• Yer Ma
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    5 months ago

    I think it’s super weird that we are suddenly even attempting to call LNG environmentally friendly, it has always been a mess

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      5 months ago

      The one positive point is that methane-burning power plants can be spun up in under an hour whereas coal plants usually need a week to power up. If the vast majority of power comes from solar/wind/batteries and gas is only used as (secondary) backup, this may make sense.

      Fossil marketing pretty successfully tries to eradicate the caveats and nuances from the discussion of course.

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        5 months ago

        Woah there, we say ‘differently formed babies’ now buddy

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      5 months ago

      I don’t think anyone was actually buying that right?

      The only people pushing for LNG were the oil companies selling it. Which, I mean, come on, we know better than to believe a word that comes from them.