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Nord Stream leak twice as bad as previously thought — new study - Gas Outlook (gasoutlook.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Happy Marie Antoinette day!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, these pipelines are destroying the planet. They should all be destroyed but preferably in a safe way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is nord stream still leaking? I forgot about this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

As far as I know valves were shut quickly. The big leak was a result of remaining gas (under pressure?) between the valves that could escape. It was a lot, as the pipes run for 100s of km under the sea, so even with valves shut there was just a lot gas in the pipe.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What a shit article. Seriously. It's just babble about methane and weird comparisons and not about why it would be "twice as bad" (not big) or I just gave up after 8 pages of crap.

Why do people upvote this kind of crap?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a shit comment. Seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So what's the "twice" in the article eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's written in the first two paragraphs of the article:

The 2022 explosion and leak of the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea resulted in the release of 485,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, according to a new study of the disaster.

The methane released from the pipeline was the largest human-caused methane emissions event in history. But the magnitude of the release is twice as bad as previously thought, according to a new study conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme and published in Nature. Prior studies estimated the methane released from the disaster at between 75,000 and 230,000 tonnes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're just thinking twice as bad means twice as much, that's just sloppy writing.

Edit that should be "at least twice as much" too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you. I will immediately write this down in my little black book of things that I don't give a shit about.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Like u can read and write