Posted on 06/14/2022 7:13:03 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Possibly the world’s biggest leak of methane has been discovered coming from a coalmine in Russia, which has been pouring out the carbon dioxide equivalent of five coal-fired power stations.
About 90 tonnes an hour of methane were being released from the mine in January, when the gas was first traced to its source, according to data from GHGSat, a commercial satellite monitoring company based in Canada. Sustained over the course of a year, this would produce enough natural gas to power 2.4m homes.
More recently, the mine appears to be leaking at a lower rate, of about a third of the highest rate recorded in January, but the leak is thought to have been active for at least six months before January’s survey.
The leak, which comes from the Raspadskaya mine in Kemerovo Oblast, the largest coalmine in Russia, is about 50% bigger than any other leak seen by GHGSat since it started its global satellite monitoring in 2016. The company believes it is bigger than any leak yet traced to a single source.
Brody Wight, director of energy, landfill and mines at GHGSat, said that methane was an often overlooked side-effect of coalmining that added to the climate impact of burning coal. The Raspadskaya leak would add about 25% to the greenhouse gas emissions of burning any coal produced from the mine, he estimated.
“We are seeing an increase in methane from this site generally, which could be the result of increased coal production, linked to global trends in coal use,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide ...
Looks like we may have less time left than we were told, 9 years, or 12 years, or 7 years, or 6 months, something like that.
Cow farts to blame.
Someone alert Greta.
Hope they can flare it off or we’re toast!
It doesn’t affect the climate. The planet has been doing this for eons.
The beds of methane hydrates in the sea dwarf this “leaking coal mine.”
That’s why you burn the methane. Its other name is natural gas.
Free natural gas!
Stacy Abrams grade Golden Corral biological warfare ...
Light a match.
I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
The Planet is leaking everywhere
Flaring 90 tonnes/hour would be one heck of a Devil’s Cigarette Lighter.
and it’s not captured as much as possible to be used as local energy because?
Bingo. Clathrathe is what it is. It is not about the environment, it is about control. Never forget that, and the sooner we face this fraud, the sooner we will stave off total control.
I am eating lots of legumes, am I contributing to global warming?
Do not smoke at work
I hear Joe Biden leaks a lot of methane.
I guess the smoking light is not lit.
Damn, bag it up and sell it!
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