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Our usage of coal has dropped 50% over the past 20 years. Natural gas has become popular because a natural gas plant is the easiest and cheapest plant in the wo
by taylodl 3y ago
Our usage of coal has dropped 50% over the past 20 years. Natural gas has become popular because a natural gas plant is the easiest and cheapest plant in the world to build, is extremely efficient, does't produce emissions that are regulated so you don't have to care about, and, thanks to hydraulic fracking, is cheap. We joke that it's pennies per cubic mile. The stuff is super cheap.
If one were to regulate hydraulic fracking and/or regulate the emissions produced by these plants then there wouldn't have been the huge build-out of them. Utilities do what they're incentivized to do.
- p1mrx 3y ago> does't produce emissions that are regulated so you don't have to care about Unregulated CO2 emissions are a huge problem for the world, and natural gas is part of that problem, regardless of what the law says.