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Is there a deficit of methane? Methane is 80x more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, and is responsible for 30% of Global Warming. Methane production is higher
by Maursault 4y ago
Is there a deficit of methane? Methane is 80x more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, and is responsible for 30% of Global Warming. Methane production is higher now than it has ever been. Hopefully this breakthrough leads to something useful, because we already have all the methane we could ever need.
- idlewords 4y agoMethane can be exchanged for goods and services
- frankreyes 4y agoNo, it's not the same. Producing methane from CO2 and sun is exactly the way to go green. Because we're not adding more, but just recycling methane from CO2. The issue for global warming is adding more CO2 and more methane to the atmosphere by taking it from underground, while this approach does not.
- Maursault 4y agoGot it. ><
- leoedin 4y agoThe important distinction is where the carbon comes from. If the methane comes from the ground, it's adding carbon to the carbon cycle. This is why we're in such a pickle. If the carbon comes from the air, or trees, or anything that pulled it from the air recently, then the methane is just another form of the carbon already in our atmosphere. Yes, it's a potent greenhouse gas - but it isn't a permanent one. Methane is oxidised in the atmosphere into CO2 eventually.
- Maursault 4y agoThank you. ><