We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.
I just hope the machines sedate me and place me back at the peak of our civilization, 1999.
For your edification Climate Town’s video on Methane (Natural Gas) (on YouTube).
TLDW: Methane was sold to the US as a transition fuel for government subsidies while we invested in renewables. It turns out we weren’t intending to transition after all.
Natural gas infrastructure is notoriously leaky, though difficult to monitor. (And the NG industry has gone to great lengths to discourage actual oversight, of course.) And methane is an exceptionally nasty greenhouse gas, considerably worse than CO2.
It also includes a bit about LNG, in which methane is liquified so it can be shipped abroad and other nations can transition to more methane use.
Natural gas. In the EU that is classified as sustainable, green energy. Or maybe that’s only if it’s sourced from Russia. Common regulatory W.
How incredibly American is that?
“In the US”
Damn I thought our trope was illiteracy.
Bezos is a prick.
Maybe by size, but its natural gas, how is that not better than any of the coal plants in the US. The coal plants seem to top out around 3.5gwh
Edit: and if could be wrong, but im pretty sure people would rather live near a 7.5gwh natural gas plant, than a 3.5gwh coal one? Not that they’d want to live near either though.
I think you’re confusing your units for power vs energy. 3.5GWh (Gigawatt-hours) says nothing about the size of a power plant without also providing a time period that energy was generated in. You likely mean 3.5GW (Gigawatts), which is a measure of instantaneous power (in this case peak power). A 3.5GW plant generates 3.5GWh in 1 hour.
You’re correct.
Greenland is going to live up to its name pretty soon at this rate (any part still above water, that is).
Gotta be the best at something right.
