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[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Remember there is nothing "natural" about natural gas. It's definitely not "greener" in any way.

The term natural gas should ideally be replaced with "fossil gas", and a man in B.C. is fighting to change this in official documents. Article below.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-natural-gas-fossil-1.7001520

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, and has major climate implications. It's a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, with greater ability to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You kind of gloss over the issue there, and maybe its in the link or not, but it should be in your post.

Methane being a worse green house gas isnt an issue around the peaker plant. The output of the peaker plant is still CO2.

The problem with Methane is all the leaks that happen at the wells, and then the actual Methane gets into the atmosphere instead of the combustion byproduct CO2. And there are a lot of leaks.

It does burn cleaner though in terms of what else is put into the environment than other combusted sources, like coal.

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