A gas flare burns at an oil well site outside Williston, North Dakota. Gas flares are created when … [+] excess flammable gases are released by pressure release valves during the drilling for oi...
Tag: Methane
Vespene Energy Will Use Methane to Safely Extract BTC
A Berkeley-based startup known as Vespene Energy announced that it’s going to use the methane gas emitted by landfills to power bitcoin mining rigs, thus adding more units to the blockchain through gr...
Vespene Energy Raises $4.3M Funding to Convert Landfill Methane into Bitcoin
Berkeley-based renewable energy company Vespene Energy announced on Tuesday that it had raised $4.3 million in a funding round led by Polychain Capital and joined by other climate-focused funds. Vespe...
Vespene Energy Raises $4.3M to Turn Methane From Landfills Into Sustainable Bitcoin Mining
Vespene Energy has received $4.3 million in funding from Polychain Capital and others to continue converting methane gas from landfills into power for bitcoin mining. The company generates energy from...
Renewable Energy Company Closes $4.3M Capital Round to Convert Landfill Methane Into Bitcoin
Vespene will use the fresh capital to launch its pilot site in California, making it the first company to convert wasted landfill methane into Bitcoin, the company said. One Vespene module will take a...
Methane Emissions Reduction At The Oil Patch: How To Get There
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar MCKITTRICK, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: The sun sets beyond pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field on … [+] November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. The ...
Europe’s Warm Embrace Of LNG Raises Methane Emissions Concerns
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 09: (EDITORS NOTE: Image was created using a variable planed lens.) The … [+] natural-gas fuelled Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte po...
Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Decarbonizing Food, And Especially Meat
A two-year-old pregnant dairy cow seen at Hillside Farms in Shavertown Pennsylvania. (Photo by Aimee … [+] Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Imag...
Greenhouse Gases Trapped Nearly 50% More Heat In 2021 Than 1990
Greenhouse gases are the “apples” in the climate warming apple pie. That statement is likely causing some puzzled looks. The overly-literal reader will continue to be puzzled, but hopefully, most read...
Bitcoin Mining To Reduce Methane Emissions by 2030, Here’s How?
An ESH analyst highlights an advantage of Bitcoin mining, says could reduce methane emissions by 2030. He suggests converting Methane into Carbon Dioxide and utilizing it to power the mining rig...
Could Bitcoin Mining Actually Reduce Methane Emissions By 2030?
ESG analyst Daniel Batten argues that bitcoin mining could reduce methane emissions by up to 8.5 percent by 2030. As a greenhouse gas, methane has 80 times more potential of causing climate change tha...
Jump In Methane Emissions That Fingers Big Oil — But Wait, Not So Fast.
Extracting oil from wells in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas. Getty Images The methane bugaboo began around 2003 when a mysterious cloud of methane gas was found, by satellite, hovering above Fa...
Methane emissions surged by a record amount in 2021, NOAA says
A broken oil well pipeline gauge near Depew, Oklahoma J Pat Carter/Getty Images Global emissions of methane, the second biggest contributor to human-caused climate change after carbon dioxide, surged ...
Soaring Gas Prices Could Have Been Mitigated If Energy Sector Plugged Huge Methane Leaks, IEA Says
Topline Methane leaks from the energy sector are much higher than what national governments claim, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, adding the industry could slash emissions of the high...
Biden helping states plug orphan oil gas wells, cut methane emissions
Oil pumpjacks operate in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday announced it will send $1.15 billion to st...
2021 ranks as fifth hottest year as carbon, methane emissions rise
A Cal Fire firefighter from the Lassen-Modoc Unit watches as an air tanker makes a fire retardant drop on the Dixie Fire as trees burn on a hillside on August 18, 2021 near Janesville, California. Pat...