Comments on: Methane Is the Future http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/ News and Views for Making and Saving Money in New Energy and Fuel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Exercise Balls http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-94405 Exercise Balls Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:06:06 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=4014#comment-94405 nice post. thanks. nice post. thanks.

]]> By: Golf Balls http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-79017 Golf Balls Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:31:03 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=4014#comment-79017 I wanted to give thanks for this great read!! I added to my bookmarks, cheers I wanted to give thanks for this great read!! I added to my bookmarks, cheers

]]> By: Joseph C. Sweeney http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-52740 Joseph C. Sweeney Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:21:43 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=4014#comment-52740 Gas Hydrates Research is one of several R&D programs sponsored by the US COngress for years. Finally, one of the many funded demonstration sites has proven the ability to recover and reclaim Methane from its frozen form on a commercial scale. Now, how long and how much money will it take to enable industry to tap this vast resource to help in our quest to become energy independent? What other "new" energy technologies are at the same stage or even more advanced? Which have had major US Congressional investments? Isn't it time that the public understands this topic from the funding and "promise" perspective rather than only whether global warming will be accelerated? Gas Hydrates Research is one of several R&D programs sponsored by the US COngress for years. Finally, one of the many funded demonstration sites has proven the ability to recover and reclaim Methane from its frozen form on a commercial scale. Now, how long and how much money will it take to enable industry to tap this vast resource to help in our quest to become energy independent?

What other “new” energy technologies are at the same stage or even more advanced? Which have had major US Congressional investments? Isn’t it time that the public understands this topic from the funding and “promise” perspective rather than only whether global warming will be accelerated?

]]> By: Magnetic Materials Geek http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-44199 Magnetic Materials Geek Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:34:56 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=4014#comment-44199 [...] Methane Is the Future [...] [...] Methane Is the Future [...]

]]> By: John Cossham http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/02/08/methane-is-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42838 John Cossham Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=4014#comment-42838 When you burn methane (a fossil fuel) you release CO2, adding to climate change. If you disturb methane hydrates and don't capture them, the methane enters the atmosphere and is 23 times as powerful as a greenhouse gas as CO2. Increasing temperatures are changing ocean temperature gradients, and methane hydrates are already beginning to destabilise and bubble up into the air. In this respect, the more we can capture and convert to CO2 the better, but for me, I would prefer we invested all our time and energy into researching and building sources of energy which don't emit greenhouse gases during their operation. I for one would prefer that our future energy sources are not methane, coal and oil, but are solar, wind, wave, tidal, biomass... and before all that, energy conservation, insulation and drastically reducing our use of finite energy and materials. (I do quite like anaerobic digesters though, the only 'sustainable' source of methane) John 'Compost' Cossham, York, UK When you burn methane (a fossil fuel) you release CO2, adding to climate change.
If you disturb methane hydrates and don’t capture them, the methane enters the atmosphere and is 23 times as powerful as a greenhouse gas as CO2.
Increasing temperatures are changing ocean temperature gradients, and methane hydrates are already beginning to destabilise and bubble up into the air. In this respect, the more we can capture and convert to CO2 the better, but for me, I would prefer we invested all our time and energy into researching and building sources of energy which don’t emit greenhouse gases during their operation.
I for one would prefer that our future energy sources are not methane, coal and oil, but are solar, wind, wave, tidal, biomass… and before all that, energy conservation, insulation and drastically reducing our use of finite energy and materials.
(I do quite like anaerobic digesters though, the only ‘sustainable’ source of methane)
John ‘Compost’ Cossham, York, UK

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