Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see
Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see::Google will use satellite data, AI, and its computing power to map methane emissions around the globe. The transparency marks a new era in climate accountability.
ambiguous wording
at least 90% of the time, don't be evil
or
at least 10% of the time, don't be evil
I mean, it might seem that way but evidence suggests otherwise: undp.org/…/worlds-largest-survey-public-opinion-c…
This is more likely evidence of the lack of awareness people have of data like this, rather than a disinterest in the topic. Just because it’s readily available, doesn’t mean people know about it. Also, don’t confuse a lack of interest in viewing data on air quality as a lack of interest in air quality itself. Those are not the same thing.
UNDP's "Peoples' Climate Vote" reflects over half the world's population after results processed by the University of Oxford. Sixty-four percent of people believe climate change is a global emergency, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Consumer grade Air Quality Index devices give off crazy readings from things you wouldn’t think they would. If a normal reading indoors is about 100, someone walking by with perfume on can spike it to 450 for a few seconds. Someone using a cleaning product to wipe down a table can spike it to 250. Someone cooking meal can spike it to 400.
None of those are things we’re looking to change, but would show up in your readings you’re proposing.
Idk, I’m anti google, degoogled phone, no google connection like accounts or using they’re search engine but this is a net positive.
They’ve not earned my respect but large platforms doing this stuff could open peoples eyes to world issues.
The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund
I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this. They’re not doing it out of kindness.
It seems like media spin more than PR BS. The EDF should be the company being recognised as they appear to be accountable for the program and the article quotes the EDF directly.
I expect google probably is better click bait.
Not as bullshit as you give it credit for. This is tech Google already needs to deploy for its generic roll in data collection / land surveying. Now they get to show off a degree of granularity, flex for the public so they can improve their image, AND provide a lucrative service to the cash-rich O&G industry looking for a cheap way to rack in tax credits.
It is more just convenient.
Carbon credits are fake.
Carbon credits should instead be a tax - one that every major corporation has to pay based off their carbon emissions, and the funds should be used exclusively to fund renewable energy sources, renewable goods manufacturing, and to repair the damage done by traditional fuels.
Scientists develop game-changing ‘glass brick’ that could revolutionize construction: ‘The highest insulating performance’::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.
Google of course, being one of the biggest polluters on Earth, knows that Real Recognizes Real.
Creating and parsing this data set would also create a shitload more carbon emissions and necessitate building more datacenters, wouldn’t it?
The supposition currently is Russia is a huge emitter, especially Siberia as the permafrost melts.
It will be very useful to track this over time.
I work in O&G and my own firm just spent the last three years hunting for and patching pipe leaks by looking for methane emissions.
This is something they’ve been crowing about for a while, but its been a problem for decades that only got treated as something worth fixing when the cost of aerial reconnaissance dropped. Its a classic negative externality that energy companies simply don’t want to acknowledge until the price is right.
If you think this is the only case in which lax regulation has left the lid off Pandora’s box, don’t ask what was up with the BP oil rig explosion or look to hard into the number of gas leaks polluting the Mississippi river or… really… ask any questions at all about the state of safety and soundness of O&G infrastructure.
Yep…makes Synthetic fuels an even more no-brainer for me personally. Granted, it doesn’t for those companies and lobbyists because it’s going to be a lot more expensive initially, but if there’s really a will to do something against climate change, the first thing to do should be taxing those companies doing this shit willfully and knowingly to hell and back. A few wind turbines with some electrolysis machines suddenly become a lot cheaper.
And it’s a Win-Win for everyone - lots of people keep their jobs, execs keep getting money and I can keep driving ICE - and no extra co2, methan or other gasses are being released. And with these Satellites, there’s actually a way to keep companies from being shit.
But that may very well be a bit too utopian…
Google detecting farts from space.
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