Aug
27
Vast Natural Gas Leaks Found in Atlantic Ocean
August 27, 2014 | Leave a Comment
A study by researchers from Mississippi State University, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other institutions shows methane plumes in the water column between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and Georges Bank, Massachusetts. The study shows natural methane leakage from the seafloor is far more widespread on the U.S. Atlantic margin than previously thought. At least 570 […]
Oct
23
A Startup To Convert Methane to Liquid Fuels
October 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The startup company Calysta Energy was formed in 2011 as a spinout of DNA2.0, the largest US-based provider of synthetic genes for industrial and academic customers. The new firm’s goal is for engineered organisms to use methane as a feedstock in producing liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce […]
Jan
20
Natural Hydrogen Storage Found
January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2. The PNNL researchers […]
Apr
8
FOUND! The Bug That Makes Methane In Garbage
April 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
We’ve long known that garbage piled up and landfills weep and leak methane gas. Its even harvested and being put to use in many places. Researchers had a hard time figuring out why – because landfills do not start out as a friendly environment for the organisms that produce methane. Now new research from North […]
Oct
19
There’s Methane Coming From Those Lakes
October 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
With no great surprise researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology found that substantial amounts of the greenhouse gas methane (natural gas) releases not only from large tropical reservoirs but also from run-of-the-river reservoirs in cool high mountainous Switzerland. Its been known that warm reservoirs with a supply of organic matter […]
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