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- noun organic chemistry Alternative spelling of
CH₄ . - abbreviation Channel 4
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None the less, the carbon combusted as CH4 is NOT captured in an IGCC plant, where it would be in a pulverized coal plant.
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I wish I could find the reference, but IIRC, at 2C of warming, the total CH4 from the warming of taiga and tundra will equal what we’re currently emitting from industrial processes.
Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing 2010
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The decay of excessive algae causes the release of CH4, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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The decay of excessive algae causes the release of CH4, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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It is very likely that, at the landscape, regional, and global scales, the tundra represents a source of radiative forcing due to emissions of CH4, which is the most important greenhouse gas driving the ecosystem influence on atmospheric radiative forcing.
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Sulphureted hydrogen, 3H_ {2} S,} {CH4, which is marsh gas.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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These facts are the result of the same process which leads to the production of biogas, the transformation of long carbon chains (cellulose, alcohol and organic acids) into short carbon molecules such as CH4 and CO ..
10. Use of slurry 1991
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I think of these boxes as environmental vacuum cleaners, sucking up the methane, burning it, turning some of that heat into electricity and it turns the CH4 into CO2 and water.
Segway Inventor Gets A TV Series Gerri Miller 2010
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LOOWATT: Toilet Made From Poo Transforms Excrement into Energy CH4 Composting Toilet by Virginia Gardiner – Inhabitat about mission submit a story shop advertise with us support us press contact sign up
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LOOWATT: Toilet Made From Poo Transforms Excrement into Energy CH4 Composting Toilet by Virginia Gardiner – Inhabitat about mission submit a story shop advertise with us support us press contact sign up
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