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'There are some places in the world where gas wins out because they burn coal to produce electricity but it's rare.' This statement always throws me - did we j
by Qwertious 6y ago
'There are some places in the world where gas wins out because they burn coal to produce electricity but it's rare.'
This statement always throws me - did we just make a complete context-switch from talking about car emissions to talking about gas turbines? Or is "gas" being used to refer to petrol ("gasoline")? The subject of the previous post was clearly cars, but that sentence is talking about gas and coal, better re-read the entire statement several times to double-check the context!
I don't want to be rude and shit on peoples' language, but FFS I hate the shortening slang-version of "gasoline" so much. THAT WORD IS TAKEN, IT MEANS VAPOUR.
- Spivak 6y agoIt might be a US-ism? I've never heard anyone in casual conversion call it gasoline or petrol. You would get weird looks if you called it gasoline. "You fill up your gas tank at the gas station and get a gas can just in case you get low on gas before you can hit the next station to gas up."
- chrisseaton 6y agoNot hard to see how it's confusing - you call it gas but it's not a gas, it's a liquid.
- Spivak 6y agoBut it’s just a case of a word with two meanings that depends on context. That’s like the least weird thing that happens in English. “You call returned soldiers vets, but they don’t work with animals.”
- afiori 6y agoI always found the acronym LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) funny for similar reasons. The definition of the difference between gas and vapour is that a gas cannot be liquefied by pressure (so water vapour heated over ~374°C becomes a gas)