Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany

[yunohn]

Reads like parody - nothing can explain this other than corruption. Did regulators never once audit their emissions? A factory that produces that exact gas? A similar thing happened in the Netherlands with cocoa factories in Zaandam.

[abbracadabbra]

Interesting to read that there is little to no legal action that can be taken to halt operations at the plant, which means that unfortunately it may take a long time for this to be resolved.

[dzhiurgis]

The most ethical thing to do would be Musk to tweet “it’s ours” and see it shut in 60 minutes.

[montjoy]

I understand it’s “damaging”, but how stable is it? CO2 is bad because it doesn’t just go away. Methane, while being more “damaging”, eventually breaks down into CO2 and water.

[hrimfaxi]

> Over a 100-year period, SF6 is 23,500 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO2). SF6 is also a very stable chemical, with an atmospheric lifetime of greater than 1,000 years.

https://www.epa.gov/eps-partnership/sulfur-hexafluoride-sf6-...

[scotty79]

When F grabs onto something it ususally never lets go.

[moralestapia]

The "damage" part of damage already accounts for that.

[rurban]

Written by Hanno Böck. Our Hanno Böck? https://github.com/hannob Looks like so.

[pixelpoet]

It does say the link is submitted by hannob...