Thread: HUGE methane cloud over New Mexico
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Old 01-10-2015, 10:39 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Image of methane cloud: http://s3.amazonaws.com/policymic-im...s8cg2tzjld.jpg

Map of San Juan Basin: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nBasinUSGS.jpg

Link to map of San Juan Basin oil & gas wells: http://www.google.com/url?url=http:/...o_IXozlQr3sj6Q (large PDF file, takes a long time to load)

Looks to me like the oil & gas is spot on. Can't find a good map of the coal mines, but they are in the same area.
That might work if there was no wind and the methane was allowed to go straight up.
Problem is that part of the country is very windy. Usually west to east, or south to north.
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