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> abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to
by imhoguy 2y ago
> abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane
What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to roads as protest?
Ok, did more research:
"In 2021, fugitive U.S. methane emissions from abandoned wells were 295 kilotons—equivalent
to 8.2million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4 to 25.1 MMT, the
largest uncertainty range among the nation’s largest sources of methane (US EPA 2023)."
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-methane-measurement-guidelines-july-2023-version.pdf https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-metha...
- daedrdev 2y agoWhich is like 0.1% of us co2 emissions
- TrainedMonkey 2y agoI actually looked it up, per EPA in 2022 6343mmt of CO2 were released in U.S - https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas... So the estimate would range from 0.12% to 0.4% (for 8mmt and 25mmt respectively).
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