Fossil fuels articles within Nature

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• Article | 13 March 2024

  US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements

  We integrate approximately one million aerial site measurements into regional emissions inventories for six regions in the USA, finding methane emission intensities that vary by more than a factor of ten.

  • Evan D. Sherwin
  • , Jeffrey S. Rutherford
  •  & Adam R. Brandt

• Article | 18 May 2022

  Programmable heating and quenching for efficient thermochemical synthesis

  By using a programmable electric current to allow rapid pulsed heating and quenching, a non-equilibrium, continuous synthesis technique shows improved performance in thermochemical reactions, as well as lower energy costs.

  • Qi Dong
  • , Yonggang Yao
  •  & Liangbing Hu

• Article | 08 September 2021

  Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world

  A global energy system model finds that planned fossil fuel extraction is inconsistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, because the majority of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.

  • Dan Welsby
  • , James Price
  •  & Paul Ekins

• Article | 28 July 2021

  A process-based approach to understanding and managing triggered seismicity

  A multidisciplinary method for managing triggered seismicity is developed using detailed subsurface information to calibrate geomechanical and earthquake source physics models, and is applied to the Val d’Agri oil field in seismically active southern Italy.

  • Bradford H. Hager
  • , James Dieterich
  •  & Andreas Plesch

• Article | 09 September 2020

  Rare-earth–platinum alloy nanoparticles in mesoporous zeolite for catalysis

  Alloy nanoparticles of platinum and rare-earth elements are formed using zeolites with pore-wall defects, producing stable, highly active and selective catalysts for the propane dehydrogenation reaction.

  • Ryong Ryoo
  • , Jaeheon Kim
  •  & Jae Won Shin

• Outlook | 12 October 2017

  We have the technology

  Carbon capture and storage will be crucial for mitigating climate change and rebuilding the world's energy infrastructure.

  • Katherine Bourzac

• Letter | 05 October 2016

  Cobalt carbide nanoprisms for direct production of lower olefins from syngas

  Lower olefins are hydrocarbons that are widely used in the chemical industry, and can be generated from syngas by the ‘Fischer–Tropsch to olefins’ process; here, a new catalyst is described that can generate lower olefins from syngas with high selectivity, with little formation of undesirable methane.

  • Liangshu Zhong
  • , Fei Yu
  •  & Hui Wang