Gas Flaring Declined in 2020, Study Finds (nytimes.com) 32
Gas flaring worldwide decreased by 5 percent in the pandemic year, mostly because of lower demand for oil, according to a recent report from the World Bank. From a report: While the overall drop was expected, the report offered a detailed picture of the flaring activities around the world, with steep declines in some areas, like the United States, and surprising increases in others, notably China. Flaring occurs when the gas that emerges with crude oil is burned off rather than captured. That burning emits carbon dioxide, a gas that is the main contributor to climate change. According to World Bank officials, flaring adds roughly 400 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions to the atmosphere every year. According to the report, Russia was responsible for more flaring overall than any other country in 2020, contributing 15 percent of the global total. But within Russia, there were areas of progress. Burning continued to decrease in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, where flaring volumes have dropped by nearly 80 percent over the previous 15 years.
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Orange Fan Mad !
Poop on Wall !!!
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When there is internal fighting which side do you take?
a. Flip on a dime with Biden?
b. Stick to the propaganda?
c. Deny ever being against the wall?
"Rep. Ilhan Omar rips Biden admin over reported plans to resume border wall construction"
https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/... [nypost.com]
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It was a trick question, the answer is (a) and (c): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
I assure you... in 2-3 years from now Democrats will be pro-wall, pro-Private Prison and pro everything else they stood against to demonize the outsider.
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Orange man bad
Managed baron?
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Awesome
Re: The meeting of a liberal (Score:1)
Correct.
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I have a fantasy about a TV show where a liberal and conservative sit down together and talk things out. It won't be easy because most conservatives are mentally retarded, having watched decades of blatantly deceptive propaganda. Their brain had a choice - learn or die. It chose to die. Sad.
Anyway, it would be nice if we could sit down together and talk like real people. Remember when you were real people? Before you tried overturning an election by smearing your shit on the walls of the US Capitol? Seems like a long time ago....
It sounds like you yourself are not ready to talk like real people. Just sayin'...
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It won't be easy because most conservatives are mentally retarded, having watched decades of blatantly deceptive propaganda.
Have you seen "liberal" (ie, hardline-authoritarian) US media these decades?
Both are cults of the worst kind. Both love insulting people and getting them beaten, fired from jobs, bankrupted, jailed -- for not confirming to whatever insane beliefs their side preaches, be it a bearded man in a sky or 53rd gender.
Oil companies need aquisition money (Score:1)
They're anticipating buying up all the renewables. We're going to keep see the price of gas rise, and pathetic cover stories to justify it, despite the decrease in demand.
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Believe it or not, a lot of petroleum companies have seen the writing on the wall. There is a push to not only reduce flaring every year, but some fracking fleets are converting to use flare gas to power their equipment while on location.
That's not to say that these companies are eager to part ways with the production and use of petroleum products... but the reality is, we are still going to need oil and gas for a pretty good while until the alternatives mature. There's an argument to be made that even a su
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We're going to keep see the price of gas rise, and pathetic cover stories to justify it, despite the decrease in demand.
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Believe it or not, a lot of petroleum companies have seen the writing on the wall.
Privately they saw the writing on the wall years ago, but publicly they're doing everything they can to convince people that not only is there no writing, there's no wall either. "Strategy is avoiding revealing that you're out of ammunition by continuing to fire".
Re: the internet in year 2000 and 2021 = day and n (Score:1)
So, where is your own Internet 2.0?
I'm waiting for you to code it.
I'd honestly try it.
Cause, you know, nobody here is even disagreeing with you. We're literally just downmodding you for being annoying with it instead of active. Meaning you harm your own cause.
If you'd post a link to something that makes things better. Just one attractive thing. Then you'd be loved.
Come on, I'm literally coding shit to make the world better, which would not only solve your problems but the problems that cause the problems th
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You may have noticed some mechanisms that can remove large amounts of water vapour from the atmosphere on quite short timescales.
Re: Look, you fuck sticks (Score:1)
No, vapor literally is not a gas. It is a fog. A type of aerosol, of liquid particles in gaseous air. A type of heterogeneous mixture.
And you really twist everything with maevolent concealment and false redefinitions, until it fits your agenda, don't you?
You're a real smart one, aren't you?
P.S.: (Score:1)
And it isn't even your fucking agendy, I might add.
You're literally a pawn in a game your own enemies play with you.
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You must have not received a lot of attention as a child.
Re: Look, you fuck sticks (Score:1)
Also, you're triggered. Get a therapy.
Re:Look, you fuck sticks (Score:4, Insightful)
[ref needed]
This reference says you're wrong, water vapor feedback accounts for about half of the climate change impact of CO2. H2P and CO2 are tied for top spot in impact upon climate change.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/ea... [nasa.gov]
There are other wrong statements here:
H2O isn't a very effective greenhouse gas, there's just a lot of it. CH4 does not contribute more than CO2 in total, because there's 200x less of it in the atmosphere. CH4 is however much worse on a per-molecule basis (hence the need to flare).
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I need to correct my statement - water vapor feedback accounts for about ~half of climate change, the other ~half going to CO2
Wasted energy (Score:3)
I always thought it odd to just "throw away" all that wonderful natural gas fuel. But then I thought about it more- it probably is too expensive to try and capture, purify, and transport it. So I assumed it is mostly an economic issue; turned out I was mostly right...
The reality is there isn't enough infrastructure to store the gas, and burning it off is much better than just releasing it to the atmosphere (since it is mostly methane, which is a really bad greenhouse gas). And, it often does cost more to try and save it.
This is an interesting and informative article:
https://fossilfuel.com/gas-fla... [fossilfuel.com]
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Natural gas *can* be converted to synthetic liquid fuels. Presumably it's not done in these situations because it's not economical for dealing with intermittent flows of gas and flaring the gas is free. But if you had to pay for the environmental effect of flaring the gas, the economics might look different.
I've read that some cryptocurrency operations are interested in opportunistically using gas that would be otherwise flared as an energy source.
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No, flaring off is the old way of getting rid of natural gas. Nowadays it's actually worthwhile to capture the gas and sell it. It's why in North America. natural gas prices plummeted despite rising sharply everywhere else in the world.
In North America, fracking is common, which releases a lot of natural gas, which is captured and sold off. In other places, natural gas reserves dwindled resulting in the price discrepancy to the point it's worthwhile to capture the natural gas and export it to other countrie
Is Less Flaring Good or Bad? (Score:1)
You only have 3 real choices with the gas from an oil well:
Let it leak out into the air, which from a p
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There's a 4th option: don't produce the oil in the first place, keeping all of the fossil fuels both oil and gas, in the ground.
Wooky farts (Score:2)