However, according to FortisBC’s own projections, RNG will only ever meet a fraction of B.C.'s demand. The remainder of its supply will come from so-called “blue” and “turquoise” hydrogen, which are made from fossil fuels and can be blended with natural gas. Experts agree that we must stop extracting fossil fuels to prevent even more dangerous planetary heating.
Yes.
Not only do we skip the step where the methane acts as a more powerful greenhouse gas for a while, we also get useful work from it when we burn it.
It’s not an either/or. Working on cleaner energy sources doesn’t preclude us from also burning landfill gas. The CO2 will get to the atmosphere eventually anyway, so it’s better to capture and burn the landfill gas to get useful work out of it. However, what’s even better than that would be to refuse/reduce/reuse/recycle to minimize the amount of waste we have sitting around breaking down into methane in the first place.
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Thanks for your explanations. I expect I’m not the only one who didn’t really appreciate reducing methane emissions as a reason to consume less.