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Environment & Energy

TheRealNorth

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12. Which is a concern

Reply to Colbert (Reply #11)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 04:59 PM

Jun 2022

Conversion to CO2 would be bad enough, but conversion to Methane would be very bad in terms of greenhouse games.

While conversion of some of the carbon to organic molecules and the rest to CO2 wouldn't be too bad, if it produced a lot of methane, it may be worse than just burning the stuff.

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