Methane images?
THE FIRES BURN THE METHANE OFF! IT IS A GOOD THING!!
Al Gore and his ilk have excrement for brains.
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Not really a question, but you are correct.
Chemistry teaches us that CH4 + 2 O2 ==> CO2 + 2 H2O. So the net result is th same number of molecules, but both of the kind that does the majority of the Global Warming dirt!
So is this a good trade? We get rid of two molecules of the oxygen we need to breathe, to make three molecules of the most effective Greenhouse gases.
I think it is on the minus side for humanity!!
And besides, the Saudis flare off millions of cubic feet of methane and burn it, producing vast amounts of CO2 and H2O, and taking away our O2 to breathe! I don't think one little garbage dump makes a big difference. Live earth was propaganda, not going for the real polluters!!
Now, if you can persuade the Environmentalists to cap the Saudi natural gas flares, and use part to repressurize the old wells, and part liquify and ship it to the US so our poor can have needed heat, I might listen with a lot less scepticism about their short and long range political motives in the US!
Wonder how much digging and how many matches it took to get a good fire going there to film!
Landfill gas is a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, typically in a 50/50 ratio. It will burn. The gas is produced by the decomposition of organic matter in the land fill. While it is true that both methane and carbon dioxide are green house gases, you should also realize the the vast majority of the organic material in land fills is derived from plants (or more precisely materials produced from plants such as paper and vegetable waste). Thus, this is actually just a form of natural decomposition that would have to occur somewhere, and as such is not relevant to or supportive of the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change.
Landfills can and do catch on fire, usually through spontaneous ignition. The decomposition process is exothermic and can at times reach the autoignition temperature of the materials in the land fill. When this occurs, provided there is sufficient oxygen in the mix, the land fill will ignite. Once started the fire is very difficult to put out. I have personally fought these types of fires and I can assure you it is no fun.
Not a good trade off. There are very destructive items in the landfill that gets into the atmoshere with the smoke. Plastics, electronic products, lead, batteries, and we can keep on listing.
These are items that are to be placed in recycle containers.
They are working on ways now of capturing methane gas for fuels. But the landfills burning at this point in time are a bad thing. If everyone would recycle like they are supposed to, we wouldn't have to worry so much about a lanfill burning.
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