News tagged with natural gas
Related topics: carbon dioxide , energy , environmental protection agency , fossil fuels , greenhouse gas emissions
Urban growth, farm exports drive tropical deforestation
The biggest causes of deforestation in tropical countries are population growth in cities and agricultural exports, a finding that should shape decisions on preventing forest loss, experts said Sunday.
Feb 07, 2010 |
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New technique helps search for another Earth (Update)
The quest to find another world that sustains life has been boosted by a technique that should let less expensive ground-based telescopes join the search, a study said on Wednesday.
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Natural gas supplies could be augmented with methane hydrate
Naturally occurring methane hydrate may represent an enormous source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and could ultimately augment conventional natural gas supplies, says a new congressionally mandated report ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 29, 2010 |
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If a Tree Falls in the Forest...
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a century of increasing forest fires, hurricanes and plagues, Dr. Ben Bond-Lamberty, a terrestrial ecologist for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, suggests taking a fresh look ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Space cannon to shoot payloads into orbit (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist has proposed using a 1.1 km (3,600 ft) cannon to deliver cargo into orbit, and says the cost would be around $250 per pound, a massive saving on the $5,000 per pound ($11,000 per ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Oceans losing ability to absorb greenhouse gas
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a dirty filter, the Earth's oceans are growing less efficient at absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas produced by fossil-fuel burning, reports a study co-authored ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Oceans becoming noisier thanks to pollution -- report
The world's oceans are becoming noisier thanks to pollution, with potentially harmful effects for whales, dolphins and other marine life, US scientists said in a study published Sunday.
Dec 20, 2009 |
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Home heating efficiencies offer 'hat trick' of savings: study
Improving the energy efficiency of Maryland homes heated by natural gas would generate a "hat trick" of economic and environmental benefits over the next 10 years, including more than 80,000 new jobs, savings of hundreds ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight.
Dec 10, 2009 |
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A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Energy-saving powder: Converting methane to methanol
It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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New evidence supports 19th century idea on formation of oil and gas
Scientists in Washington, D.C. are reporting laboratory evidence supporting the possibility that some of Earth's oil and natural gas may have formed in a way much different than the traditional process described ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Colorado county copes with methane mystery
(AP) -- Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientist shines laser light on methane in pursuit of clean fuel
An abundant greenhouse gas could someday help clean up the earth. Converting methane to liquid methanol could produce clean, low-cost fuel and prevent the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Exploiting methane ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Cars that Run on Cow Power?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Race cars have long provided a testing ground for driving technology that we eventually see in passenger cars on the road. To this end, an engineering team in Lancashire, England, is hoping ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 16, 2009 |
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