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by lesuorac 850 days ago
> It finds oilfield equipment and infrastructure and guesses how much it might leak and how that leak might diffuse.

MethaneSAT has sensors for methane [1]. So the guess work is in detecting an oilfield, the actual methane levels are no more guess work than a thermometer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MethaneSAT