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"The process can turn gasified coal, natural gas, methane from landfills, and gas derived from biomass into synthetic diesel, gasoline, and aviation fuels. The resulting F-T fuels are high performing and clean burning, and can be used in blends or neat." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Methane gas is generated by bacteria that decompose organic matter in oxygen-poor environments, and it is emitted most significantly from landfills, the digestive tracts of cattle, and fermenting rice paddies. methane is also the principal component of natural gas. The concentration of methane gas in the atmosphere has doubled over the past two hundred years, an increase that is largely the result of the expansion of animal husbandry and rice cultivation, the enormous number of landfills, and leaking natural gas pipelines." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"It is just one of more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco including formaldehyde, cyanide, arsenic, carbon monoxide, methane, asbestos, ammonia and benzene.9 If you ever made the mistake of smoking, think back to the very first time you inhaled. For many, it was a horrible experience that led to a major coughing fit. Your body is not stupid. It knows when something is wrong. It was rejecting the poison of the cigarette." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Among the objective measurements have been the numbers of incidences per hour and day; the quantities of gas ejected per incident; the proportions of hydrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, methanethiol and other gases; even propulsion force and noise levels. In addition, subjective measurements of odor have been made by professional "odor judges." Despite these fine efforts, researchers have not completely identified the "flatulence factor" in soybeans and have been unable to come up with definitive solutions to the problem." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"We could easily build phones with environmental add-ons that measure temperature, COz and methane levels, or even the presence of biotoxins. Such a phone might even be built by its users, spinning off from current open-source mobile-phone design projects. The Earth Phone Web site would mix what you witness with what thousands or millions of other people around the world witness. It would give us far better knowledge of what's happening on our planet environmentally than could be gathered with satellites and the handful of government and academic sensor networks alone." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "With the help of biotechnology, we can create pools of hacked bacteria that spit out hydrogen, tanks of tweaked fungus that convert garbage into methane, and vats of tame microbes that allow us to design machines and structures with natural materials that resemble shells and spider silk. Real concerns remain about the safety of bioengineered organisms, but the best way to realize the sustainability benefits of biotechnology while protecting the planet and ourselves is for all of us to understand the technology and to demand the best practices possible." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"According to the EPA, the world's livestock are responsible for 25 percent of the world's anthropogenic methane emissions (those that are based in human activity).43 Once again, however, when challenged, the U.S. meat industry manages to maintain its unique perspective. s that so? "[It's a] myth that U.S. cattle produce large amounts of methane, a 'greenhouse' gas, thereby contributing significantly to possible global warming problems." —National Cattlemen's Beef Association49 "Livestock account for 15 percent to 20 percent of (overall) global methane emissions." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"NutraSweet®, for example, contains Formaldehyde, L-Phenylalanine, Acetaldehyde, Benzaldhyde, methane, Dimethoxy, Propanone, Ethane, Propane, Benezene, Paraformaldehyde, L-Phenylalanine, L-Aspartic acid, Oxazolidinecarboxylic acid, and many more deadly chemicals. Even if you don't know any of these poisons, the next time you eat or drink anything that contains neotame, aspartame or sucralose, remember that there is nothing natural about them at all. None of these chemicals are suitable for human consumption. Formaldehyde alone is a powerful cancer-causing agent." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"When trees are simply cut and not bumed, they provide wonderful food for the earth's proliferating termite population, which produces methane as a by-product of the digestion of wood. Termites are considered responsible for adding millions of tons of methane to the atmosphere annually. Scientists estimate that the methane content of the atmosphere has doubled in the last two himdred years. Finally, the stripping of the land and desertification that are concomitants of livestock grazing result in increased dust in the air." - Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Get the book.)

"The result of this fermenting in the intestine is a gaseous mixture consisting primarily of nitrogen (N2), oxygen (02), carbon dioxide (C02), hydrogen (H2), and methane (CH4). These gases are all odorless and colorless. Stinky gas (the kind that smells like rotten eggs) is caused by sulfur-producing foods. So which foods produce the most sulfur? An experiment on five healthy men on five different diets for ten days each showed that over fifteen times more sulfur was produced with the meat diet than with the vegetarian diet." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.) "Fermentation of carbohydrates produces odorless gasses: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane. The most common source of undigested carbohydrates, and therefore troublesome gas, is the milk sugar lactose, from dairy products. Two undigestible sugars, raffinose and stachyose, found in beans, are notorious sources of gas. Foul odors are from putrefaction and the release of sulfur compounds. Offensive flatus is an important indication of something wrong inside your body Dietary derived sulfur is involved in the cause of heart disease, cancer, colitis, and death." - John A. McDougall, Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Get the book.)

"In the 1920s Getman chemists modified the Haber-Bosch process to use methane as the feedstock for producing ammonia. Because Germany lacked narural gas fields, the more efficient process was not commercialized until 1929 when Shell Chemical Company opened a plant at Pittsburg, California to convert cheap natural gas into cheap fertilizer. The technology for making ammonia synthesis the dominant means of fixing atmospheric nitrogen arrived just in time for the industrial stagnation of the Depression. Ammonia plant construction began again in earnest in the run-up to the Second World War." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Farm machinery churns a significant portion of greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere—and on top of that, cow flatulence adds abnormal quantities of methane, compounding the greenhouse problem before the equipment even enters the picture. But if we don't want to give up burgers—and we don't have to!—how can we remove ourselves from this cycle of environmental degradation? By buying sustainable meats. What happens on a sustainably run ranch?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Known deposits contain up to three thousand times the amount of methane in the atmosphere right now.50 methane is twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas. At sixteen hundred feet below sea level, it's stable at 41°F, but escapes if heated only two degrees more.51 These deposits have the potential to release more than 350 billion tons of methane into the atmosphere.52 This may alter the whole global-warming discussion. William Dillon, a scientist with the U.S." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Fire damp or fulminating damp, which was methane, killed by violent explosion or by postconflagra-tion suffocation through buildup of after damp, or carbon monoxide. J. S. Haldane was part of a long lineage of British scientists who felt it their duty to address the practical dangers of the collieries. Not only had Humphry Davy contributed his safety lamp, but Davy's most famous student, Michael Faraday, together with the tenowned geologist Charles Lyell, had also headed a governmental investigation of one of the majot nineteenth-century mine explosions." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"It is now possible to capture the methane produced from the decomposition of organic wasre and strip away the carbon to make pure hydrogen fuel. We can actually turn our waste into energy! One important wrinkle in the hydrogen solution fabric is that the current energy industry Pooh-Bahs want to develop so-called "black" hydrogen technologies by extracting the gas from fossil fuel sources. But that would further contribute to untenable levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So why develop black hydrogen and continue to pollute and warm the planet when we don't have to?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Carbon disulfide falls somewhere in between methane and carbon tetrachloride. It does indeed occur in nature but only in trace amounts and, even then, under rather unusual environmental conditions. Carbon disulfide can sometimes be found, for instance, near the mouth of an active volcano. Oceanic carbon disulfide can be detected as well, possibly as a metabolic by-product of certain planktons." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"At this level of warming, as chapter 5 showed, oceanic methane hydrate release becomes a serious possibility, catapulting us into the ultimate mass extinction apocalypse of six degrees. The lesson is as clear as it is daunting: if we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees. So can we make it?" - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "This will stabilise COz concentrations at around 400 parts per million (or 450 ppm 'CGyequivalent' - that is, if the warming effect of all greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide is expressed in C02 terms). If concentrations rise above this level, the chances of coming in under two degrees diminish accordingly. This target must be subject to continual revision in the light of new scientific information, and may well need to be revised downwards." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "C Peak global emissions by 2050 550 ppm Degree change Actual temperature in Celsius Action needed C02 target Threshold for oceanic methane hydrate release... Five degrees 4.1-5.0°C Allow constantly rising emissions 650 ppm Threshold for elimination of most life on Earth... Six degrees 5.1-5.8°C Allow very high emissions 800 ppm The table illustrates how hopelessly inconsistent current climate policies are - even of some major environmental groups." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Katz's ocean core suggested that massive avalanches had tumbled down the continental shelves, explosively releasing methane hydrates in enormous quantities. Here was a possible smoking gun: direct evidence of a 55-million-year-old gas blast which had perhaps helped catapult the Earth into an extreme greenhouse state." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Perhaps methane bubbled up from tundra bogs and trapped the heat of the sun. Perhaps ice sheets broke off from the Antarctic and cooled the oceans. Maybe a glacier melted into the North Atlantic, creating a massive freshwater lake that suddenly interrupted the ocean's delivery of warm tropical water to the north. It's fitting that hard, cold proof was eventually found in hard, cold ice. In the early 1970s, climatologists discovered that some of the best records of historic weather patterns were filed away in the glaciers and ice plateaus of northern Greenland." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Constituents: 3—5% curcuminoids [1, 2] (yellow colored, alcohol-soluble dicinnamoyl methane derivatives which cannot be steam-vaporized), consisting mainly of curcumin (di-feruloylmethane), monodesmethoxycurcumin and bisdesmethoxycurcumin (according to DAC, not less than 3.0%, calculated as curcumin). Several other diarylheptanes [3, 4] and diarylpentanes [4] have also been detected. The drug contains 2—7% essential oil (according to DAC, API, and PPRC, not less than 3.0%, 4.0%, and 7." - Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier, Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis (Get the book.)

"Geological Survey, succinctly summarizes it this way: Methane trapped in marine sediments as a hydrate represents such an immense carbon reservoir that it must be considered a dominant factor in estimating unconventional energy resources; the role of methane as a "greenhouse" gas also must be carefully assessed.53 He further postulates that methane hydrate may cause landslides on the continental slope: Seafloor slopes of 5 degrees and less should be stable on the Atlantic continental margin, yet many landslide scars are present." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Concentrations of atmospheric methane are now nearly triple what they were when they began rising a century ago. The primary reason is beef production. According to the EPA, the world's livestock are responsible for 25 percent of the world's anthropogenic methane emissions (those that are based in human activity).43 Once again, however, when challenged, the U.S. meat industry manages to maintain its unique perspective. s that so? "[It's a] myth that U.S. cattle produce large amounts of methane, a 'greenhouse' gas, thereby contributing significantly to possible global warming problems." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"If they did not break down the carbon in plant bodies and release it back to the atmosphere as methane, oxygen levels would rapidly build up to life-insupportable levels. This kind of breakdown occurs at high rates in bogs or wetland areas. Wetland plants act much like chimneys that can control the amount of gas flowing through them, funneling methane through their bodies, releasing it from the wetland.77 If wetlands lose significant numbers of their plants or if significant numbers of wetlands are destroyed, water toxins cannot be processed, methane emissions are affected." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"Applying this guideline, the proper Lewis structure of methane is shown in Figure 3.6. Note that if we count electrons, the Lewis structure of methane has eight (two electrons in each of the four covalent bonds drawn as lines). This is what we expect; the carbon contributes four valence electrons and the four hydrogens contribute one each. Also shown is the Lewis structure of ammonia, NH3, used as a fertilizer and in some cleaning solutions (count the electrons in the structure and check against what is expected)." - Bryan Hanson, PhD, Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry And Therapeutic Action (Get the book.)

"Only one-third to two-thirds of the population exhibit this so-called methanogenesis, but those who do will show a rise in breath methane that seems to parallel the rise in breath hydrogen. The ability to simultaneously test for methane is a bonus for your doctor. Methanogenesis has been shown to be correlated with various gastrointestinal diseases, mcluding Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, IBS, diverticulosis and polyposis. The presence of methane therefore may signal that your symptoms come from serious problems instead of or in addition to LI." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.) "Machines have recendy come onto the market that can simultaneously analyze both the hydrogen and methane in your breath samples. methane gas is produced by a different set of colonic bacteria from those that produce the hydrogen because they work on the hydrogen and carbon dioxide gases that result from the other bacteria's fermentation of lactose and similar undigested carbohydrates. Only one-third to two-thirds of the population exhibit this so-called methanogenesis, but those who do will show a rise in breath methane that seems to parallel the rise in breath hydrogen." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.)

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