| Renewable energy coming to the county RenewablesBiz The plant is designed to treat raw landfill gas, which is made up of 58 percent methane and 42 percent carbon dioxide generated by the anaerobic breakdown of materials placed in landfills. Because methane has more than 20 times the potential of global … See all stories on this topic » |
| Getting up to speed with Curiosity as of sol 84, and two awesome mosaics The Planetary Society (blog) Methane has been observed on Mars spectroscopically (although that observation is difficult and the results controversial). It’s been observed to vary. This requires some ongoing process that creates and/or releases methane. That’s because methane is a … See all stories on this topic » |
| Pigs ‘Poo’ Powers Australia Farm Manila Bulletin Blantyre Farms at Young, 375 kilometres south-west of Sydney, burns the nasty methane that used to go into the atmosphere to generate all its electricity needs. ”The biggest winner of all of it is that we no longer have a power bill and we can even … See all stories on this topic » |
| Mars Soil Like Hawaii: Curiosity Rover Finds Dirt To Be Volcanic [Video] The Inquisitr SAM has already detected traces of methane. Previous projections have shown that a quantity of 200 to 300 tons of methane is produced annually on Mars. How to explain such a large quantity? One hypothesis proposes the source to be geological methane … See all stories on this topic » |
