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posted by mrpg on Saturday September 01 2018, @02:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the blame-dinosaurs dept.

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Until renewable sources of energy like wind or solar become more reliable and less expensive, people worldwide remain reliant on fossil fuels for transportation and energy. This means that if people want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there need to be better ways of mitigating the effects of extracting and burning oil and gas.

Now, Adam Brandt, assistant professor of energy resources engineering in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences at Stanford, and his colleagues have performed a first global analysis comparing emissions associated with oil production techniques -- a step toward developing policies that could reduce those emissions. They published their work Aug. 30 in Science.

The group found that the burning of unwanted gas associated with oil production -- called flaring -- remains the most carbon-intensive part of producing oil. Brandt spoke with Stanford Report about the group's findings and strategies for reducing flaring.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 01 2018, @07:30AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 01 2018, @07:30AM (#729141) Journal

    the idea is to run the special IC engine to turn a generator and dump the electricity into the local power grid.

    It's a lot easier to string wires than to either:
            + run a pipeline to every well (capturing the gas for processing & sale)
            + set up a compressor station and truck the gas to a processing plant

    EPA problems; you'd find it impossible to get EPA approval to run an engine on that garbage fuel WRT noxious emissions;

    You say that EPA is OK to flare that gas, but is not OK to combust that gas to generate energy in the same place they flare it?

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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday September 01 2018, @08:37AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday September 01 2018, @08:37AM (#729157) Journal

    I can see how that could happen:
    Historically, flaring the gas is part of oil production, not regulated as generator emissions. As soon as you start generating power you come under different rules.

    "Rules is Rules". Sometimes the law is an ass.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday September 02 2018, @03:13PM

    by VLM (445) on Sunday September 02 2018, @03:13PM (#729542)

    Good luck enforcing "we get to burn high sulfur fuel in this engine because the fuel woudda been wasted but not in this engine over dere"

    Also you run into interesting flame temp issues... the unburned heavier crap is going to make life for the cat conv very difficult while at the same time if you lean it out you can produce plenty of nitrogen oxides creating more acidic exhaust than just torching it.

    Given a crap enough fuel, I can see the exhaust being filthier than just lighting it up due to the nitrogen oxides production alone.