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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Normalise saying "fossil methane" instead of "natural gas"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just Methane will do, fossil methane implies there's a better methane out there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

@[email protected] would have to change nickname

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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