• Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Normalise saying “fossil methane” instead of “natural gas”

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        On one hand, synthetic methane is set to be rather important in the medium term future. On the other hand, bio methane is probably the worse greenhouse product at the moment.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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          4 months ago

          I mean, if it’s methane but using another process to create it, it’s still methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, that’s so far hard to regulate and very easily leak unnoticed. It’s “better” than obtaining from oil, but still, it’s methane.

          [insert methane is methane meme here]

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            4 months ago

            Specifically synthetic methane will be efficiently burned, and much of it will be burned outside the atmosphere, so it’s hardly a greenhouse risk.

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      4 months ago

      I’ve been calling all fossil fuels ‘artisanal energy’. It will eventually become as practical as other handmade, small batch products.