Methane in sentence

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You see, there are facilities now that can actually capture that methane and generate power, displacing the need for fossil fuel power, but we need to be smart about this.

This is called coal bed methane.

Now, that's added to the gas, the methane gas, that's already inside.

So they added oxygen to methane gas.

So you had methane gas, which is flammable, oxygen and heat.

And it also discovered traces of methane.

And we don't know yet if the methane in question is really from geology or biology.

It takes CO2 to methane using molecular hydrogen as its energy source.

And this area is not liquid water; it's methane.

So much methane gas was released, it was the equivalent of putting half a million cars on the road.

Now, you can make all the jokes you want about cow farts, but methane is 20 times more poisonous than CO2, and it's not just methane.

Near that was methane.

I've never seen volcanoes of methane.

Instead of belching out lava, they were belching out big, big bubbles of methane.

In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane as it decomposes.

Except it's a lot colder, and that atmosphere is heavily made of methane.

Now, methane gets people all excited, because it's organic material, so immediately people start thinking, could life have evolved in that location, when you have a lot of organic material.

What it turned out, that all that we are seeing, all this liquid, [is made of] hydrocarbon and ethane and methane, similar to what you put in your car.

So here we have a cycle of a planet which is like our Earth, but is all made of ethane and methane and organic material.

Beneath the thick ice of Europa, in the vapor plumes on Enceladus, and within the methane lakes of Titan, astrobiologists are on the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Take Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which has a thick nitrogen atmosphere containing methane and many other organic molecules.

Its clouds condense and rain onto Titan’s surface, sustaining lakes and seas full of liquid methane.

But, paired with the high quantities of organic material that also rain down from the sky, these bodies of liquid methane could possibly support unfamiliar life forms.

See, decomposition releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as well as other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide, but it also releases all the nutrients we all need to survive.

Elements and compounds essential to life include hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, phosphates, and ammonia.

The seawater expelled here is highly alkaline and lacks carbon dioxide, but is rich in methane and offers more hospitable temperatures.

Enzymes may also offer some help in capturing greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

This is a problem because the warming heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean, where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon which, when it thaws, is turned into methane by microbes.

Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is actively bubbling up out of the water.

And as this food sits, it gradually rots and produces harmful methane gas, a leading contributor to global climate change.

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