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imhoguy10/02/20241 replyview on HN

> abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane

What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to roads as protest?

Ok, did more research: "In 2021, fugitive U.S. methane emissions from abandoned wells were 295 kilotons—equivalent to 8.2million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4 to 25.1 MMT, the largest uncertainty range among the nation’s largest sources of methane (US EPA 2023)." https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-metha...


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daedrdev10/02/2024

Which is like 0.1% of us co2 emissions

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