A methane leak detector that can be mounted on a drone is one of a number of projects being funded by the US Government as part of a research programme to cut the costs of the technology. The initiative from MONITOR Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is called the US Government ( MONITOR ) programme. Each technology is in the midst of two rounds of independent testing and validation over a 3-year period to demonstrate system performance. It is spending $ 100,000 m to fund 11 new projects, each of which must reach certain performance levels whilst reducing basic costs to just $3,000 per year per well site from 30 and $ 100,000 this spring .
A methane leak detector that can be mounted on a drone is one of a number of projects being funded by the US Government as part of a research programme to cut the costs of the technology. The initiative from MONITOR Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is called the US Government ( MONITOR ) programme. It is spending $ 100,000 m to fund 11 new projects, each of which must reach certain performance levels whilst reducing basic costs to just $3,000 per year per well site from 30 and $ 100,000 this spring .