Flare-gas mining is a specific Mining coordinate in the Bitcoin knowledge graph. In practical terms, it identifies the subject described here: Using otherwise flared natural gas to generate on-site electricity for mining; emissions depend on equipment and the counterfactual flare. This definition is narrower than promotional usage and should be read together with the implementation, date and evidence attached to the entry.
Flare-gas mining is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Flare-gas mining sits between protocol rules, economic incentives and software operated by independent participants. In Bitcoin, no component is authoritative by itself: miners propose history, fully validating nodes enforce validity, and users decide which rules and software they accept.
Understanding Flare-gas mining helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: flare-gas mining uses gas that would otherwise be flared or vented to fuel generators serving mining equipment; evaluation compares measured baseline emissions, methane destruction efficiency, generator output and operating uptime. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.
The practical limit is: using waste gas is not automatically zero-carbon or climate-positive; leakage, incomplete combustion, additional production, local pollutants, equipment transport and counterfactual gas use determine net impact. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Stranded Energy Mining, Methane mitigation, Behind-the-meter mining, Energy arbitrage, Bitcoin. The reverse links also lead from Stranded Energy Mining, Landfill-gas mining, Methane mitigation, Behind-the-meter mining.