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The United States committed Saturday to the idea of phasing out coal power plants
And switching to natural gas. Sigh.
Well, it is better than coal I suppose. Not enough to keep the planet from boiling but... baby steps?
It’s far too late for baby steps
Guess we should take no steps then.
Obviously no one’s saying that, but thanks for your contribution.
Was no more low-effort than your contribution.
As I understand it, natural gas might be better than coal, but it’s surprisingly not that clear cut:
Methane is 34 times stronger than CO2 at trapping heat over a 100-year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years.
It’s only better if we keep leakage under 3%, but currently leakage is well above that in the US. We need strong regulation and oversight for natural gas to be worth it (which thankfully the Biden administration recently announced). But there’s no replacing moving away from fossil fuels.
Koch Brothers must be spinning up their PACs as we read this.
RIP west virginia
I just watched Climate Town's video 'Time to let Coal Die' on YT... The writing is on the wall for coal. There's no "clean" coal, so let's kill that industry and have a plan in place to transition those workers over to solar or wind!
I am of the opinion we could convince china to abandon coal if we helped them get CANDU reactors off the ground.
Their current stock of nuclear reactors are not amazing and because of this a lot of their power production has been coming from coal. I'm not sure they 'wanted' to use coal as much as they were forced to due to technological and economic limitations.
Not to mention the plethora of misinformation surrounding nuclear reactors and nuclear waste, but I'm not certain how much of an impact that would have on decisions within the chinese government.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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