First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument - NASA
First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument - NASA
The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and
Definitely something we should be looking to fine or tax.
Yeah cuz that works sp much better than offering incentives to lower emissions.
They are functionally the same.
That said, a tax or fine would be easier to implement.
Fines and taxes are incentives. Companies will do whatever's cheapest, so you can make the good thing cheaper, or the bad thing more expensive. Both will have a similar effect, it's just a question of where the margins are.
If a company is selling something at-cost and gets taxed, then they'll have to raise prices for the consumer, but if they're getting a stimulus from the government it gets covered by tax payers. Which one ends up being the right choice depends on the product and company in question.
Remember everyone, “Natural Gas” is just methane.
Mostly. Natural gas is approximately 80% methane, with some other hydrocarbons thrown into the mix.
Ooooh, now do the US. My tax dollars are funding it after all. I demand to publish in regular public reports and periodicals who is on the naughty list. Send to the appropriate agency for enforcement.
They have already and they are some more. They're doing the globe and the article says what they found over parts of Texas. By your upvotes, you and 17 other people didn't bother to read the article.
There is a difference between naming the Permian basin briefly in an article and cataloguing, naming, and shaming the biggest polluters.
I read the article and upvoted your parent comment because I'd LOVE to get an interactive map of daily/annual emission hotspots of a quality that could be sent to local officials to demand change.
They're doing the whole planet and already have an interactive map available. FTA: https://data.carbonmapper.org/
It'll be interesting to see what China's true emissions are, as opposed to their reported number, given how they just lie about every metric (covid deaths, poverty, etc)
Well I don't see Pakistan doing anything about this, but will be happier to see if we identify other bigger offenders that will be taking steps to fix problems.
Its possible that Pakistan didn't know how big it was. Not that I think they'd be altruistic about it now, but if its large enough it is a source of energy. Columbus Ohio taps the city landfill for methane extraction and uses it to fuel city busses and dump trucks. There's even a surplus after that and that is sold at a profit to the city to local natural gas customers for heating etc. source
"Last year alone, landfill gas sold to Archaea Energy generated more than $3.5 million in revenue for SWACO [Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio], where it becomes a renewable energy source for Central Ohioans."
It looks like Pakistan is a large methane importer: "Imports In 2022, Pakistan imported $4.58B in Petroleum Gas, becoming the 27th largest importer of Petroleum Gas in the world."
If this landfill produces enough methane it would be worth it to tap it as an income/consumption stream by the local population. This satellite data may provide the number to show it would be worth doing this.
You e got a million dollar business idea right there. Run with it.
I've heard of places doing solar panels above landfills as well. So if you tap it for methane, and then put panels over it, you can get even more energy out of the space.
Finally, since the first one blew up many years ago.
Can it tell if I fart in public? Asking for a friend.
Enhance!
I care more if it can tell when I fart in my own home
It better not. I'll get arrested.