naturalgasbad

Dude there's videos online but they're obscenely graphic.

sigh

You want to talk about methane emissions? Let's talk about underreported methane emissions.

As you we'll know, natural gas has been the most significant contributor to the US' emissions reductions in recent years. Natural gas use has skyrocketed, supplanting coal because of its "50% reduction in CO2 emissions." This is true at the consumption point, but what's often forgotten is that methane, CH4, is small and leaky, and methane is a much worse GHG than CO2 (~80x worse over 20 years).

What does that mean? A 1.25% leakage rate for methane over the entire extraction/distribution process would double methane's GHG effect. What's a realistic leakage rate, then? Well...

Stanford estimates 9% leakage over the Permian Basin

The EDF estimates methane leakage to be 3.75x to 8x worse than the EPA estimate of 1.2%

Remember that natural gas makes up the most significant part of the US electricity supply (as well as a significant portion of primary energy for heating and industrial applications). Draw conclusions appropriately.

The US is significantly underreporting it's own methane emissions.

Edit: in case it wasn't clear, natural gas is methane

Lmao a big problem is that a lot of these influencers aren't actually wealthy. They can't actually afford their lifestyles, and the Chinese government has been trying to control "fake Internet personas" for a while.

China views social media as an extension of in-person relationships rather than it's own independent entity.

Economic coercion, like:

the embargo on Cuba?

legislation to raise EV tariffs by 100% and block semiconductor exports?

sanctions on India?

sanctions on Pakistan?

tell me more about this "economic coercion", because it seems like we're talking to an expert in the matter.

First human trial for a treatment strategy passed (notably, we know that placebo treatments for diabetes fail). This more than passes the bar to justify further large-scale human trials and, clinically, is a very strong indicator of success.

What, is it not a cure until it's available to the public?

Ooo "mysterious"

Who the fuck cares? Every major space power does weird shit in space.

Tax dollars at work everyone

Is this supposed to be a response to the propaganda leaflets that got dropped on North Korea?

I wasn't aware that had happened recently, but I know it was a thing in the past.

shh The Guardian had a slow news day ok

No, there's many many Hui Arabic-style mosques.

Maybe The Guardian doesn't know about them and doesn't consider them "major", but that sounds like The Guardian's problem.

It's motherfucking happening

Ahead of schedule

With accelerating velocity

It's fucking happening AHHHH

The old Chinese style building was there until the end of the Qing Dynasty or whatever

China's property glut is being eaten up by the rural-urban migration. It's not a static demand market.

There's domes everywhere, not really sure what The Guardian is talking about

Oil exploitation wen

You mean...

Tesla? No, sorry, must have been Ford/GM.

Oh, my bad, Intel.

TSMC?

No? Oh. So it's only other governments subsidizing domestic businesses that's bad.

Montreal?

I think the OP has a point here: most of North America is distinctly not urban, distinctly not pedestrianized, and really spread apart. EVs take a substantial range hit in the cold, which might not be a problem in the Montreal area but is a bit more of an issue when living in bumfuck, Wisconsin.

Shoigu is being replaced by Belousov, an economist. Shoigu was planning to retire before the invasion of Ukraine anyway, but this reflects either a dire need for an economics expert or a lack of need for someone with conflict experience.

Given Russia's recent successes in the Kharkov region, it's looking like Putin has already assumed that victory is inevitable and is planning for how to manage the post-war economy given the rapid expansion of Russia's military-industrial complex over the course of the Ukraine conflict.

That, or Putin is unhappy with Shoigu's progress... But again, looking at recent successes in the Kharkov region I highly doubt that.

Supercritical coal reactors are absolutely used to reduce CO2 emissions per unit coal, what do you mean?

Higher efficiency -> less losses from heat/etc -> fewer emissions