Satellites are playing a growing role in identifying methane sources as the international community focuses on curbing emissions.
      • ForestOrca@kbin.social
        15·
        10 months ago

        The resolution isn’t great for the free account, and one can definitely see where the methane emissions are coming from. I checked a few of the oil fields in my state. :-( At least it’s not as bad as TX. smh

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
          7·
          10 months ago

          There’s also something of a tradeoff between spatial and temporal resolution. There are instruments with much higher spatial resolution but don’t get anything like daily updates

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    10 months ago

    because i am an idiot, i thought satellites were somehow causing methane emissions and was super curious how that was possible.

    It isn’t, i am as i said stupid

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      5·
      10 months ago

      Also leaking oil and gas infrastructure, as well as rice paddies among other sources. Tools like this are useful for doing things like enforcement of the methane emissions tax the US recently imposed on oil and gas facilities

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      5·
      10 months ago

      It’s methane, and in the US a methane tax on the biggest emitting oil and gas operations just went into effect

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      14·
      10 months ago

      It oxidizes after a few years; problem is that we are adding more at a rate faster than it breaks down

      • TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        How about drone strikes then? Like big undeclared man made sources of methane get a drone up the corn hole.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
          2·
          10 months ago

          Three types of problems:

          • oil and gas facilities with a leak. You may release more methane by expanding the hole
          • cows. The cattle themselves are innocent. It’s the people raising them are the problem
          • insurance: one off attacks don’t do much as a result. It takes repeated and sustained harm to shut thigns down, which means you’re likely to end up up in prison
            • naeap@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              10 months ago

              Not op, but: Cows emit methane, but that’s just their natural state as they fart. The problem is how many we have in the meat production industry

              Someone correct me, but I think that was the gist.
              Or did I understand you wrong? :⁠-⁠\

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
              1·
              10 months ago

              Cows use bacteria in their digestion to break down ceulose into something they can digest. Those bacteria produce methane, which the cows burp out.

              Killing a few cows accomplishes nothing; you need to get people to stop raising them.