The Most Efficient Path to Agricultural Decarbonization

There are approximately 17,500 methane sources in the United States with no capture, no flare, and no plan. Dairy farms, swine operations, and wastewater treatment plants emit an estimated 45 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent every year from uncaptured methane.

Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) serves a purpose at large, pipeline-adjacent sites. But it requires $8-25M+ in capital, pipeline interconnection, and subsidy stacking -- leaving thousands of smaller sources without a viable solution. The minimum viable scale for RNG is 5,000+ head dairy, which excludes the vast majority of operations.

Cap-and-flare achieves the same methane destruction at 5-15x lower capital cost. No pipeline. No upgrading. No subsidy dependency. Zero cost to the waste generator. The value is in the destruction itself -- converting methane (80x the warming potential of CO2) to CO2 via enclosed flare, generating verified carbon credits in the process.