Methane

hydrocarbons like oil and natural gas liquids. Dehydrators remove the water from the harvested gas. These processes occur at well sites, compressor stations, gas processing plants, and oil storage sites. Air can be contaminated from high amounts of vented methane and volatile organic compounds from dehydrators and separators. Wastewater storage tanks can leak and contaminate soil. Wastewater storage can leak and contaminate surface and

In “Goodbye to the Climate,” Robert N. Stavins, expresses his worry about President Trump’s “America First Energy Plan”. This plan will have an effect on United States’ climate change programs, and remove the United States from the Paris agreement. This article will be used to explain content from the public goods chapter. This discussion will cover climate change, define what a public good is, the free rider problem, and tragedy of the commons and how it relates to this article. If President Trump

Flue gas treatment Leung et. al. (2014) posit that post-combustion capture methods are easily applicable for retrofitting existing plants, and require simply that carbon dioxide be isolated from flue gas generated by fossil fuel burning. However, due to the low concentrations of CO2 in flue gas, the system efficiency is poor and it must be operational for long periods of time until CO2 receptacles are filled. This incurs heightened operation costs for maintaining the functioning machinery. Oxyfuel

Abstract Are you environmentally conscious? Do you believe that the planet and the creatures dwelling on it should be treated with respect? If so, there is a way to effectively stand up to the industry that is causing some of the most ecological abuse in our world today. After taking AP Environmental science this year, and studying a variety of sources including a novel, two documentaries, one oral presentation, and a handful of web articles, I have come to the conclusion that factory farming is

powers New York City’s electrical grid. While not as directly harmful, natural gas is still a fossil fuel and therefore still has a carbon footprint. The main environmental benefit of converting natural gas (mostly methane) to hydrogen gas is to avoid unpleasant byproducts of methane combustion such as VOC’s, rather than greenhouse gas mitigation. New York State is all connected to a single electrical grid operated by NYISO (New York Independent System Operator), so the greenhouse gas emissions must

Mr. Wisland, I have been doing research on food waste in Athens, Ohio. The goal of my research is to find a plausible solution to the waste. To begin the gathering of information, I searched through the Ohio University ArticlesPlus Database to find any journals that I could find pertaining to the state of America’s food waste, how we can make a difference, and what has already been implemented to make a change. This was my way of looking at the amount of food wasted from a bigger perspective. I

In January 200l the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of scientific experts assembled by the United Nations, released a frightening report on the potential consequences of the climate phenomenon known as global warming. The panel found that the 1990s had been the warmest decade on record and predicted that temperatures will rise anywhere from 2.5 to 10.4 degrees around the world over the next century, causing changes to global weather patterns. Indeed, unusual and frequently

Global warming refers to a clear and constant increase in the temperature of the earth’s climate. Scientists agreed that there are several reasons caused the global warming. For example, human activities, such as mining, industry and agriculture contributed to release the carbon from soil. Soil is rich in precipitated carbon content it saved thousands years ago, and green house effect. United Nations held many conferences to discuss global warming, control it and eliminate it, many decisions made

Global warming is the increase in the earth’s atmospheric temperature. Naturally occurring gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and water vapor trap heat from the sun, preventing it from leaving the atmosphere. These naturally occurring gases along with human made hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs), per fluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) are collectively known as greenhouse gases. This essay will explain why global warming is fast becoming a cause for concern and why

Legacy, what is legacy? Legacy is something that has been passed down to you at some period. Building a legacy does not happen overnight, like Rome was not built in a day, good legacy’s take patience, perseverance, hard work, and a bit of luck too. Legacies can be for the good of the people, like when woman got the right to vote. It only took 100 years, but at least they got the right. But then again I’m not saying that legacies are always good, they also can be bad. Take Adolf Hitler’s case, Hitler