RE: Methane leak environmental disaster playing out in Southern California
January 1, 2016 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2016 at 10:11 am by Anomalocaris.)
That's too hysterical. The numbers do not add up.
California pumps out around 150 -200 million metric tons of green house gas in CO2 equivalents from all sources during a normal year. The three big regulated utilities in the state alone pumps out close to 100 million tons just from generating electricity. This leak adds 50 tons of excess methane an hour, or roughly half a million tons of excess methane even if it went on for a full year. Even on the short term X72 basis it would add less than 20% to CA's emission in CO2 equivalents. On long term it is less than 10%.
California pumps out around 150 -200 million metric tons of green house gas in CO2 equivalents from all sources during a normal year. The three big regulated utilities in the state alone pumps out close to 100 million tons just from generating electricity. This leak adds 50 tons of excess methane an hour, or roughly half a million tons of excess methane even if it went on for a full year. Even on the short term X72 basis it would add less than 20% to CA's emission in CO2 equivalents. On long term it is less than 10%.
