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why don't they have a little methane-detector-activated igniter? Burn it up before it gets away.


It's a blowout. That means what it sounds like. An explosion and a fire. To fix it, you have to put out the fire. Once you put out the fire, you're still releasing methane.

Methane is flared instead of released under normal conditions if it's not being captured. A blowout is very much not normal conditions.




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