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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in Texas are emitting so much methane you can see it from space (fortune.com)

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in Texas are emitting so much methane you can see it from space::So much you can see it from the ISS in space.

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[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also extracting some key facts from the article:

... an instrument on board the International Space Station, [detected] about 1.5 metric tons per hour. There’s no indication of how long it lasted.

An air permit application filed with the TCEQ in January 2020 said the company expected to routinely dump LNG into the air to the tune of [60 tons] a year...

...a huge oilfield near the rocket site [is] thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.

(My paraphrasing and emphasis added.)

I'm not saying one of those isn't a lot, though I am observing that we really really really need to ramp up renewables production to offset fossil fuel demand.

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023

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