> > But most methane that humans burn *is* a fossil fuel.
> >
> > There is nothing "inherently" "fossil" "about" "coal" "or" "oil" "either".
> >
>
> Nonsense. Coal and oil are formed geologically, and short of
> laboratory exercises in studying their formation, none is produced any
> other way. There are quite practical methods for generating methane
> outside of geologic processes.
>
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> Joseph Noonan
> jfn1 at msc.com
Joseph, you are right about biomass methane. Here in the UK municipal waste dumps are used as methane generators; in rural China methane from human sewage is used extensively. But 99.999 % of methane piped to end users is fossil methane. Do you think biomass etc will substitute for this? That is the question, surely.
Mark