[AR] Re: Liquid Methane System Safety
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:27:01 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, monsieurboo wrote:
The EPA is getting ready to issue a new rule on methane release later
this year. It goes beyond previous regulations for oil/gas producers and
affects things like storage tanks, so may have an impact on even
small-scale releases.
It's a very strong greenhouse gas, a significant contributor to warming,
and because its life in the atmosphere is only a few years, reductions in
emissions would get results quickly. And most of the man-made emissions
would not be that hard to curb. By itself it wouldn't solve the long-term
problem, but a serious reduction in methane emissions, if started soon,
would buy significant time for dealing with the much-more-difficult CO2
issue. So there's growing interest in doing that; expect rather stronger
regulatory pressure to reduce methane emissions.
For natural-gas emissions, much of the problem is leakage in production
and distribution rather than releases at the customer end, but depending
on how the rules are written, yeah, it could end up affecting even small
deliberate releases.
Henry
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