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The Center of the American Experiment is a Minnesota -based think tank that advocates for conservative and free-market principles. The Center of the American Ex
by BMc2020 4y ago
The Center of the American Experiment is a Minnesota -based think tank that advocates for conservative and free-market principles. The Center of the American Experiment was founded in 1990 by Mitch Pearlstein, a former Reagan appointee.
- ETH_start 4y agoThe data speaks for itself.
- tuatoru 4y agoOK, they're using IMPLAN. Stop right there. There's a heap of static world fallacy, failure to acknowledge price trends, built in there. On the callout: "Maintaining grid reliability would be much less costly if natural gas were used instead of battery storage, but these plants would need to shut down by 2040 under the Walz proposal". I haven't run the numbers on this. But methane does not have to come from the ground. By 2040, on current trends, synthesizing methane using air-captured carbon and electrolyzed hydrogen using wind power will be competitive with today's fossil methane cost.
- ETH_start 4y ago>>By 2040, on current trends, synthesizing methane using air-captured carbon and electrolyzed hydrogen using wind power will be competitive with today's fossil methane cost. If this happened, it would revolutionize the energy market.