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.

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bob1029 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The alternative is significantly worse.

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otterley 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Which alternative are you thinking of?

	▲	bob1029 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Allowing methane to escape unburned

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sidewndr46 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	otterley 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks, Captain Obvious. ;) the underlying question was why (although I used the word how and that’s on me).