There’s a line in a Bruce Springsteen song that goes like this: “Foreman says these jobs are going, and they ain’t comin’ back.” Something similar is happening to demand for methane in Europe. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Continent depended heavily on supplies of cheap methane from Russia. ... [continued]
I mean where do you draw the line between this sort of recycling and just a conservation of matter / energy argument in which just about everything is “recycled” instead of produced?
In terms of atmospheric carbon, it’s either newly brought up from underground petroleum, or it’s recycled from what’s already up here. If you care for volcanoes, you can add them as a third source.
I mean where do you draw the line between this sort of recycling and just a conservation of matter / energy argument in which just about everything is “recycled” instead of produced?
In terms of atmospheric carbon, it’s either newly brought up from underground petroleum, or it’s recycled from what’s already up here. If you care for volcanoes, you can add them as a third source.