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. 2017 Sep 18;8:568. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00611-7

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Schematic depicting the concept of low carbon renewable natural gas produced using coalbeds as geobioreactors and as sinks for carbon capture and storage. The concenpt is intended to take advantage of the coal seams as natural geobioreactors that use biomass derived simple sugars as the carbon source for natural gas production. Coal seams also serve as a sink for sequestering microbial biomass and carbon dioxide, further lowering the carbon intensity of the gas