Dear Andrew, Methane is consumed by methanotrophic microbes.
Bill Reeburg at UC Irvine has done alot of work studying this. http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_22/issue_1/0001.pdf Sincerely, Oliver Wingenter On Jan 27, 4:27 am, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > Getting the methane level under control seems to be the critical task > for the next 100years. > > Is anyone aware of methane remediation techniques? > > I can think of 2: > > Ozone - the reaction of methane with ozone is the main way it is > broken down at present. By adding ozone to the stratosphere, we could > dramatically speed up this reaction. All the methods discussed for > H2S and SO2 should work fine for deploying ozone. > > Thermal oxidisation - by running the methane through a thermal plant > (eg a car engine) this will burn it off. Does anyone have any figures > for the % of existing methane that's burned off in power stations, > forest fires, car engines, stoves and boilers worldwide? > > A --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
