On: Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

[otterley]

I've often wondered how this is lawful under the EPA. Obviously it must be, but it seems like a gross oversight to allow people to just burn natural gas and allow its byproducts to escape into the atmosphere yet not get any useful work out of it.

[sidewndr46 → otterley]

It's legal because the government allows it. How else would it work?

[otterley → sidewndr46]

Thanks, Captain Obvious. ;) the underlying question was why (although I used the word how and that’s on me).

[bob1029 → otterley]

The alternative is significantly worse.

[otterley → bob1029]

Which alternative are you thinking of?

[bob1029 → otterley]

Allowing methane to escape unburned

[otterley → bob1029]

I would assume that if we were banning the uncontrolled release of its combustion products, we’d also be banning the uncontrolled release of methane into the atmosphere.