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TEK-talk: Detecting methane leaks to fight climate change

It is considered as a quick-fix against climate change: reducing methane emissions. Research institute SRON and its partners developed the space instrument TROPOMI, which can detect super emitters from space. These are facilities in the gas or oil industry that emit excessive amounts of methane. How can Tropomi find these kinds of leaks? And what will be the impact of these findings?

In his TEK-talk at TEKWNOLOGY 2022, researcher Bram Maasakkers from SRON talks about how Tropomi works, orbiting the earth daily on a European satellite. He also shows what we can achieve by discovering the methane leaks. Watch this TEK-talk.

Want to know more about this research? Read this article about the development of Tropomi and the detection of methane leaks.