The only PART of the molecule that is 'of any service' to the 'energy sector' is hydrogen.
The 'carbon' in methane when burned equates to still yet another molecule of CO2.
Molecule for molecule when methane is burned it converts completely into carbon dioxide and a hydrogen EXPLOSION.
It's the hydrogen 'the energy sector' is looking for. It is dangerous, sincerely uncontainable in a real way and not the METHANE JOCKS want to make more billions by producing a 'Duel Fuel' vehicle whereby it would carry regular gasoline along side cylinders of CNG (Compressed Natural Gas).
I DO NOT WANT THESE VEHICLES ANYWHERE NEAR ME ON THE ROAD !
The entire idea that methane is THE BETTER fossil fuel is way out of line and it is about millionaires and billionaires and not the public, their transportation needs or any form of energy.
The issues with Earth's Climate Crisis comes from the consumerism that demands more use of electronic devices, more electricity, more travel, more automobiles and the population of the planet is skyrocketing. Earth has a 'Carrying Capacity' and we have already exceeded it.
With each person born today they will face greater problems with obtaining healthy food, sufficient and not even abundant water supplies and basic human needs, yet alone recreation and leisure. Although Leisure will be in abundance for the poverty the global community will face when production of products becomes so tight by the mechanisms of capitalism there is no way to make a living, there won't be healthy outlets for leisure time. That leads to disasterous environmental damage as we know for a fact poverty does ALWAYS result in degradation of the climate, the soils and any water supply. The best example of that is Ethiopia where drought captured the nation and drove it into famine. So don't just judge my point of view as extremist, it isn't. It is based in understanding FROM HISTORY how the planet works and what sustains it.
Methane is the "W"rong direction for the country and I don't care who says otherwise. It is not extremism that brings that ASSESSMENT, but, practical knowledge that when methane is substituted for other fossil fuels it results in the same hostile climate by-produces that will escalate in the troposphere as populations grow without remitting changes in a benevolent climate.
Suggesting that Methane is the answer to Global Warming is like saying arsenic is the answer for cancer.
...The $223,000 study (click title to entry - thank you) of the effects of “hydrofracking” on the economy and the quality of life was conducted by Ecology and Environment Inc., a global environmental and engineering services company based in Lancaster, N.Y....
The language throughout their website is about pandering and not good policies. It is the Bushitis that has taken productive dialogue away from the Energy Sector and substituted it with 'the language of arbitration.' It's a con. Just that simple. A slight of hand. There is nothing sound about the findings that methane is workable in any form to the climate of Earth. IT ISN'T. It never has been. There is a reason why dead dinosaurs are only good for museum displays.
E&E has outlived its usefulness. It is NOT 'modern day' or 'cutting edge' at all.
