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Methane Scavengers Captured
Impact Lab | May 14th 2008
Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded in capturing syntrophic (means “feeding together”) microorganisms that are kno read more
Grumpy’s News Flashes XVI
From The Grumpy Old Man (Environment) | May 13th 2008 by Eddy De Clercq
Farmers in Estonia need to pay flatulence tax for the the methane their cows produce. A cow farts and burps on average 350 litres of methane and 1,500 litres carbon dioxide. All herds together are in this way responsible for 25 percent of the total read more
Curbing Bovine Flatulence
Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative | May 11th 2008
A tip of the conservative ball cap to Watts Up With That? You just can’t make this stuff up. Scientists are now working to create a new “tootless” grass for bovine enjoyment which will help cut methane emissions from the bovine tailpipes. W read more
Stopping Methane Release in the Arctic and Heartland Institute Me…
The Green Filter | May 5th 2008
Those interested in or concerned about climate change will probably know that methane release from melting permafrost in the Arctic is a major unknown as a "tipping point" that could send the climate system into a tailspin as far as human interests a read more
Methane spikes in atmosphere: melting permafrost?
Local Warming | May 1st 2008 by Shannon
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released numbers last week on the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane in 2007. The news isn't good: Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global clim read more
The Weekly Carboholic: Soil key to global heating too
Scholars and Rogues | April 30th 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
Dirt. It’s all around you. You wash it off your car. You run and hike on it. You buy it to plant your new roses in. And yet, according to an amazing Boston Herald story titled The Future of Dirt, soil scientists are only now beginning to read more
CO2, methane up sharply in 2007
An Inconvenient Blog | April 24th 2008 by Wayne Roden
The amount of two key greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere rose sharply in 2007, and carbon dioxide levels this year are literally off the chart, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday. In its annual index of greenhouse gas emissions, the read more
THE HEALTHY GEEZER - CHEWING GUM CAN CONTRIBUTE TO GAS PAINS
ATYOURSERVICE | April 21st 2008 by SANDY GOLIVER
Q. I get a lot of gas and someone told me it would help if I stopped chewing gum all the time (ex-smoker). That sounds like bunk to me. What do you think?A. It’s not bunk. When you chew gum, you swallow more often and some of what you're swallowing read more
Producing Electricity From Cow Power
American Fuels | April 18th 2008 by mus302
There is a very interesting article by Molly Farrell Tucker in BioCycle Magazine about a program in Vermont to produce electricity from cow manure.THROUGH its award-winning Cow Power program, Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), a Vermont utility h read more
Grumpy’s News Flashes X
From The Grumpy Old Man (Environment) | April 9th 2008 by Eddy De Clercq
The extraction of methane from coal mines is economically interesting due to the high oil prices. A Belgian / Australian company is interested in the extraction of natural gas from old coal mines the province of Limburg (Belgium). The first task is read more
The Power of Trash
The Off Grid Home | April 4th 2008 by OffHome
A big worry today is what to do with all the waste that is disposed of in our everyday lives. Where is all the wrappers, napkins, uneaten food, worn clothing, broken furniture, etc that needs to be disposed of going? and how do we make trash a posit read more
Organics Found on Extrasolar Planet
Needcoffee.com | March 23rd 2008
Okay, so this is pretty wicked: they've found organic methane on a planet outside our solar system. I say it that way for those of you who think that "extrasolar" means "you get a tan twice as fast." The telltale signature of the molecule methane read more
Company Claims they Found Answer to Converting Anything that Grow…
Managers Realm | March 20th 2008
A secret three-year operation where Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., a company based in Georgia, worked on ways to convert things that grow in the earth into oil, claims they now have figured it out, and are going to go public with the process.CEO of the compa read more
Poop Power: Craptasitc Methane Generation
Boil Before Drinking | March 20th 2008 by hotcoffee76
Inhabitat has an ineresting article on methane power as a renewable energy source. Apparently, a California utilities company is trying this out. Some of the comments are worth reading as theyu highligh some other places where this has been tried o read more
Methane Detected on Distant Planet for First Time
Trench Reynolds | March 20th 2008 by Trench Reynolds
Coleman announces renewable energy grants available
Green Times | March 20th 2008 by infoplease
U.S. Senator Norm Coleman announced Minnesota farmers and rural small business owners may be eligible to apply for USDA Rural Development’s Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program. The program, which provides loan gu read more
Hubble telescope finds methane on an exosolar planet
Wheatdogg's world | March 19th 2008
And that’s a big deal because methane is an organic molecule that can be a precursor to life. We know methane exists in our solar system, but the Hubble’s discovery is the first evidence it exists on planets outside our solar system. Whet read more
Birdsongs and methane
the queen's caffeine | March 19th 2008
Science news: Research finds birdsong trigger: Birds know to sing in the spring because of hormones triggered by longer days, researchers have found. Teams from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh and Nagoya University in Japan have identified how read more
Chris on Global Warming
Monkeybizness | March 17th 2008 by Monkeybizness
My friend Chris (pictured below) offered a few awesome words of wisdom on climate change and global warming last night. Specifically: “How can air conditioners cause global warming? They make the air cool.” and this: Tammy: I was reading read more
Super Bugs That Eat CO2 and Poop Energy
Eco Beat | March 12th 2008 by Neil Katz
We’ve written before about machines that can convert human poop into power. Now we hear of man made bacteria that can eat carbon dioxide and excrete clean fuel that could power our cars and homes. Normally we would think it sounds too good be read more
Grumpy’s News Flashes VI
From The Grumpy Old Man (Environment) | March 11th 2008 by Eddy De Clercq
The British government plans to build coal fired power station again. The ministers involved claims to have taken all environmental issues into consideration when they took this decision. Greenpeace doubt the claim by Dutch energy companies that th read more
California to Utilize Methane from Dairy Cows
Money, Tech, and Business News | March 5th 2008 by JT
According to Earthtimes.org, PG&E and BioEnergy solutions just came up with the world's first project that will utilize the methane released from dairy cow manure for use into California's Renewable energy portfolio. It's the first of its kind to read more
Dr. Venture, Super Science — All Real!
Misinterpreted | March 3rd 2008
Craig Venter, a famed geneticist whose last name sounds suspiciously like "Venture," will solve Global Warming and the Peak Oil Crisis simultaneously by genetically enhancing preexisting organisms to make them eat Carbon Dioxide (a greenho read more
Portable Methane Gas Detectors - Find The Leak From A Safe Distan…
Business and Money Matters to Grow From | February 26th 2008 by Lucy Jones
Methane gas if undetected in time - is a killer - make no mistake. That's the main reason why a group of concerned people have researched and developed portable methane gas detectors that when used can pin-point the location of the leak from a distan read more
Why Global Climate Change Comes Quickly
Edge of Chaos | February 16th 2008
This somewhat long and dense article is well worth the wading through, in order to have the bejesus scared out of one, once the realization sets in that the climate has, in the past, changed rather quicker than previously supposed. Also worth a ment read more
Next Stop For Big Oil: Titan
PresidenToor - Where I Talk | February 13th 2008 by PresidenToor
For those less fortune in the realm of knowledge, Titan is a celestial object that orbits Saturn, comparable to the size of Earth (I think a little smaller though). This Space.com report details the amount of methane, ethane, and other organic mole read more
First Organic Molecules Found on Alien World
Ant Onaf Blog | February 12th 2008
Galactic_grub writes "The detection of planet HD 189733b is in some ways just another small victory for extra-solar planetary science. It is too hot for there to be everything 'alive'. Just the same, someplace on the planet are trace amounts of the g read more
Lightning Show That Lasts Half a Year
Internetakias - The internet guy | February 8th 2008 by Ano
Even the worse storm you have been is no match for this area, where the Catatumbo river merges with lake Maracaibo, in Venezuela. Half the year and for 10 hours each night a constant lightning show takes place and none knows why. An average of 5 ligh read more
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