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Blog Archives
What is bioenergy?
Bioenergy is a broad category which includes all energy generated from burning materials produces by the biosphere. While humans have obtained energy from such sources throughout their history, the amounts of energy that industrial society now demands cannot possibly be … Continue reading
What are methane hydrates?
Methane hydrates (also know as gas hydrates or clathrate hydrates) are a crystalline solid where the methane molecules are each trapped in a cage of frozen water molecules. Methane hydrates are stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater … Continue reading
What is Carbon Capture and Storage?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technology aimed at reducing the climate-destabilising impact of burning fossil fuels by capturing the carbon dioxide (a ‘greenhouse gas‘) and storing it somewhere, usually underground. Despite CCS being an unproven technology, it is … Continue reading
What are Tar Sands?
Tar sands is a heavy mixture of sand, clay, water and oil that requires mining and complex upgrading and processing in order to produce synthetic crude oil. Although found in a number of countries globally, including Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, … Continue reading
What is happening at Airth?
Dart Energy has submitted planning applications (see: P/12/0521/FUL and 12/00576/FUL)to Falkirk and Stirling County Councils, in Scotland, to build 14 new well pads with 22 new wells, around 20 km of pipelines to connect the sites, a gas processing facility … Continue reading
What is happening in Lancashire?
Cuadrilla Resources have own a licence block (PEDL 165) which covers a over 1000 square kilometres, including most of the Fylde Peninsular. Cuadrilla have obtained planning permission from Lancashire County Council for 5 test drilling sites in the area. So … Continue reading
What is Shale Gas?
Shale Gas is methane (natural gas) which is trapped in impermeable shale rock deep underground, unlike conventional natural gas which is in permeable rocks, such as sandstone. The gas cannot flow through the shale, so simply drilling a well, as … Continue reading
What is fracking?
Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to fracture rock underground, usually for the purpose of extracting oil or gas. It is used particularly often and intensely for the extraction of Shale Gas and Coal Bed Methane. It is associated with … Continue reading
What is Underground Coal Gasification?
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process for exploiting coal that cannot be mined because the seams are too deep, thin or fractured. The process involves using the same sort of drilling technology usually used for fracking to get air/oxygen … Continue reading
What is Coal Bed Methane?
Coal Bed Methane is methane (natural gas) trapped in coal seams underground. To extract the gas, after drilling into the seam, it is necessary to pump large amounts of water out of the coal seam to lower the pressure. It … Continue reading