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Methane is the chemical feedstock for making fertilizer, being the primary source of hydrogen in large-scale industrial chemistry. There are no economical subst
by jandrewrogers 5y ago
Methane is the chemical feedstock for making fertilizer, being the primary source of hydrogen in large-scale industrial chemistry. There are no economical substitutes at scale. You can't replace it with unreliable electricity because it is not being primarily used as an energy source.
If methane becomes expensive, many ordinary things you might not expect will also become expensive. It is not helpful to naively make policy while oblivious to the consequences.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWell, last time I checked, methane wasn't expensive by policy. We simply don't have enough of it. You can have a much smoother transition if you make it expensive by policy before it runs out. But no, short-sighted people will complain all the way until they kill their jobs and throw everybody into a crisis.