ThisThe Aliso Canyon natural gas well blowout released more than 100,000 tons of the powerful greenhouse gas methane before the well was finally plugged Feb. 11, according to the first study of the event, to be published Feb. ...
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onto Sustainability Science February 27, 2016 8:10 AM
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is single storage well failure erased all the work we have done fro the past year in terms of CO2 emission reduction in the state of California. Crazy. A clear sign that we need to get our energy infrastructure together and another example of why natural gas isn't as clean and the proponents often articulate (hint: leaks are the norm with natural gas infrastructure, not the exception).
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This was a perfect application for UAV sensing. The fact we had to do this with an airplane is crazy. While our airplane-based sensing tools are great and have lots of applicability, this is a perfect case for where short-haul, well-equipped UAV could have solved the need much more cost effectively and safely.
See these related stories:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/466317585/scientists-in-los-angeles-measure-environmental-effects-of-gas-leak
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/meet-scientist-flying-methane-leak/
http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/14/world/gas-leak-0
http://abc7.com/news/porter-ranch-gas-leak-prompts-faa-flight-restriction/1119076/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/13/466655916/watch-massive-gas-leak-at-porter-ranch-slows-to-a-stop
and some context here:
http://www.npr.org/tags/459824651/southern-california-gas-company
http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/02/24/46666/beyond-aliso-canyon-la-s-other-gas-wells/