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272,000 sites surveyed. 0.2% of the sites account for 46% of emissions. 272,000 sites * 0.002 = 544 sites. 544 sites account for 46% of the state's emissions. Yet the article states, "A handful of operations are responsible for the vast majority of methane emissions."
Sounds like "a handful" to me. In as much as a metaphorical measurement can be accurate..
272,000 sites surveyed. 0.2% of the sites account for 46% of emissions. 272,000 sites * 0.002 = 544 sites. 544 sites account for 46% of the state's emissions. Yet the article states, "A handful of operations are responsible for the vast majority of methane emissions."
> 0.2% of the sites account for 46% of emissions. Sounds like "a handful" to me. In as much as a metaphorical measurement can be accurate..
Extremely disproportionate, but not a vast majority.
So what can be done about landfills? Burying stuff seems expensive/energy intensive.
And you can recover the methane from them, what requires a small investment, and has a low, but positive ROI.
The most interesting sentence isn't the headline, but rather: > Landfills accounted for 41% of the source emissions it identified, manure management 26% and oil and gas operations 26%. i.e. perhaps the best reason to recycle or compost is to avoid the methane emissions from natural decomposition.
So what can be done about landfills? Burying stuff seems expensive/energy intensive.
Some very smart friends of mine do this with airplanes to find leaks in natural gas plants and pipelines: http://kairosaerospace.com/
The most interesting sentence isn't the headline, but rather: > Landfills accounted for 41% of the source emissions it identified, manure management 26% and oil and gas operations 26%. i.e. perhaps the best reason to recycle or compost is to avoid the methane emissions from natural decomposition.
Compost IS natural decomposition, my dude.
So what can be done about landfills? Burying stuff seems expensive/energy intensive.
In Madison, WI, [1] they create enough power to offset all the energy the county operations use, plus create CNG for their heavy equipment at the landfill to run on.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_gas_utilization
[1] https://isthmus.com/news/news/dane-county-might-sell-the-met...
The most interesting sentence isn't the headline, but rather: > Landfills accounted for 41% of the source emissions it identified, manure management 26% and oil and gas operations 26%. i.e. perhaps the best reason to recycle or compost is to avoid the methane emissions from natural decomposition.
Compost IS natural decomposition, my dude.
Some very smart friends of mine do this with airplanes to find leaks in natural gas plants and pipelines: http://kairosaerospace.com/
This project is also using aircraft: https://avirisng.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html