The idea seems counterintuitive: after all, methane, the major component of natural ... burning such fuels still produces CO 2, they are thought to be closer to carbon neutral when the gas can ...

However, methane is still an important greenhouse gas because there are many human-caused sources of it. Methane today is responsible for about 0.5°C of total warming. Methane is released during the ...

Burning natural gas releases about half the amount of carbon dioxide as coal for the same amount of energy. However, its production leaks huge amounts of methane –a greenhouse gas with 80 times ...

Until now, we have been producing hydrogen via conventional steam methane reforming/water shift reaction or partial oxidation processes. To produce hydrogen in this way, many hydrocarbons such as ...

Burning off excess natural gas (flaring) at oil refinery, Sinclair, Wyoming. (Photo by: Marli ... [+] Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The European Union’s methane regulations ...

Thousands of gas flares at oil production sites around the globe burn approximately 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually – equivalent ... emissions and emissions from incomplete combustion ...

Combustion is another name for burning. In a combustion reaction, fuel is burned and reacts with oxygen to release energy. Katie: Dr. Tim Gregory knows a thing or two about creating things that go ...

Low-emitting oil and natural gas facilities make up an outsize chunk of the sector’s methane footprint in the United States despite their “poorly understood” contribution to overall ...

smaller animal operations and various types of natural gas leaks. A company called Windfall Bio is pursuing a novel solution for these diverse sources of methane which is based on an interesting ...

Agriculture is a major source of methane, and methane gas is also generated as a byproduct of transporting, storing, and burning natural gas ... performs a two-step reaction in which zeolite ...