenis and others are looking transform CO2 in one fell swoop to methane, formic acid, methanol, or other complex hydrocarbons with more energy — and higher value.

The results confirmed that the 3D - CON displayed outstanding low pressure hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide uptake with a high isosteric heat of adsorption.

During the discovery of New Zealand's methane seeps, an unexpectedly dense habitat of heterotrophic infauna, dominated by ampharetid polychaetes, was found to co-occur with incredibly high methane emission.

The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., an integrated stationary fuel cell manufacturer, to develop a durable, low - cost, and high - performance electrochemical cell to convert natural gas and other methane - rich gas into methanol, a major chemical commodity with worldwide applications in... Read more →

The analysis revealed noticeably higher methane emissions from streams and rivers in watersheds marked with heavy agriculture, urban development or the presence of dams.

The subsequent studies have produced a mixed bag of results, with some showing higher methane emissions than expected, and others lower.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

The fact that more methane is released when temperature rises is a normal linear response, probably associated with a growing number of warm days in Arctic (which is probably partly due to a high AMO oscillation), but I see no sign of a feedback on methane curve.

We were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

Methane and hydrogen + SIBO is associated with a higher body weight and body fat.

Gulp, however, with its singular focus on the ins and outs of the digestive tract, is Roach's opportunity to indulge in high - brow scatological humor and dive into research about methane, chewing, and laxatives.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

If we want to understand methane (and greenhouse gas) emissions with high certainty sufficient for regulation, we would need an expanded network of observations.

The methane, with a little effort, can be of sufficiently high quality to introduce into the natural gas pipelines; this is being done at several locations in Europe and even the U.S.

So far our data do not show any evidence for rapid water contamination, as we do not see evidence of these diluted brines (type D water) associated with distance to natural gas wells (the Osborn 2011 paper) in wells where higher methane concentrations were observed.

I'm imagining a late season hurricane's 16 - foot storm surge combined with a full moon high tide / low tide cycle destabilizing the methane clathrates offshore of New Jersey, lightning setting the gas afire, and a storm moving inland pouring boiling water and boullabaise on the refineries....

Howarth: Our study bolsters recent smaller - scale studies that hinted that methane emissions associated with energy production may be higher than previously estimated.

Jim, Agreed, and depending on what one thinks will happen with methane and what one thinks the time to equilibrium might be — the answer could actually higher or lower than the ultimate equilibrium temperature.

David Archer of the University of Chicago has again done yeoman's service by posting a detailed look at this paper on Realclimate (along with last Monday's methane paper, discussed here, providing a new and higher estimate of emissions of this gas across the United States).

What I think you mean is that if we get CO2 levels high enough to cause a serious problem, we can't just stop emitting and hope the concentration will drop in time to make a difference, whereas with methane, it decays fast enough that we need to worry more about the decay products than about methane itself.

Re inline response in # 6 Then there is a problem with our global methane monitoring system because it shows higher concentrations of methane in north.

The Gailliots decided to cap the landfill with a high - density polyethylene cap that cost around $ 200,000 per acre and install the methane flaring equipment.

They found the highest levels of methane in areas with refineries.

But with the build - up to war economic output reflective aerosols would have been at a higher level — with greenhouse gases having gone stagnant for a good part of the previous decade and with methane having been hit even harder due to its short residence time.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

And melting permafrost might release a lot of high - global - warming - potential methane, but we don't have enough experience with that to say anything sensible about it.

This, along with changes in livestock management, can lead to higher methane emissions,» says Julie Wolff of the US Department of Agriculture, the senior author.

The FACT remains, humans & all animals on earth, have NEVER existed with CO2, Methane & other atmospheric gases as HIGH as they are today!.

Ruminants, which ferment plants in a specialized stomach before digestion, are estimated to be the largest single human - related source of methane, with greenhouse - gas emissions from sheep and cattle 19 to 48 times higher than beans or grains per pound of food produced, according to the report.