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Microbes may produce marketable methane gas from old coal

April 10, 2011 /

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New scientific research has a pair of energy companies betting that the future of the U.S. natural gas industry lies in persuading microscopic bugs to treat old coal deposits like all-you-can eat buffets.

Coal, researchers have found, is full of microbes that consume the fossil fuel and break it down into methane gas. Two companies want to take advantage of this naturally occurring phenomenon on a large scale to create vast amounts of natural gas in energy-rich places like Wyoming.

By Mead Gruver, Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-04-05-methane-microbes-coal.htm

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