Iraq has publicized its resolve to reuse flare gas, a well-known by-product of the oil extraction process. At the U.S.-Iraq Higher Coordinating Committee meeting, where Iraq’s deputy prime minister Muabamad Ali Tamim sat together with the USA’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Iraq administration pledged to adopt new technologies to enable energy independence and sustainability.
Iraq’s venture into sustainable practices
The air flares are usually released during the refining of oil and are major contributors to pollution, especially in the regions loaded with oil in Iraq. The nation has been recently identified as the greatest gas flare producer in the global community.
However, initiatives to curb the issue have begun to be implemented to address this menace. The provision plan will include the capturing of the gas to decrease the emissions and also make alternatives in energy research.
The talk of more technologically advanced flare gas capture has resulted in the community of cryptocurrency to speculate about the bright new prospects that Iraq presents to Bitcoin mining.
The genesis of this beliefs comes out from the fact that organizations impose on those clean or wasted energy resources to feed their widest cryptocurrency mines.
One such instance is the Giga company that is based in Texas and utilizes the flare gas to fuel their gas-powered mobile Bitcoin mining.
The government of Iraq has not officially admitted to the intention to mine directly holding flare gas but, in case the flare gas energy passes some necessary filters, it might bring the country up to date with global initiatives to sustainability in the cryptocurrency industry.
These projects could come with benefit of driving cleaner environment and the economy, by the possible reuse of currently wasted methane.
Iraq’s innovative path to sustainability
For instance, country is mentioning the possibility of marketing emissions through the global carbon credit system as another creative solution. Through this gas capture,it would reduce its carbon emissions to the atmosphere and on the other hand it would create a market opportunity for the country, offering flare gas as an energy source on the global carbon credit market.
This strategy envisions a framework that will use blockchain technology to provide verifiable proof of CO2 reduction as a response to the growing investor demand for environmental impact disclosures worldwide.
As it endeavors to divert its economy from the carbon-intensive hydrocarbon industry and boost its brand as an environmentally conscious country in the international arena, Iraq can leverage its capacity to produce and market carbon credits as a source of transitional revenue.
This mode of thinking demonstrates the path that other resource-rich states are taking, whose aspirations are focused more on the sustainability of their natural resources as well as the economic viability of alternatives to traditional energy practices.
Iraq’s strategic leap
Across the nation, Iraq seeks to implement technologies that not only stop flare gases from being a pollution cause but also to discover new power solutions. There lies the opportunity to enter the cryptocurrency mining and carbon credits market that may possibly lead to the mutation of the country’s energy policy and improved environmental performance.
Overcoming all barriers, these uses of renewable energy are spectacular steps in the direction of global sustainability, cooperation across the world and economic diversification in Iraq.
