• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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        5 天前

        On one hand, synthetic methane is set to be rather important in the medium term future. On the other hand, bio methane is probably the worse greenhouse product at the moment.

        • Annoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cc
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          5 天前

          I mean, if it’s methane but using another process to create it, it’s still methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, that’s so far hard to regulate and very easily leak unnoticed. It’s “better” than obtaining from oil, but still, it’s methane.

          [insert methane is methane meme here]

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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            5 天前

            Specifically synthetic methane will be efficiently burned, and much of it will be burned outside the atmosphere, so it’s hardly a greenhouse risk.

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      5 天前

      I’ve been calling all fossil fuels ‘artisanal energy’. It will eventually become as practical as other handmade, small batch products.