Oddbean new post about login | logout You might have thought that while it was quite common that #water #infrastructure might suffer from leaks, but to be honest I was under the impression that the #gas infrastructure might be better maintained (for obvious reasons).... how wrong I was - a massive leak of #mehtane from a Wales & West utilities pipeline was spotted from space. The country really is fall apart! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66811312
@43d7c4ea and they want to transport hydrogen using gas pipes? O M G A gas which is exponentially more volatile than natural gas, has no smell, and even whilst burning it isn’t visible to the human eye.
@43d7c4ea Have they fixed the leak? Nothing here to tell us.
@43d7c4ea this article very much focuses on the wonders of technology and research, but beyond these bald statistics in the opening lines there is little to explain and spell out to the reader just how much methane leaks are driving global warming: ‘Methane has 28 times the heating potential of CO2. It is responsible for about 30% of the rise in global temperatures.’ Academics working on grants spotting dangers that private industry already know exist, but aren’t revealing to us.