While we're calibrating and configuring MethaneSAT 🛰️, here's what data we will soon deliver: 👉 high-emitting point sources 👉 aggregate emissions from small sources within a km2 area down to 3ppb 👉 methane levels from entire regions, countries and oilfields, covering 80% of production.
Tom McKarns
1mo
This is a great advancement for our enforcement of environmental regulations, which protect all of us.
Rohit Ranjan
1mo
Thanks for sharing
Soil Carbon Economy - Regeneration by Sequestration of its Dividends.
1moEDF and New Zealand - Thank you for this gift. When can the GEE developers get access? Fugitive methane around well sites and related infrastructure is simply dangerous. Venting for the safety of dilution made sense thirty or more years ago. But just as we have learned that chlorofluorocarbon in PPB remains dangerous in aggregate, CH4 can be statistically detected at PPM. 3PPB offers the ability to measure and locate the grandfathered <6mt/yr sources. Ruptures and free-rider neglect are wounds. The so-called minor sources are the death by a million paper cuts. The free ridership moment is past for anthropogenic emissions, but their spillover is to accelerate GHG release from peats, tundra, and methane hydrate forms. And that should scare the heck out of us. Lastly, the 25-year GWF for methane is a gift to fossil fuels that requires the appropriate rescale. At $30/mtCOe and a CH4 factor of 80 makes the offset cost is $2400/mtCH4. So a 6mt/yr minor source of fugitive emissions has a social climate cost of $14,000/yr. If SBTi can help ACR list avoidance methane, a 10-year zombie well closure bounty is worth $140,000 or more - inset or offset.