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That depends on which sources you are measuring. Many swamps produce an obnoxiously huge amount of methane, so much so you can smell it everywhere "Swamp gas".
by OrvalWintermute 4y ago
That depends on which sources you are measuring.
Many swamps produce an obnoxiously huge amount of methane, so much so you can smell it everywhere "Swamp gas".
Across the planet we have turned profligate methane producing swampland into land for cities and farmland.
- ncmncm 4y agoYet, many of these same swamplands are also sequestering carbon at a prodigious rate. People dig up and burn the peat they once sequestered it all in, for fuel. So, we would probably be better off with more of even-though-methane-burping swamplands than less.
- autosharp 4y agoWhile there might exist a lot of smelly swamps, CH4 is odorless so not a super stinky swamp smell substance.
- OrvalWintermute 4y ago> While there might exist a lot of smelly swamps, CH4 is odorless so not a super stinky swamp smell substance Swamp gas has its smell from the associated compounds made with it, just like the methane we use has its stink from Ethanethiol additives, similarly, sulfur based. Still methane though!