methane

How much electricity can you produce from a small amount of manure? I've recently been watching some old episodes of "The Good Life", a BBC sitcom about a couple who decide to go self sufficient and live off the land from their home in the suburbs. I've just watched the episode where they get...

Watching an old episode of Babylon 5 recently, I began wondering about the plausibility of methane breathing aliens (specifically, methane breathing motile intelligent aliens). Science fiction is full of methane breathing aliens, but how realistic are they? To make use of methane, it'd need to...

I think this one is going to catch on soon, It's got it all - media blackout, evil corporations, global apocalypse, some 'experts', and some science-y sounding terms. http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

Anyone hear about this, know anything, is it possible, likely, unlikely etc? I'm hearing rumblings and just wondering.

No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change - Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming Event (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More hysteria alleviated.

I just watched a show called Dive to the Bermuda Triangle on The Discovery Channel. I noticed what I believe to be a huge error in their logic. I figured a google search would turn up plenty of physicists lambasting them for the error, but only found many people regurgitating the same BS. So, I...

Methane on Mars could signal life

Another way that the sky is falling can be found here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040113080810.htm Pardon me while I go run in a circle, shouting in terror. Or not.

In an article published in the September issue of Geology, Gregory Ryskin, associate professor of chemical engineering, suggests that huge combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped in stagnant bodies of water and suddenly released could have killed off the majority of marine life and...