California dairy farms are curbing methane emissions by converting cow manure and other organic waste into biomethane for electricity — but environmental groups say it's harming vulnerable communities and entrenching unsustainable animal agriculture.
Gonna need a source on your 1000x. I can find 27.9x the potential, per unit mass. I think my point still stands: they’re taking a problem and merely converting it into a different form of the problem, and calling it a solution.
I think you need to compare the greenhouse effect from methane as compared to that CO2, NOx and SOx released by burning off the methane. There is a reasone the EPA requires waste water treatment plants to flare off methane rather than freely releasing it.
“Let’s take all that yucky methane released by cows and make it fuel!”
“It keeps the carbon from entering the atmosphere.”
“Engines I suppose”.
“Exhaust?”
“CO2 and NOx and SOx.”
“The atmosphere.”
“I have a new fuel revenue stream.”
Methane is roughy 1000x as potent at global warming as CO2.
You may not like cattle farming, but take the win.
Gonna need a source on your 1000x. I can find 27.9x the potential, per unit mass. I think my point still stands: they’re taking a problem and merely converting it into a different form of the problem, and calling it a solution.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
I think you need to compare the greenhouse effect from methane as compared to that CO2, NOx and SOx released by burning off the methane. There is a reasone the EPA requires waste water treatment plants to flare off methane rather than freely releasing it.