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Posted on 04/12/2015 12:30:53 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
DENVER – Scientists are working to pinpoint the source of a giant mass of methane hanging over the southwestern U.S., which a study found to be the country's largest concentration of the greenhouse gas.
The report that revealed the methane hot spot over the Four Corners region — where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet — was released last year.
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I wasn’t there.
no flash... No FLASH!!!
More like John McCain talking out his ass.
Yes, you have the correct answer. Back in the late 1980's I coauthored a paper for the Society of Petroluem Engineers that identified the several causes of the problem. When water is removed from a water-bearing coal bed the methane is released both to the gas well and to any other penetrations, natural or man made. Natural include vertical fractures and permeable bedding planes that may connect with vertical fractures. Man made include older natural gas wells to deeper formations whose casings may in part be uncemented (as was common in the 50's and 60's) or those whose cement has degraded allowing gas movement. Domestic water wells penetrating methane-containing coal beds will also allow methane to accumulate in well casings and well housings which provide an explosion hazard. A combination of both man-made and natural conditions will also result in methane degassing to the atmosphere.
“Its the overabundance of people, cars, trucks, airports, corporations, electric generation fired by coal, and manufacturers smokestacks in the Four Corners that is causing this.”
No problem, then, I’ll just tell him to move.
Well, my older brother is at home, so it wasn’t him.
If I was producing a Buckaroo Banzai film today, I would consider James Franco for the lead.
A couple of decades back, a building in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, near the old Gilmore Oil Field, developed a basement full of methane with the subsequent loud logical consequence.
IF the methane is that prevalent, why don’t they find a way to capture it and burn it to help save energy?
Could be a great find.
I guess it’s best to simply whine about it.
It was recognized back in the 1980's but back the then the problem was not a contribution as a greenhouse gas but its effect on domestic water wells, both for safety and for use in ordinary household tasks. Also, local farmers had gas which came up from the subsurface killing plants in portions of their fields.
It was recognized back in the 1980's but back the then the problem was not a contribution as a greenhouse gas but its effect on domestic water wells, both for safety and for use in ordinary household tasks. Also, local farmers had gas which came up from the subsurface killing plants in portions of their fields.
Texas BBQ. And it’s worth it.
My hound dog Cate is here in Texas so it wasn’t her!
They do capture it; coalbed methane is a great source of natural gas in San Juan Basin. Mostly it's shallow and doesn't contain the other harmful constituents found in gas associated with crude oil (such as benzene). The irony is that without pumping out the water, the gas remains trapped in the core pores. Once that water is removed, gas can migrate through any penetration of the formation, man-made and natural.
el hombre que olió es es el hombre que hecha la aroma (for some reason saying something in Spanish always seems to take more words).
I actually meant it as a joke.
Nah this is easy
it is all the hot air that McShamey has been spewing
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