[ExI] US to become 'net energy exporter' (fwd)

[Tomasz Rola]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Kelly Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:
> 
> First, being Al Jazeera, your mileage may vary... Of course, they SHOULD 
> be the best place to get news about oil...

Actually, from what I have understood, AJ until 2011 have been owned by 
monarch of Qatar, a quite close US ally. So indeed, mileage etc. Myself, I 
am not shy to learn other people's views. Otherwise, how am I supposed to 
understand this mad world? In this case, however, I'd say they are kind of 
Arabian CNN. Or maybe Fox. Not decided yet. Maybe it's all the same.

> more vigorous contributor to global warming (10x to 20x), it also breaks
> down in the atmosphere over time, while CO2 does not. So it is a shorter
> term issue than CO2, and the overall contribution is less impactful.

But, whatever breaks does not disappear. In case of methane, from what I 
have read, either it breaks into CO2 and H2O (a steam is said to be even 
more potent g-gas, but at the same time I somehow cannot find too much 
about it, for whatever reason) - or it reacts with some other compounds, 
producing things like chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and few others 
(most or maybe all of them, AFAIK, not neutral to health). So one way or 
another, it is not very cool to emit this.

But chemistry is very far from my home base so I may be wrong. Or idiot.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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