Carbon nanotubes as a pollution side effect sounds quietly horrifying.
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
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While this certainly sounds like an improvement over traditional burning, there’s nothing clean about natural gas. You have to remember how it destroys our environment as it’s pulled out of the earth.
You get the same gas from biowaste. We get emissions from landfills as well that can and should be collected years after landfill has stopped. There are many clean sources for methane - it should be collected and used in order for it to not leak into the atmosphere. If they found another good clean use for it, it's good
Extraction isn't the problem. It's a green house gas that's 80x worse than CO2
Ah well, fracking definitely does. It also increases the methane emissions
Can I breathe the carbon nanotubes if I want?
You will breath the carbon nanotubes even if you don't want to.