On: Adobe Installs 1.2 MW of Bloom Boxes—Cheaper Than Grid Power

[btilly]

Methane is a horrible greenhouse gas. CO2 is a bad one. So removing methane and getting CO2 is a good thing.

However if you start actively producing methane for use in something like this, then the greenhouse benefits are negative.

[sbierwagen → btilly]

If you're buying methane in quantity, then you're buying fossil natural gas.

As I like to point out in every HN post on Bloom Energy, these may be fuel cells, but they're still burning fossil fuels.

[spydez → sbierwagen]

Adobe's burning bio-methane from a landfill, not fossil fuels.

[ecuzzillo → sbierwagen]

Sure, but they're not putting any really bad shit in the atmosphere, which is something.