Methane vs CO2 Impact
The cluster debates the climate effects of methane emissions compared to CO2, focusing on methane's higher potency as a greenhouse gas and whether burning it to produce CO2 is environmentally beneficial.
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The way methane "exits" the atmosphere is by becoming CO2, so it's strictly worse.
The methane is burnt and turned into CO2, it's not released.
The methane burns off so it's "just" CO2.
Doesn't methane break down much more rapidly than CO2?
We're talking about methane not carbon.
It is if you're on the receiving end of the methane emissions :)
Not just CO2 - methane is about 25x as potent in terms of global warming as CO2
Surely the methane they produce far outweighs any carbon sink benefits
I'm not at all knowledgeable in this subject, but wouldn't those methane emissions occur, regardless of if this method is used?
Methane is a 30x stronger greenhouse gas than CO2. So if 4% of the converted methane leaked into the atmosphere, you would be worse off (from a climate heating perspective) than if you had done nothing.https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/...