Its short lifespan and greater potency means tackling methane emissions now could have a dramatic effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reports Tom Levitt
… Methane: the quick fix for global warming? Tom Levitt | 18th February 2010 News Methane Energy Climate Change methaneice.jpg Frozen molecules of water and …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… proof to backup those claims. Natural gas is methane - a potent greenhouse gas [5] . On a … science report from the IPCC [6] says that methane is 34 times worse for the climate than … to be releasing large quantities of [7] . Methane - 86 times more powerful than CO 2 …
Natural gas is meant to be a far lower carbon fuel than coal, writes Steve Horn. But a new study shows that methane leaks from gas power plants and oil refineries are 20-120 times higher than thought. And with methane a greenhouse gas almost 100 times stronger than CO2 over 20 years, the leaks are equivalent to about a tenth of the US's CO2 emissions.
… writes Steve Horn. But a new study shows that methane leaks from gas power plants and oil … 20-120 times higher than thought. And with methane a greenhouse gas almost 100 times … gas power plants release 21-120 times more methane than earlier estimates. Published in …
So-called extreme energy - including fracking, coal bed methane extraction and underground coal gasification - is being rolled out with little concern for the environment, leading campaigner, author and engineer Paul Mobbs tells the Ecologist Film Unit
… extreme energy - including fracking, coal bed methane extraction and underground coal … and developed in the UK, including coal bed methane? Paul Mobbs: There’s a general term we … now, you can shatter coal seams to get the methane out of the coal. Coal bed methane is …
Paul Mobbs, leading environmental campaigner, author and engineer, tells the Ecologist Film Unit that extraction industries, including coal bed methane extraction, are going ahead in the UK despite serious environmental concerns........
… extraction industries, including coal bed methane extraction, are going ahead in the UK … and developed in the UK, including coal bed methane? Paul Mobbs: There’s a general term … now, you can shatter coal seams to get the methane out of the coal. Coal bed methane is …
Brazil's newly elected Dilma Rousseff is committed to completing the disastrous Belo Monte dam, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson. Worse, she looks certain to press ahead with the industrialisation of the Amazon, with 61 hydroprojects in the pipeline. And new scientific findings about the massive climate impacts of tropical forest dams are not about to stop her.
… gas emissions - due to grossly underestimated methane emissions from dam-created reservoirs … to dam projects - which largely come from methane - haven't been properly measured. Methane emissiones from tropical 'drowned …
The key study that justifies the Government's claim that fracking is a climate change 'solution' is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the publication of a new official report that would reveal the truth - that fracking is considerably worse for the world's climate than coal.
… answer two vital questions: How much CO 2 and methane (the two main greenhouse gases … station? What is the global warming effect of methane compared to CO 2 ? On the first point, … storage, this ends up in the atmosphere. The methane part was more uncertain, as it was not …
It’s hard to see what unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the UK with our vast renewable energy potential, says Mary Church
… gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the UK with … rock formations such as shale gas, coalbed methane and tight gas. Together they are known … headlines, but the less well-known coalbed methane (CBM) extraction is making an equally …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any … then into biogas, and then be upgraded to biomethane, which would be fed into the National … that replacing all of that gas with biomethane from grass would require at least 10.2 …
At a debate organised by the Food Ethics Council the jury favoured a tax on ultra-processed foods over a tax on meat.
… a tax on meat to reduce its consumption. Methane emissions Ruminants produce the greenhouse gas methane, of which the levels in the atmosphere … revolution. Chickens do not produce methane and pigs produce only small amounts, …
The latest IPCC report urges a dash for gas to allow us to reduce the burning of coal, including shale gas from fracking. But as Alex Kirby reports, their calculations appear to be based on an arithmetical flaw.
… the fact the process releases quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas often reckoned to be … Recently an observant reader pointed out that methane is 20 times more potent than CO2 when … a worrying prediction . Unless emissions of methane (and black carbon) are reduced …
If the UK really wants 3.2GW of 'baseload' power in Somerset, then the Hinkley C nuclear power station is not the only way, write Marie-Louise Heddrich, Thorsten Lenck and Carlos Perez Linkenheil. Wind power with 'wind to gas' plant and CCGT gas power stations could do the same - faster, cheaper, more flexibily, and at much lower technical and financial risk.
… hydrogen, and then using that to produce methane. Natural fluctuations in wind power … produce hydrogen (H 2 ), then convert it to methane (CH 4 ). This is then fed into the … factor for converting electricity to methane was 71% on average ( 64% in 2023, up …
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool
… 2011 News Shale Gas Fracturing Energy Coal Methane Greenhouse Gas Emissions Investigations fracturing.jpg Methane emissions have been found to escape … possibly larger than that of coal because of methane emitted during extraction. Although it …
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool
… Gas Energy Investigations Renewables Coal Methane fracturing.jpg Methane emissions have been found to escape … possibly larger than that of coal because of methane emitted during extraction. Although it …
A new report on fracking and climate change from the Task Force on Shale gas presents a rosy picture of the fuel's role as a climate-friendly 'bridge' to a renewable energy future, writes Oliver Tickell. But the truth is the precise opposite - it's a climate disaster that will only delay the arrival of clean energy.
… for a few small details ... like fugitive methane Last night I put a few questions to … the report address the question of fugitive methane emissions from fracking based on US … This is a key question as very high fugitive methane emissions from both shale gas and …
… of US gas imports by 2023. 'Bridge' fuel Methane emitted by natural gas consumption is … quantity of natural gas from irresponsible methane emitters? Ever since Germany’s … cleaner fuel, every step of the process emits methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas …
So much methane is bubbling into a river surrounded by hundreds of fracking wells that it's a fire hazard! Local campaigners blame the coal seam gas industry for the gas releases which are spreading along Queensland's river Condamine and gaining in intensity.
… river fire and boat-cut.jpg So much methane is bubbling into a river surrounded by … Condamine and gaining in intensity. So much methane gas is now bubbling up through the … an hour" , said Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham. Methane was first discovered bubbling through …
Germany's Energiewende or Energy Path is leading Europe's dominant industrial power into wholly new territory. Sober bureaucrats see a 100% renewable energy economy by 2050 as technically feasible. Chris Goodall asks - have they all gone mad?
… electricity and converting most of this into methane (Power to Gas) or methanol/butanol … using power as the raw material for renewable methane and for renewable liquid fuels. ( … conversion losses. Turning surplus power into methane, and then burning it a gas-fired power …
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste...
… Waste istock_000005613211small.jpg Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste … where microbes break it down to produce methane-rich biogas for energy, and a … fertiliser - and because it exploits methane that might otherwise be released to …
A full-scale rush for shale gas would increase emissions, writes Erik Bichard, giving the lie to politicians' claims that fracking is 'climate friendly'. A new study in Nature shows that abundant shale gas would cause CO2 emissions to rise by a median 4.5%. When 'fugitive' methane is included the figure rises to 9.5%.
… to rise by a median 4.5%. When 'fugitive' methane is included the figure rises to 9.5%. … from our energy by 2050. Include 'fugitive methane' and it gets even worse The … is that it produces high levels of fugitive methane , another greenhouse gas which has …
UN climate negotiations get under way today in Bonn, Germany - and they offer a key opportunity for campaigners to gear up their fight against fracking, writes Jamie Gorman, because to stabilize the Earth's climate, the gas must stay deep underground.
… a process of extracting shale gas or coal bed methane through a dangerous and highly … more extreme sources like shale or coal bed methane will prevent governments from meeting … key climate targets. Shale gas and coal bed methane are not 'bridging fuels', as gas …
Each year, UK livestock produce some 60 million tonnes of collectable faeces. If left to run into water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated with excessive fertiliser use – algal blooms and aquatic life starved of oxygen.
… News Waste Energy Carbon Dioxide Biodigesters Methane Electricity Microbes Biomass Carbon … solids begin to turn the slurry into CO2 and methane. Research has shown that digesting … of CO2, partly by avoiding climate damaging methane emissions from the rotting produce. …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… , fuelled by Dart Energy's proposed coalbed methane (CBM) developments around Airth , as … involves hydraulic fracturing, coalbed methane does not always require it; and … must differentiate shale gas, from coalbed methane, from UCG, in order to recognise their …
The ongoing court battle between a Peruvian farmer and a German energy giant sits on thin ice.
… report in the Journal of Climate Change . Methane Journalist Olivia Acland interviewed … for around 0.5 percent of the world's CO2 and methane emissions between 1750 and 2010", she …