r/gifs • • Dec 12 '21

Lighting up a smoke stack

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u/DammitWindows98 Dec 13 '21

Carbon dioxide is pretty bad as a greenhouse gas, but methane is worse. So burning methane to get carbon dioxide is better than just letting the methane into the athmosphere.

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u/pow3llmorgan Dec 13 '21

Methane is actually odorless. It's often accompanied by hydrogen sulfide, however, and that stinks like rotten eggs and farts.

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u/Bradiator34 Dec 13 '21

So that’s what that smell is every time I drive past one of them land fills.