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Sunday, October 12, 2014

ScienceDaily: Energy and Resources News

ScienceDaily: Energy and Resources News


Space-based methane maps find largest U.S. signal in Southwest

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:38 PM PDT

An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the US Southwest, according to a new study. Four Corners sits on North America's most productive coalbed methane basin. Coalbed methane is a variety of the gas that's stuck to the surface of coal. It is dangerous to miners (not to mention canaries), but in recent decades, it's been tapped as a resource.

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