Google is planning to use satellite data, AI, and its computing power to map methane emissions around the globe in a new era of climate accountability.
    • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Probably. Somebody’s got to get that promotion by launching something before the next round of layoffs.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    10·
    4 months ago

    This is really good!

    Methane is way more harmful than CO2, and what most people forget, after that it is not counted as Methane anymore but as CO2. It gets converted into CO2 and stays in the athmosphere like that.

  • lemmeout
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    4 months ago

    This is getting out of hand. What’s next? We’re gonna name and shame individual cows?

    • realitistaOP
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      4 months ago

      The majority of the big leaks come from oil and gas wells and processing and other industrial facilities, so I think Bessie is safe for now.

    • Preservedone@mastodon.social
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      4 months ago

      @lemmeout @realitista what’s next is the eco terrorist crowd wants people to eat bugs and dead bodies rather than cows…

      …if cows weren’t raised for milk and food what does these Ecoscammers expect - ok we won’t eat them, but their farts blow holes in the ozone layer… so if we stop eating them are we just going to kill the cows so they stop producing methane? These Eco people want to kill more cows than a hungry truck driver. All livestock.

      I’ll stick to cows. (Sorry!)

      • Thavron@lemmy.ca
        14·
        4 months ago

        Do you think cows magically appear out of thin air? We breed them specifically to be eaten/milked. If we stop eating them, there will simply be less breeding. It’s not like we have to kill a surplus, we just “empty our stockpile” and don’t breed more.

      • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Except they don’t, because insects and corpses are animals too.

        I get the point you’re trying to make but it falls flat if you peek in on that part of the world once in a while.

        • Preservedone@mastodon.social
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          4 months ago

          @drwho well technically corpses are dead animals… that don’t burp and fart methane… I mean for a short while they do. This is the problem with trees too. If we think let’s plant trees to absorb the carbon - when the tree dies the carbon is released into the environment.

      • Preservedone@mastodon.social
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        4 months ago

        @lemmeout @realitista I am being sarcastic but if certain eco folks it’s not like they are PETA - for the eco crowd it’s that we have just too many cows, too many pigs, they want us to stop raising them so that their populations die out…

        PETA would say don’t eat them, but let them populate all of the land.

        ECO folks want the population of cows to go down 90%. They ain’t pro cow.

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    4 months ago

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    A satellite that measures methane leaks from oil and gas companies is set to start circulating the Earth 15 times a day next month.

    The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund, which in March is expected to launch its satellite known as MethaneSAT, marks a new era of global climate accountability.

    Maguire said the same AI technology that Google used to detect trees, crosswalks, and intersections from satellite imagery would be applied to oil and gas infrastructure.

    “We think this information is incredibly valuable for energy companies, researchers, and the public sector to anticipate and mitigate methane emissions in components that are generally most susceptible,” Maguire said.

    The satellite launch comes as countries and oil and gas companies aim to drastically reduce methane emissions by 2030 to tackle the climate crisis.

    During the UN climate summit in Dubai last year, companies accounting for 40% of global oil and gas production promised to nearly eliminate methane leaks from their own operations this decade.

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