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Decaying urban gas lines are fueling global warming

Decaying urban gas lines are fueling global warming Researchers in Europe have devised a way to find methane leaks hidden in crumbling infrastructure as part of a little-known race to slash greenhouse gases By Paul Tullis / Bloomberg About two hours into a drive around Utrecht, a city of 358,000 near the center of the Netherlands, the display providing a real-time readout of ambient methane levels begins to freak out. The Samsung tablet is consistently showing concentrations close to the atmosphere’s background level of about two parts per million (ppm). Yet suddenly, the chart’s scale expands to follow a sudden spike to 300ppm.

Decaying urban gas lines fuel global warming

Decaying urban gas lines fuel global warming Paul Tullis, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Hossein Maazallahi, part of a seven-nation research project training scientists to find methane leaks, checks readings from a storm drain in Utrecht, the Netherlands.Bloomberg photo by Paul Tullis.Show MoreShow Less 2of5Hossein Maazallahi and an assistant, Ina Nagler, check the methane readings coming from a storm drain in Utrecht.Bloomberg photo by Paul Tullis.Show MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5A valve wheel at a terminal operated by LNG Croatia in Krk, Croatia, on Jan. 25, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Petar Santini.Show MoreShow Less 5of5 About two hours into our drive around Utrecht, a city of 358,000 near the center of the Netherlands, the display providing a real-time readout of ambient methane levels begins to freak out.

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