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Why would the natural gas be discarded? It would be available and priced like helium is now. Someone would use it. It’s not like a safe storage, efficient, fai
by SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
Why would the natural gas be discarded? It would be available and priced like helium is now. Someone would use it.
It’s not like a safe storage, efficient, fairly clean source of energy is ever going to be worthless.
- masto 7y agoIt’s discarded today. Natural gas itself is a byproduct of drilling for oil, and there are places where, due to a lack of convenient pipelines for transporting it, huge quantities of natural gas are just burned as waste. Edit: citation. It’s called “flaring”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare#Impacts_of_waste_flaring_associated_gas_from_oil_drilling_sites_and_other_facilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare#Impacts_of_waste_fla...