Methane Solution

With cattle feedlots pumpin’ out methane like there’s no tomorrow, how exactly can we ensure that there will be a tomorrow? Prometheus Energy, a 27-employee company based in Redmond, Wash., proposes that methane be turned into a liquid natural gas, and it’s developed the technology to do so. Funding for this new technology is up $20 million courtesy of the Shell Technology Ventures Fund, a fund that is linked to the largest nongovernmental producer of liquid natural gas in the world. Currently, the company collects waste gas from landfills and coal mines, turns this into methane, and then finally converts it into liquid natural gas. Seeing that this methane problem is attributed to factory farms, where’s the technology to curb America’s unhealthy appetite for beef?