User talk:Andrewjlockley/Atmospheric Methane Remediation

To capture outgassing methane, I would expect that you wouldn't want white plastic sheets. Rather, you would want to temporarily increase local temperature with clear plastic sheets so that the methane would be released while you're capturing it, and then move the capture system. Clear plastic would allow vegetation under the sheets to survive, and you might even use the treated areas to establish plants that are better suited to the warming climate. To take the idea of heating the ground a step further, you might use heat pumps to warm up the ground in one area by pumping heat in from the area where methane was last extracted. Another idea is to thaw the permafrost deeper underground while the shallower layers still frozen serve as a cap, and get the underground gas out by drilling. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 05:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC) Edited slightly Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 05:19, 23 February 2009 (UTC)