methane pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:38:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Methane Emissions From Oil Production Much Higher Than Previously Estimated https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-emissions-from-oil-production-much-higher-than-previously-estimated-20170206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-emissions-from-oil-production-much-higher-than-previously-estimated-20170206/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:38:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=62709 Lena Höglund-Isaksson has some bad news: it turns out that global oil production released a lot more methane into the atmosphere than previously thought. A study she was the lead author of has just been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, and in that study she blows the top off a decades old formula […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-emissions-from-oil-production-much-higher-than-previously-estimated-20170206/feed/ 0 62709 Leakage Outweighs the Benefits of Natural Gas Usage https://www.greenoptimistic.com/leakage-outweighs-the-benefits-of-natural-gas-usage-20130114/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/leakage-outweighs-the-benefits-of-natural-gas-usage-20130114/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:04:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31362 Natural gas, for some, may be the solution to curbing US petroleum imports and reducing greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions. Natural gas is being used in power plants, which are much cleaner than coal-fired plants, as well as in vehicles. Increasing the number of vehicles that run on compressed natural gas [CNG] might seem like a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/leakage-outweighs-the-benefits-of-natural-gas-usage-20130114/feed/ 0 31362 Methane-Eating Anaerobic Bacteria Discovered by Scientists https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-anaerobic-bacteria-archaea-20121113/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-anaerobic-bacteria-archaea-20121113/#respond Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:38:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27998 It has long been known that there are vast deposits of methane under the sea floor, generated by the decay of animal and plant carcasses. What has not been well-understood, though, is how this methane didn’t make it to the atmosphere. Methane, as a greenhouse gas, is about 400 times more powerful than carbon-dioxide, so […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/methane-anaerobic-bacteria-archaea-20121113/feed/ 0 27998 Arctic Emissions of Methane Could Trigger Abrupt Climate Warming https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arctic-emissions-methane-trigger-abrupt-climate-warming-20100308/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arctic-emissions-methane-trigger-abrupt-climate-warming-20100308/#respond Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:52:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6880 Researchers concluded that the release of just a fraction of the methane held in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf sediments could lead to a sudden warming of the climate.

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