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Most of that natural gas should stay under the ground if we want to somewhat mitigate climate change...
by joelthelion 3y ago
Most of that natural gas should stay under the ground if we want to somewhat mitigate climate change...
- blooalien 3y agoNow we just gotta convince our rich overlords that life is more important than more money for the rich. That shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, yeah?
- bonestamp2 3y agoThat's part of it. But electricity is still expensive, so I don't see a lot of people wanting to switch their natural gas heating and cooking to electricity anytime soon. We need a massive investment in nuclear and solar to bring down the cost of electricity.
- BurningFrog 3y agoYou can always pump it back after extracting the helium.
- Retric 3y agoThat requires you to store a frankly insane volume of gas. It might happen, but only at vastly higher helium prices.
- mikrotikker 3y agoGiven that fossil fuels have allowed artificial expansion of the human population that would be sentencing large swathes of people to death.