The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2013
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Materials scientists and engineers have developed a sensor that is fast, sensitive and efficient enough to detect specific wavelengths of electromagnetic energy while on the move. The technology could actively scan areas ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 6, 2017
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Invisible gas leaks from aging or damaged pipelines cost U.S. consumers billions of dollars every year, contribute to global warming, and, in rare cases, cause dangerous explosions. But pipeline replacement programs in cities ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2015
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Natural gas is displacing coal, which could help fight climate change because burning it produces fewer carbon emissions. But producing and transporting natural gas releases methane, a greenhouse gas that also contributes ...
Environment
Jul 2, 2018
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After the optical frequency comb made its debut as a ruler for light, spinoffs followed, including the astrocomb to measure starlight and a radar-like comb system to detect natural gas leaks. And now, researchers have unveiled ...
General Physics
Mar 31, 2021
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Major leaks from oil and gas pipelines have led to home evacuations, explosions, millions of dollars in lawsuit payouts and valuable natural resources escaping into the air, ground and water. But in a report in ACS' journal ...
Environment
Oct 22, 2014
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A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), published on March 31, shows that global methane emissions from the oil and gas sector increased by nearly four percent from 2018 to 2019. That trend could continue ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2020
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Climate talks often revolve around reducing the most dangerous greenhouse gas CO2.
Environment
Nov 21, 2023
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Each year brings new research showing that oil and natural gas wells leak significant amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Environment
Dec 20, 2018
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Natural gas is a relatively clean burning fossil fuel, that causes less air pollution than coal and is widely used in the world. Recent studies have shown that the natural gas leaks from production, supply chain, and end-use ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2022
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