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>fantasy setting has magic and flying creatures
>still using horses as main transportation

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>>250341473 (OP) #
>setting has nuclear energy
>still using coal as main energy source

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think Natural Gas is something like a 20% improvement over coal. So it is an improvement, but yeah it's still 80% bad and it's gotta go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=gLjJB3v4Mdr6XQ-2

Now we have methane observation satellites we know that despite natural gas (methane) companies never having reported themselves for leaked methane, huge leaks have been observed (who'd have thought it was a faulty enforcement plan, asking companies to volunteer for fines)

Unfortunately the gas is odourless and colourless in visible light, so it has historically been hard to find leaks if you don't own a natural gas company

Methane is a many times worse greenhouse gas than CO2. On the up side natural gas isn't radioactive unlike coal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Only if it doesn’t leak. Unfortunately it loves to leak. Like all the time.