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Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany(industrydecarbonization.com)
36 points by hannob 6 hours ago | 7 comments
  • abbracadabbra2 hours 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.

  • montjoy4 hours 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.

    • hrimfaxi3 hours ago |parent

      > 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-...

    • moralestapiaan hour ago |parent

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

  • rurban4 hours ago

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

    • pixelpoetan hour ago |parent

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

  • yunohn5 hours 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.