Josh Silverman
methane-man.bsky.social
Josh Silverman
@methane-man.bsky.social
Scientist/entrepreneur building new technologies to capture #methane and reverse #climatechange in our lifetimes!
Learn more about the opportunity for capturing methane:
https://www.windfall.bio/whitepapers/whats-the-deal-with-methane
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It looks like one of the oil industry's organizations has decided to finally take methane emissions seriously. They've started a library with 150 resources!!

That should do it.
February 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Drop everything and read this brilliant @charlescmann.bsky.social essay on how modern agriculture feeds the world. Fertilizer, irrigation, and genetics! www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
www.thenewatlantis.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The next 24 hours are going to be interesting here in SoCal:
February 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Price of #eggs got you down? Hope my new babies can brighten your day!
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I can't stop thinking about Marc Andreessen saying in his "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" that the invention of air-conditioning has "solved the problem of heat." 🫠
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I bet you never thought you’d be excited to hear about barrels of pink bacterial sludge? These #mems pull #methane out of the air and can start immediately cooling the #climate!

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
Windfall Bio Achieves Commercial-Scale Production of Methane-Eating Microbes
Windfall Bio achieves commercial-scale production of its methane removal solution...
www.globenewswire.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I knew that Haber-Bosch uses 1% of the world’s energy to produces fixed nitrogen needed for food production, without which 2-3 billion people would starve to death. But I didn’t know the whole story. Thanks to @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social for the book recommendation.
The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager: 9780307351791 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own. At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This is your regular reminder that highly paid, grown-ass adults are sitting around figuring out how to leverage their companies' bazillions of dollars to get you to eat more crap food.

Yeah why are we fat again?

Gift link.

www.wsj.com/articles/why...
Why Food Companies Want Consumers to Buy More of Everything
After years of raising prices, food companies making everything from cookies to snacks and frozen meals say they need to sell more products to post a profit.
www.wsj.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Early January in Northern CA and the bees are already bringing in loads of pollen! Climate change is mostly depressing, so I try to enjoy what I can. 🐝
January 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This is exactly the attitude that I’m trying to push back against. We eat over 1 trillion eggs a year! It will not be simple to stop! Nobody likes the tradeoffs I write about but there just aren’t easy solutions to food and climate problems.
Simplest thing to do is to just stop eating eggs
January 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Yes, let's make climate change and bird flu not live up to the hype as well.
Right. The years and billions of dollars spent preparing are why Y2K didn’t “live up to the hype.” They *fixed* it. Before it happened. Which is good. Yes.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Dec 28
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
December 28, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility.

You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure?

A long article and accompanying 🧵
Gorgon carbon capture and storage project: The failure of the world’s largest CCS facility
After decades of abject failure, these days even the most enthusiastic proponent of carbon capture and storage can at best mount a muted…
medium.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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“Despite being responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions, 90% of deforestation and 60% of biodiversity loss, Food systems received just 3.4% of the total $115.9bn climate finance mobilised by developed countries in 2022.”
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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There are other solutions to the methane problem in livestock agriculture, which I have written about here: www.linkedin.com/posts/waynev...
Prof. Wayne Visser on LinkedIn: #methane #microbe #climate #globalwarming #carbondioxide #waste #landfills…
#Methane. A MEM is not a meme (although maybe it should be). MEM stands for methane eating #microbe, and it’s a miracle worker in helping to tackle #climate…
www.linkedin.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Shocking update: relying on super emitters to feel shame doesn’t work! While detecting #methane leaks is important, we also have to work on technologies to actually deal with the methane.

www.newscientist.com/article/2456....
Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them
Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them about large methane leaks coming from oil and gas infrastructure
www.newscientist.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Methane emissions are some of the biggest impacts on climate, but the good news are also our lowest hanging fruit to actually reduce temps now, compared to co2 whose effects occur over centuries.

www.latintimes.com/texas-oil-fi...
Texas Oil Field Ranked 'No. 1 Worst Polluting Site in the Entire World' in New UN Report
An oil field in Texas has been named the most pollutive site in the world at the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
www.latintimes.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Since it seems like a good group of climate scientists are here, I was hoping to start a discussion on accounting for short lived climate gasses. #GWP100 is a terrible metric in many ways, yet has become the standard for calculating CO2e, especially #methane

www.bu.edu/igs/files/20...
www.bu.edu
November 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM