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Originally Posted by nynor
backpedaling.
i come up with about 210 for 2008, which isn't very close to equaling the top two.
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Yeah, I didn't initially include landfills as "digestive". I'm not sure they really qualify, frankly.
Anyway, do you disagree that industrial sources of methane, to which we can apply methane controls, comprise about 50% of the total in that table? NG, coal, manure, petrol, wastewater, etc. And do you agree that whether landfills are "digestive" or not, we do know how to capture some of the methane from landfills, which is another 22%? If some 70% of methane gas sources in the US is from man-made/operated systems and thus potentially addressable, why are you so fixated on termites?
Suppose all the termites in the world generate 22 Tg/yr globally. That's about 4% of the 570 Tg from man-made sources in the US. Its somewhere down around #8 on the list, similar to wastewater treatment in just the US.
Why are you thinking termites are a "huge amount" of global methane gas?