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From the University of Colorado, CIRES, NOAA together with NIST:

Detecting Methane from Miles Away
University of Colorado, CIRES, NOAA together with NIST squad harnesses Nobel Prize engineering to abide by distant gas leaks

A novel champaign musical instrument developed past times a collaborative squad of researchers tin quantify marsh gas leaks equally tiny equally 1/4 of a human exhalation from most a mile away. CIRES, NOAA, CU Boulder, together with NIST scientists revamped together with “ruggedized” Nobel Prize Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation technology—turning a complex, room-sized collection of instruments into a sleek, 19-inch portable unit of measurement to tote into the champaign close petroleum together with gas operations. The musical instrument collects precise, nonstop data, providing game-changing information critical for security manufacture operations together with controlling harmful greenhouse gas emissions. 

The team, funded past times an ARPA-E grant focusing on “high risk/high reward” science, published their interrogation this calendar week inwards the mag Optica along amongst a companion newspaper on the leak-finding routines inwards the mag Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 

Detecting marsh gas together with other gas leaks from petroleum together with gas operations has traditionally been hampered past times high costs together with technological constraints, which accept express efforts to supply continuous monitoring. The novel technology, which relies on a Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation organization called a dual frequency comb spectrometer, provides a much-needed solution: extremely efficient, accurate information collection at a fraction of the damage of previous technologies./“This musical instrument is especially special because it’s precise, autonomous, together with continuous,” said Caroline Alden, CIRES researcher together with a co-lead writer of the study. “Other technologies similar aircraft flybys or physically traveling to sampling sites set a problem—if a leak occurs betwixt sampling events, you lot missed it.”....MORE