Stop methane leaks world! Bitcoin miners convert methane gas from oilfields into less harmful things. Methane is the 2nd most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide (CO2), accounting for ~20% of global emissions. Methane > 25 X as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
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Bitcoin isn’t only a vital instrument to renewable energy projects it is perfectly suited to convert methane into things 20 X less harmful.
China, the United States, Russia, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Mexico are estimated to be responsible for nearly half of all anthropogenic methane emissions. The major methane emission sources for these countries vary greatly. For example, a key source of methane emissions in China is coal production, whereas Russia emits most of its methane from natural gas and oil systems. The largest sources of [methane emissions from human activities in the United States](https://ift.tt/G4gnUXd6h) are oil and gas systems, livestock enteric fermentation, and landfills.
There’s room to expand mining in Oil and Gas, Landfills and other places where methane is leaking.
Reminder: leaking methane is 20 TIMES worse than carbon dioxide at causing global warming. So theoretically Bitcoin miners can decrease global warming by almost 20 times if they burn “flare gas” and other methane sources that aren’t easily mitigated. [https://www.epa.gov/natural-gas-star-program/primary-sources-methane-emissions](https://www.epa.gov/natural-gas-star-program/primary-sources-methane-emissions)
Bitcoin miners have been thinking along these lines([Foundry.com](https://Foundry.com) etc) and are already lined up in the oilfields and mining on methane. Thankfully for our planet.
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