I keep getting ads saying things like “landfills produce more methane pollutants than 56000 cars” or “tell Congress to fix this one methane leak.” I also hear people bring up farming cows as a counter-arguement for any climate action (but not as a “let’s fix this” type arguement sadly). So my thinking is why aren’t people trying to harvest methane and use it for something? Is it inefficient? Are they stupid?

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    6 hours ago

    isn’t it more like methane creates CO2 if burned (CH4+2O2->CO2+2H2O)? methane released from cows for example wouldn’t be burnt, how would that change to CO2? (i don’t know much about this, please correct me if i’m wrong)