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Pig Poop Helps Power Netherlands

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 - 18:29:06 - Anuradha Menon

Methane-rich pig excrement on a large Netherlands farm is being turned into electricity and partially fed into the national power grid. Horrevorts...

Methane-Producing Mineral Discovered on Mars

Monday, March 30th, 2009 - 18:32:20 - Sarah Gingichashvili

But it may not explain the presence of the gas on the Red Planet today. Surprises keep coming from Nili Fossae, a long, deep scar in the surface of...

Titan's Methane Mystery

Sunday, February 1st, 2009 - 19:44:08 - Ehud Rattner

Imagine a world where the average daytime temperature is -179C, and torrential rains of liquid methane fall from the skies, forming vast but shallow...

Chemists Create 'Powdered Methane'

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 - 16:12:15 - Ehud Rattner

Methane and natural gas are usually shipped around in pressurized pipelines and canisters. But chemists have now developed a new way to transport the...

'Flammable Ice' to be Mined for Fuel?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 - 12:12:53 - Iddo Genuth

hey call it flammable ice, and it could be the world's last great source of carbon-based fuel - assuming we can mine methane hydrates, crystal...

NASA Tests Methane Rocket Engine
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
NASA recently released details on a unique rocket engine experiment concocted in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. Unlike...