How to Use methane in a Sentence

methane

noun

• It’s mostly methane, a powerful heat trap in greenhouse gas.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
• Landfill gas is forced through more than 300 membranes to separate carbon dioxide from methane.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• They’re commonly found in soils and wetlands where decaying organic matter is present and methane is abundant.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• The best of them have methane collectors that turn trash into treasure, heating homes and powering factories rather than fouling the air.
  — Bob Inglis, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Lyash justified the decision by claiming that the methane plant would be the least expensive option for the utility and its ratepayers.
  — Dorothy Slater, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Natural gas is mostly methane, a powerful heat-trapping greenhouse gas that’s formed over millions of years underground and freed via drilling into the earth.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022
• Usually, greenhouse gases are measured at the source: power plants burning natural gas or coal, cows belching methane or cars and trucks burning gasoline.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Titan also has dense clouds of hydrocarbons that burst with rain, plus a liquid-rich landscape of rivers, lakes, and ocean of liquid hydrocarbons including methane and ethane below the icy crust.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
• Investigations found that worn and broken cutting equipment created a spark that ignited accumulations of coal dust and methane gas.
  — John Raby, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2022
• Methane is cheaper than other renewable feedstocks—and plastic is a more valuable material than other products that can be made from methane, Morse explains.
  — Sarah Deweerdt, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
• So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• More than three-quarters of that methane came from stoves that were turned off.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
• And methane emissions aren’t the only hazard that stem from the landfill.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• Two new reports have bad news on methane emissions in the U.S. and worldwide.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
• The more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane, the warmer our world gets.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• That also means that the system does not produce as much methane.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023
• The production of methane is a normal part of the digestive process that cannot (nor should it) be stopped.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Some might say methane emissions, which, by a factor of 28, are more potent than CO2.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The city’s vast methane gas field extended to the spot near downtown chosen for a big school complex.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The point of the law is to remove organic waste from our landfills to reduce methane emissions and slow the need for new places to dump our waste.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Left unplugged, many wells leak climate-warming methane, brine and toxins that were used in the drilling process.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
• Most plastics are derived from crude oil, methane gas, or coal.
  — By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
• The methane and liquid oxygen will first flow into the smaller tanks on the ship, then into the larger tanks on the booster.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• Lebel and his team found that methane emissions from gas stoves in U.S. homes could have as much impact on the climate as half a million cars.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2023
• And the reservoirs behind them burp out large amounts of methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin, a huge oilfield near the rocket site, are thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.
  — Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024