does butane fuck up the planet?

Does butane fuck up the planet when blasted into the air? If so how bad?

I would imagine most hydrocarbons are bad for the ozone

Major gas in butane - methane. Bad. Reclaim rigs are the way to go and using R600 instead of n-butane helps somewhat. If you are talking about running BHO.

Methane is hundreds of times more active as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, to the point where it's more environmentally responsible to burn it into carbon dioxide and water than to release it in pure form.

UPDATE; I recently found out that fracking often creates cracks in the ground that reach the surface, so the very natural gas they're trying to recover escapes into the atmosphere.... and as already mentioned, natural gas is mostly methane.

Butane is a simple Alkane. I keep track of them using, "Mary eats peanut butter", followed by the Greek alphabet. Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane...Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, etc.

Alkanes are cabon chains with hydrogen molecules attached at the ratio of carbon X 2 + 2 hydrogens.

Methane has one carbon and four hydrogens, ethane has two carbons and 6 hydrogens, Propane has three carbons and 8 hydrogens, and Butane has four carbons and 10 hydrogens.

Butane is neither a green house gas, nor a ozone depleting gas, but because it is twice as heavy as air, it hangs around close to the ground contributing to ground smog.

I prefer to recycle butane for that reason, as well as the ecological damage done extracting the butane from the ground in the first place and any pollution added refining it. It is also less prone to accidental ignition in a closed loop system.

Fadedawg said:

Butane is a simple Alkane. I keep track of them using, "Mary eats peanut butter", followed by the Greek alphabet. Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane...Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, etc.

Alkanes are cabon chains with hydrogen molecules attached at the ratio of carbon X 2 + 2 hydrogens.

Methane has one carbon and four hydrogens, ethane has two carbons and 6 hydrogens, Propane has three carbons and 8 hydrogens, and Butane has four carbons and 10 hydrogens.

Butane is neither a green house gas, nor a ozone depleting gas, but because it is twice as heavy as air, it hangs around close to the ground contributing to ground smog.

I prefer to recycle butane for that reason, as well as the ecological damage done extracting the butane from the ground in the first place and any pollution added refining it. It is also less prone to ignition in a closed loop system.

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Wow dude. Impressive!

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Fadedawg said:

Butane is a simple Alkane. I keep track of them using, "Mary eats peanut butter", followed by the Greek alphabet. Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane...Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, etc.

Alkanes are cabon chains with hydrogen molecules attached at the ratio of carbon X 2 + 2 hydrogens.

Methane has one carbon and four hydrogens, ethane has two carbons and 6 hydrogens, Propane has three carbons and 8 hydrogens, and Butane has four carbons and 10 hydrogens.

Butane is neither a green house gas, nor a ozone depleting gas, but because it is twice as heavy as air, it hangs around close to the ground contributing to ground smog.

I prefer to recycle butane for that reason, as well as the ecological damage done extracting the butane from the ground in the first place and any pollution added refining it. It is also less prone to accidental ignition in a closed loop system.

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Thank you for the response