Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany

(industrydecarbonization.com)

45 points | by hannob 2 days ago ago

9 comments

  • abbracadabbra a day ago

    Interesting to read that there is little to no legal action that can be taken to halt operations at the plant, which means that unfortunately it may take a long time for this to be resolved.

    • dzhiurgis a day ago

      The most ethical thing to do would be Musk to tweet “it’s ours” and see it shut in 60 minutes.

  • yunohn a day ago

    Reads like parody - nothing can explain this other than corruption. Did regulators never once audit their emissions? A factory that produces that exact gas? A similar thing happened in the Netherlands with cocoa factories in Zaandam.

  • montjoy a day ago

    I understand it’s “damaging”, but how stable is it? CO2 is bad because it doesn’t just go away. Methane, while being more “damaging”, eventually breaks down into CO2 and water.

    • hrimfaxi a day ago

      > Over a 100-year period, SF6 is 23,500 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO2). SF6 is also a very stable chemical, with an atmospheric lifetime of greater than 1,000 years.

      https://www.epa.gov/eps-partnership/sulfur-hexafluoride-sf6-...

    • scotty79 a day ago

      When F grabs onto something it ususally never lets go.

    • moralestapia a day ago

      The "damage" part of damage already accounts for that.

  • rurban a day ago

    Written by Hanno Böck. Our Hanno Böck? https://github.com/hannob Looks like so.

    • pixelpoet a day ago

      It does say the link is submitted by hannob...