Cooking On Gas?

Big oil has a cunning new ploy. They are using the 'waste' methane gas from oil wells to 'mine' for Bitcoins (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/16/crypto-mining-oil-industry-waste-climate-crisis). Bitcoin mining uses enormous amounts of electricity. Burning the methane gas can generate the needed power. Methane is a very potent 'greenhouse gas' but, burning it, simply generates carbon dioxide. This drives global heating and climate change. There's no such thing as a free lunch! We certainly don't want more of this activity.