A plume of the greenhouse gas from the billionaire’s rocket site was detected by an instrument on board the International Space Station.
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. and founder of Blue Origin LLC, smiles while speaking at the unveiling of the Blue Origin New Shepard system during the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Bezos has been reinvesting money he made at Amazon since he started his space exploration company more than a decade ago, and has plans to launch paying tourists into space within two years.
Most of the problem stems from just a few kinds of places: natural gas wells and pipelines, cattle feedlots, coal mines, rice paddies, and landfills. But occasionally, the scientists who hunt for large methane releases find them in surprising spots. Such was the case on June 4, when a plume of the gas was detected at the sprawling ranch in West Texas where billionaire Jeff Bezos tests space rockets.
“We frequently transfer LNG from our suppliers into storage tanks at our engine test stands. Everything operated normally,” said Sara Blask, a spokeswoman for Blue Origin, in an email. “There were no issues or reporting thresholds exceeded.” She declined to comment on how much gas was released. The state air regulator, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, doesn’t impose limits on methane emissions or require disclosure of releases.
The question may get more attention in the coming years. Estimated to be worth $447 billion, the space industry could reach $1 trillion by 2030, according to estimates from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum. “The amount of emissions right now isn’t that great to be a significant contributor to the total of human impact on climate,” Ross said, but “we think there is going to be a lot of growth.
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