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> methane ... MUCH more dangerous than CO2 Eh, it's a more powerful greenhouse gas, but it's also gone after ~10 years.
by dtech 3y ago
> methane ... MUCH more dangerous than CO2
Eh, it's a more powerful greenhouse gas, but it's also gone after ~10 years.
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- XorNot 3y agoIt's still CO2 emissions at the end of the day. The issue is nuclear power is right there as the better option. At the end of the day natural gas is still liberating carbon which was locked away and won't be put back anytime soon.
- Scarblac 3y agoIts half life is about 9 years says Google, so "gone" takes a lot longer than that.
- danans 3y ago> but it's also gone after ~10 years It breaks down to CO2, so as a GHG, it's not gone at all.
- tsimionescu 3y agoMethane has approximately 28x the warming effect of CO2 in those 10 years, and ultimately it breaks down... To CO2 and water. So every ton of CH4 is like 28 tons of CO2 in the medium term, and like 1+ tons of CO2 in the long term (since water vapor is also a GHG).