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Climate Change: Madness in their methane?

Impact: Climate Change    March 7, 2010
A few years ago the whole ‘cow farts are global climate threat’ thing seemed more than a bit overblown. (Cow and other farts being mostly methane, dontcha know.) It became difficult to mention methane in connection with global warming without raising images of bovine herds worldwide in a massive chorus of postprandial flatulence. Besides, CO2 [...]
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The Bloom Box fuel cell system

Impact: Alternative Energy    February 25, 2010
Normally this would be a simple news item: Bloom Energy, Inc. (California, USA) introduces a new electric power producing fuel cell device – the Bloom Box. There would be some description: The Bloom Box uses inputs of methane-type fuel (from natural gas to bio-fuels), burns them at about 1000C, and with proprietary catalytic converters produces [...]
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Mars methane: From meteorites, no; from life, maybe.

News: Exogenous Life    December 10, 2009
Once in a great while not finding something can have major implications. Case in point: A team of researchers from University College of London have ruled out the presence of methane on Mars as the result of meteorites. That, according to their report, leaves two possibilities – the methane is created by an interaction between [...]
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