Photo: Flickr , CC “Today we flare enough natural gas to power Germany” Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimated in 2005 that about 0.5% of all CO2 emissions from fossil fuels came from natural gas flaring. The most shocking thing about this is that all this energy (and we’re talking about a lot of BTUs… the quote

above is by Jeff McDaniel, business development director for Velocys.) isn’t actually used for anything useful (unless you count the light, but burning lots of natural gas is a ridiculous way to pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turning Wasteful Gas Flares Into Useful Liquid Fuel