Apparently it is building up and building up...
2007-01-15 06:06:14 · 13 answers · asked by cragoogle 1 in Environment
Although the numbers appear big, the amounts are actually small in the large amount of propane/natural gas used. There are landfills that do this. You can also get it from wastewater operations. But unlike propane and natural gas, the cost to trap and use it are not very economical. Of course it is cleaner compared to coal and it really depends on the price of the conventional fuels.
2007-01-15 06:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Peter Boiter Woods 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I talked about a modern-day statistic that in case you piled each and each of the rubbish the U. S. generated in one hundred years one hundred ft severe, it would make a sq. with facets about 20 miles lengthy it truly is fairly truly short once you pay interest to each and each of the hype about determining of area. that's always interesting to me that methane on Titan is abiogenic yet methane on earth is always biogenic. of direction someone has a incorrect theory. if truth be recommended that methane outgasses at a a lot higher price over a a lot broader section than scientists would have ever guessed and virtually all of that's organic.
2016-10-31 04:27:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something similar is already being used in Italy where they take sewer gas and remove CO2 and other unusable gases through a chemical process. They are not as lucky as we . It works.
There was a proposal off the coast the pressure in the ocean floor is high enough to leak methane with a little oil. It would cost too much. Much easier to drill and release the pressure.
2007-01-15 07:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is being done in many sites, but there are 2 problems,
The size of the site to produce enough methane to cover capital costs, secondly sites are usually too remote from gas consumers.
2007-01-15 06:32:39 · answer #4 · answered by John C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We do!.
Local sites use the methane to power generators which feed electicity back into the national grid.
2007-01-16 00:41:32 · answer #5 · answered by rookethorne 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does happen. Check the website out below - esp the power from methane section
2007-01-16 01:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think about how large the surface of a landfill is, and then think about how enormous a siphon would have to be to catch the methane coming off of there...
2007-01-15 06:10:21 · answer #7 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it is, where its plausible. you cant just stick a pipe in the ground... we have one of these units located in a country park... it used to be the main city dump... now it has a nice engine house, which you can watch working, and a huge gauge which shows power output... which is around 1.5gw..
and unless you know whats in the shed, you'd never guess...
2007-01-15 06:44:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do,once the landfill has settled
2007-01-15 06:10:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That IS being done in some places, but not enough.
2007-01-15 06:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋