Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in Texas are emitting so much methane you can see it from space

Technology@lemmy.world – 658 points – 11 months ago

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in Texas are emitting so much methane you can see it from space::So much you can see it from the ISS in space.

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If you can see it from space where is the photo?

There was a link to the data in the article that you didn't read: https://data.carbonmapper.org/#13.24/31.428/-104.72174

Blue origins name checks out..

Also extracting some key facts from the article:

... an instrument on board the International Space Station, [detected] about 1.5 metric tons per hour. There’s no indication of how long it lasted.

An air permit application filed with the TCEQ in January 2020 said the company expected to routinely dump LNG into the air to the tune of [60 tons] a year...

...a huge oilfield near the rocket site [is] thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.

(My paraphrasing and emphasis added.)

I'm not saying one of those isn't a lot, though I am observing that we really really really need to ramp up renewables production to offset fossil fuel demand.

Of course, Blue Origin’s emissions pale in comparison with those from its suppliers in the natural gas industry.

Hate harder.

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