Methane leak environmental disaster playing out in Southern California
January 1, 2016 at 7:20 am
There’s a burgeoning environmental disaster playing out in Southern California. In late October, the Southern California Gas Company detected an underground methane leak spewing an estimated 110,000 lbs of gas per hour into Aliso Canyon. Since it discovered the problem, the company has evacuated an estimated 1,700 people and closed two schools. This is a man-made natural catastrophe that may well turn out to be larger in scale than the BP oil spill.
The leak is normally invisible, but an infrared video taken by the Environmental Defense Fund captured the massive leak and the methane escaping from it at multiple points.
Pound-for-pound, methane is about 21x more potent than CO2 over a 100-year cycle, and as much as 72x more potent within shorter timeframes.
Current estimate of the total gas leak is around 800,000 metric tons. That’s enough methane gas to boost California’s estimated methane emissions by 25% for the year — and bear in mind, this leak is thought to have begun on October 23.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/22007...thane-leak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KB-9UBCJUY
The leak is normally invisible, but an infrared video taken by the Environmental Defense Fund captured the massive leak and the methane escaping from it at multiple points.
Pound-for-pound, methane is about 21x more potent than CO2 over a 100-year cycle, and as much as 72x more potent within shorter timeframes.
Current estimate of the total gas leak is around 800,000 metric tons. That’s enough methane gas to boost California’s estimated methane emissions by 25% for the year — and bear in mind, this leak is thought to have begun on October 23.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/22007...thane-leak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KB-9UBCJUY
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