Google’s Street View cars now sniffing our methane leaks in major U.S. cities
New Scientist reports that Google is now using Street View cars to detect methane leaks from corroded pipes, landfill sites and other sources.
Sensors strapped to the top of the cars have mapped hundreds of methane leaks around Boston, New York’s Staten Island and Indianapolis […]
Methane leaks are a triple threat: they can cause explosions, accelerate the growth of global warming and waste money. A study last year found that US methane emissions are 1.5 to 1.7 times higher than current estimates, a discrepancy that has been attributed to hard-to-detect leaks …
