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Comment 26 for Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Draft Strategy (slcpdraftstrategy-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Arthur
Last Name: Boone
Email Address: arboone3@gmail.com
Affiliation: local Sierra Club chapter
Subject: Methane from landfills.
Comment:
There's been a fatal flaw in the measurement of methane coming out of landfills. Dr. Sally Brown at the University of Washington has demonstrated that most rotting food materials have made all their methane in the first six weeks after being discarded. The methane is long gone before those materials would be placed in a landfill, covered with daily cover, and have their methane monitored. Low methane emissions as monitored in a flux type system does not present a true picture of what has happened. It's also true that methane collection systems are carefully run to avoid drawing air into the system that would create easily explosive mixtures. The analogy is trying to heat Buckingham Palace with one thermostat; a too simple control system for a complex environment.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2015-10-29 07:59:30
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