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FETC Programs for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Author(s) -

John A. Ruether

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/600529

Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , fossil fuel , greenhouse gas removal , methane , environmental science , global warming , atmosphere (unit) , radiative forcing , carbon dioxide , nitrous oxide , climate change , greenhouse effect , combustion , natural resource economics , waste management , meteorology , climate change mitigation , engineering , chemistry , geology , economics , oceanography , physics , organic chemistry

Mark Twain once quipped that everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it. With interest in global climate change on the rise, researchers in the fossil-energy sector are feeling the heat to provide new technology to permit continued use of fossil fuels but with reduced emissions of so-called `greenhouse gases.` Three important greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, are released to the atmosphere in the course of recovering and combusting fossil fuels. Their importance for trapping radiation, called forcing, is in the order given. In this report, we briefly review how greenhouse gases cause forcing and why this has a warming effect on the Earth`s atmosphere. Then we discuss programs underway at FETC that are aimed at reducing emissions of methane and carbon dioxide

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