Sentence examples for capturing methane from from inspiring English sources

The cost was £590; the money was spent on capturing methane from an American mine.

New breeds of rice require less flooding in paddy fields, new feeds can cut down on emissions from cows, and there are methods of capturing methane from large agricultural barns where livestock are intensively reared.

Methane emissions can be cut by nearly a third by reducing leaks from gas pipes, coal mines and hydraulic fracturing, by capturing methane from waste dumps, water treatment plants and manure, and by cutting emissions from rice paddies.

Instead this was a stunningly British debate.Later, we got on to climate change, as one of the experts (a pro-efficiency economist) noted the benefits of capturing methane from belching, farting cattle kept indoors.

The E.P.A. estimates that capturing methane from thousands of new wells will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 28 million to 44 million tons a year, making the rule one of the federal government's largest measures to mitigate climate change.

What is more, points out Luke Warren, of the World Coal Institute, an industry body, capturing methane from coal mines prevents it from escaping into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming, and so in some cases qualifies for carbon credits backed by the United Nations.But the industry is not without its problems.

Methane capture systems at open landfills aren't installed quickly enough to capture methane from rotting food waste, he said.

The Oregon Dairy in Pennsylvania has installed an anaerobic digester that captures methane from manure and turns it into electricity and heat.

Some projects send coolant gases to be destroyed at an incinerator in Arkansas; others, tied to dairies in states like Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, will capture methane from livestock waste.

Meanwhile, India has captured methane from several large landfills and has built six facilities that pull out and ignite flammable trash, turning it into what is known as refuse-derived fuel.

Therefore, the ability to capture methane from the Lagos landfills will help to mitigate contributory effects to global warming and its attendant consequences [3].