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Hoping to export technology under the banner of fighting global warming, the Bush administration said Wednesday that it will provide seed money for businesses to help other nations use their own methane gas emissions as cheap fuel.
The plan calls for spending up to $53 million to spur private companies to spend potentially billions of dollars helping transfer technology to an initial group of seven countries. Technology commonly used to remove, store and use methane to generate electricity in the United States has so far focused on landfills, natural gas and oil systems and coal mines.
Because of this, methane emissions in the United States were 5 percent lower in 2001 than in 1990.
