US claims 'unprecedented' success in test for new fuel source

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5. This is boneheaded on so many levels

More drilling in the far north.
Leaking methane into the atmosphere.
But the big one is the fact that every molecule of methane turns into four molecules of CO2 when it's burned. So unless the process uses four times as much CO2 as the methane it recovers, it's a climate change loser to start with.

I'm really concerned that we're starting to treat obscenities like this as though they are no big deal. what does that say about the point we're at in our trajectory?