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  @best1onearthКүн бұрын

  Old tires leach petrochemicals, rubber compounds and all kinds of heavy metals (including mercury and lead) into surrounding soil and groundwater. A tire, even partially, submerged in water will kill most aquatic life within weeks. Plants will absorb these pollutants, so eating anything grown next to an old tire is literal poison. Don't even use the plants for composting for the same reason. Just like re-using old yoghurt/butter/milk/... plastic pots will leach BPA and micro-plastics after a year of exposure to water, oxygen and especially sunlight. Re-using/saving money is great. But keep in mind there is more to consider than saving money or waste.

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  @freeandhappy2 күн бұрын

  next season: coffin homes and bugs for dinner

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  @freeandhappy2 күн бұрын

  hint: it has nothing to do with green and everything to do with imprisoning us.

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  @videomofo5 күн бұрын

  Open air prison

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  @randyc7545 күн бұрын

  Good but climate change is a lie! STOP!

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  @samiisufi60158 күн бұрын

  How do you size geothermal system ?

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  @jedics112 күн бұрын

  It looks like a great idea but without details like how long, how much and how much energy over the life time its hard to say, 7 cpkwh sound good though and hopefully we see it scaled.

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  @pipertripp14 күн бұрын

  Love the symbiotic relationship. Keeping the land in the family by having two revenue streams are that largely independent of one another provides more security in an age where farmers are really getting squeezed and their margins are small.

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  @busog9764114 күн бұрын

  I love this channel ❤

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  @stickynorth14 күн бұрын

  Agriculture and PV farming are truly symbiotic enterprises that benefit both the community and the farmer. Same with wind farms. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly a mis/uninformed armchair expert/troll... Hopefully we'll also see more bifacial vertically mounted PV soon because of how much "scrub land" could be put into use with it... I wonder if Edmonton just lined the AHD with panels how much power it could produce... A godly amount I am sure!

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  @davecarnell963114 күн бұрын

  I don't see any real downside to this, but a significant amount of battery storage would really sell this to pretty much anybody in Alberta

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  @davidrandall274214 күн бұрын

  Smart.

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  @lpdirv14 күн бұрын

  Solar by farmers for farmers. Seems like a good fit. Would talking to irrigation farmers make sense. The corners of the pivots are often unused land and the site has power for the pivot so also lines for export. Irrigated land is often in a high sun area.

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  @l0I0I0I014 күн бұрын

  I'm curious!

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  @raytoews987215 күн бұрын

  What keeps the lights on at night?

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  @greenenergyfutures15 күн бұрын

  The grid which is made up of diverse inputs: solar, wind, natural gas, biomass and hydro. Each energy source has its own set of benefits. For solar it’s cheap energy during the day.

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  @SoOthersMayLiveandStuff17 күн бұрын

  I was with you until you revealed your sponsor… Shell Oil. They are confirmed multiple times over shady profiteers. Credibility is gone. Felt like an infomercial. I’m out. Show the oil derricks nearby, why don’t you?

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  @greenenergyfutures15 күн бұрын

  Shell was a sponsor when we started 12 years ago along with Suncor and TD. They all agreed to ZERO editorial influence. Please check out our 382 stories on energy transition - all you will find are factual stories written and produced by our fully editorial independent media service.

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  @ian635817 күн бұрын

  What was cost?

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  @heronimousbrapson86319 күн бұрын

  Sadly, Premier Danielle Smith is trying to kill renewables.

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  @greenenergyfutures15 күн бұрын

  Last year renewables had 2x the investment of other sources of energy worldwide. Thumbing your nose at it in this point in history is turning your back on economic development, jobs and the inevitable foundations of the future economy.

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  @tommywong314720 күн бұрын

  Government save a shitload of money on healthcare when people are excersizing on ebikes

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  @jakhamar5526 күн бұрын

  Such bullshit. Using prime agriculture land. Province should have shut it down on the very 1st day. Hoping for a giant hailstorm.

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  @greenenergyfutures15 күн бұрын

  It’s not prime agricultural land. According to the Alberta Utility in a 2024 report even under an aggressive buildout renewable energy will occupy less than 1% of agricultural land almost none of which will be “prime” agricultural lands. It many case historic uses continue after construction such as the 132 MW Claresholm Solar project where sheep were grazed and are still being grazed.

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  @kellssheehan857829 күн бұрын

  I live off grid so I know the limitations of solar energy in Alberta, wind isn’t even worth consideration because of erratic production and mechanical failure rates.

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  @kellssheehan857829 күн бұрын

  Wind and solar are almost completely unsustainable because of storage (batteries) Germany is potentially industrially defunct because of shifting to “green” energy including shutting down their nuclear plants, and then shooting themselves in the foot by sanctioning cheap Russian natural gas.

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  @rps168924 күн бұрын

  Keep in mind wind and solar are only meant to be stopgaps. Wind and solar will never carry the whole base load. Utility scale solar farms are the cheapest energy right now, but in order for them to surpass more than a third of the energy mix, a huge investment in storage is required. It will require a lot of concrete and square miles; worn out turbines and solar panels will not be the weakest link, but concrete probably will.

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  @Craftmakerron29 күн бұрын

  Wind and solar are not dependable

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  @miltonzsАй бұрын

  How come there is so much plastic and nobody is talking about it :(

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  @lindsaydempsey5683Ай бұрын

  The challenge in AB and elsewhere for variable renewables energy (VRE) like wind and solar is how to firm that capacity to cover periods where there is naturally low output from VRE, which can be as low as 2 - 5% of rated capacity for extended periods. Standard battery storage can fill in for about 4 hours which isn't long enough to cover periods of lost output from VRE. AB has the additional challenge that we have very weak interties, meaning that we can't get that much of the missing generation from out of province.

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  @callawton9255Ай бұрын

  As always, how is you base load power in the long dark hours of winter going to be met by solar. Wind may supply some power but do you want to put your home on that power grid.

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  @anguscampbell1533Ай бұрын

  One of the biggest sources of emissions is home/commercial heating with natural gas. Replace those with ground to air and air to air central heat pumps and you reduce your emissions and lower your heating costs. For back up during extreme cold, existing natural gas or propane can be used and the heat extracted while cooling in the summer can be used for heating water. It has to be done so that when a homeowner has an older gas furnace in need of repairs, it is replaced with a central heat pump and all new homes/buildings have one installed.

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  @offgridwanabeАй бұрын

  Solar is so affordable the Oil industry installs huge arrays to power their refinement of the oil as their own product is too valuable to use.

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  @steve_787Ай бұрын

  In the UK our final coal plant, Ratcliff-on-Soar, had it's last coal delivery last week. They even renamed the train to mark the occasion. Should be Aug/Sept when it will close for good 😁

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  @Bushman9Ай бұрын

  Well, China and India should be happy… we got more coal to export.

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  @heronimousbrapson863Ай бұрын

  Sadly, it seems that the current UCP government has no interest in encouraging the expansion of renewables. Alberta will unfortunately tied to fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.

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  @ourv9603Ай бұрын

  Yeah, no more coal. No more steam power. We have better sources today. You wouldnt think of digging a well by hand when we have tools to do that quickly, easily & safer. You wouldnt think of cutting a field of wheat with a sycthe. Again we have tools to do that quicker, easier and safer. Coal is too hard to extract from underground. Too unsafe a process. It burns so dirty. There is plenty of natural Gas in the world, WAY more than there is coal so why waste out time? !

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  @djt8518Ай бұрын

  What now winter is coming you are going to freeze you will be burning that coal in a stove in your house

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  @willm5814Ай бұрын

  Alberta has a lot of wind, solar and the best geothermal company in the world…maybe go in that direction and end the boom and bust cycle

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  @willm5814Ай бұрын

  Now what? Maybe less cancer and lung disease…for starters

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  @douglascutler1037Ай бұрын

  As many as 7 million around the globe die each year from fossil fuel air pollution. Cars are a main source but all sectors contribute including power generation. Negative health impacts include heart disease, cancer, emphysema and Alzheimer's. You'd think pro-life conservatives would be very much in favour of the EV and clean energy transition.

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  @willm5814Ай бұрын

  @@douglascutler1037I explain that to anyone who will listen - it’s amazing to me that seemingly intelligent and aware people don’t realize how damaging the burning of fossil fuels is to their health - people pay billions to the medical community so they can find a cure for cancer - they pay no attention to the root cause

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  @KodyBeldАй бұрын

  Greenland is fully renewable I know. And I think most liberal European governments are high and pushing even higher, though I do have my counter arguments about the world health organizations medical mandate philosophy. For instance the flu has been here the whole 2000 and the vaxx did zilnch for it. Why so many boosters in a year in a half? Have you been working on "it" since 1970 or is it after the pandemic? I heard both contradictory stories. Other than that, equity is the future. But communism has historically been a failure and capitalism part two, this time with videos.

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  @dougerrohmerАй бұрын

  Are you high? A bit of a ramble there, son.

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  @jjazz154Ай бұрын

  Small Modular Nuclear power plants are a long term solution, that no one wants to talk about. Look at what is happening in Wyoming The biggest producer of coal in the US.. The governor had to make some unpopular decisions regarding the same problems with coal power generation. As a result of installing green generation and small modular nuclear power generation, the state is now exporting power to California, and making money.

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  @alhumphreys5784Ай бұрын

  Correct you are

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  @rps168924 күн бұрын

  It's too bad nobody can deliver a small modular nuclear plant today, thorium or otherwise. Maybe in another ten years. The nuclear power industry is kinda broken right now. It's still trying to build a technology that hasn't changed much since the early 1970s. Plants take twelve years and a 3x cost overrun if they complete them at all. Nuclear fission power should be the safest, cheapest, cleanest way to make electricity. If for no other reason than it takes so much less material and real estate than any other method. And it has an army of cheerleaders who imagine it already is those things, and who buy into all its excuses. I think the job has been given to the wrong kinds of organizations. The US Navy could do it right. NASA could do it. France and Canada came close. Toshiba and Southern Nuclear, not so much.

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  @douglasgray3206Ай бұрын

  I am sure Alberta will find some other way to keep their emissions rising at a record pace!

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  @BobQuigleyАй бұрын

  CCS is today's version of Exxon and fuel from algae. Exxon spent more money advertising it's green creds than it spent on science of algae to fuel. CCS is a stalling tactic similar to the hydrogen hopium green washing

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  @capnkirk5528Ай бұрын

  But how long before the hard-right nutbars and "Queen Smith" reverse it. Yup, I agree Trudeau HAS to go. He got in on "name recognition" and being a "pretty boy", and has done a mediocre job on most things. Poilievre will sell us out to the US, like Smith. Yay, what a sh***y choice we have, although not as sh***y as the US. (And dear god not Freeland). Yup, I agree Alberta should SELL EVERY DROP OF OIL it can. (Hey all you stupid "green" people out there, every drop Alberta sells is a drop RUSSIA CAN'T FFS). Yup, I agree that EVs aren't for everyone. But they ARE good for a LOT of people. Pickups aren't for everyone.

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  @rps168924 күн бұрын

  Problem is oil majors, with economies the size of nations, are the ones that really rule the roost when it comes to what is produced and sold. The US alone, has existing wells that are more than enough to eliminate all imports including their largest supplier, Canada. But oil companies choose not to, so they can keep those wells in "inventory" - keep them on the books as "reserves" to shore up stock prices.

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  @rgen28Ай бұрын

  Now get rid of natural gas and oil.

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  @jimthain8777Ай бұрын

  The political shenanigans will cost Alberta taxpayers money from their pockets, just so the Premier can keep her sponsors happy. It's well past the time politics was taken out of energy production. If renewables are cheapest then that's the way to go, no matter what political ideology you subscribe to.

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  @greenenergyfuturesАй бұрын

  You’d think. Apparently economics doesn’t trump ideology.

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  @5353JumperАй бұрын

  ​@@greenenergyfutures It's all about economics for who? Kleptocracy trumps common sense and citizen best interest.

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  @greenenergyfuturesАй бұрын

  Economics is not always a great tool, especially when we assume GDP is a good indicator when it is reporting activity such as towns burning down, car crashes, divorce, and war as contributing to "economic activity," which is blindly considered as good. But that aside, economics can be a tool in grid design today with the simple goal of producing electricity at the cheapest price and lowest impact on the environment. Solar and wind farms in Alberta bid into the market at zero which means the vast majority of the time they are bringing prices down. A study done last year found that using present conditions in Alberta grid, a 300 megawatt energy storage project could save $600,000 for consumers. "Could" being the operative word there. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hG12zcqvipmsdcY.html

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  @5353JumperАй бұрын

  @jimthain8777 Alberta has some particular faults with this plan though, due to petroleum industry greenwashing and other interference. 1. They greatly limit endpoint solar and battery storage through regulation so they are keeping the low cost solar in the hands of grid scale energy companies (partially privatized monopoly/oligopoly system). 2. Much of the wind and solar is not actually "powering the grid". Much of it is directly connected to petroleum operations. Refineries, extraction, carbon capture projects. So the low cost benefit is helping the petroleum companies while the citizens still buy power made mostly with natural gas generation. They also capture the grants, skills, materials for "green generation" and keep it away from other projects that would actually reduce fuel demand. 3. Carbon capture projects on energy production facilities is moronic. "Let's use a huge amount of energy reducing some of the emissions from our energy production" the math just does not work out. So using green generation to power carbon capture on a refinery or gas power plant is nowhere near as beneficial as it would be to just plug that green energy into the grid and reduce fuel consumption. 4. Even worse, the Alberta Plan is focused on Blue Hydrogen. Making hydrogen with Methan Reforming, then putting carbon capture on that, then powering the carbon capture with green electricity. Again the math does not work from an emission or consumer cost perspective. Just plug the green generation into the grid, or make Green Hydrogen with it to reduce the Black/Brown/Blue hydrogen production. But again Alberta is giving the petroleum companies all the money, labor and materials for these illogical plans and not to projects that would actually reduce emissions and increase energy supply while cutting fuel demand.

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  @allocater2Ай бұрын

  Ok Boomer. Set Carbon price to $600 (the planetary damage it causes) and you will see what is truly cheaper, because all fossil fuels will go bankrupt in 24 hours.

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  @peterryan7340Ай бұрын

  So Alberta has no heavy industry? But it does produce oil and gas so it transports emissions elsewhere 👍

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  @stickynorthАй бұрын

  That $2.4B is probably better spent on whichever SMR technology matures soon... There are plenty of good candidates to choose from including Moltex, NuScale, GE, Westinghouse and CANDU...

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  You'd get half a reactor for $2.4B, in seven years. Spend the same on PV and 24 hour grid batteries, and in seven months you'd get twice the electricity generation. The batteries would pay for themselves in 3 years from off duty cycle FCAS and automated impedance matching. That revenue could go to enhanced geothermal for on demand power any time, in just two more years. So a total of four times the power, essentially free without needing fuel or waste disposal or securing from skeery people, and with 1% the water use.

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  @greenenergyfuturesАй бұрын

  And this follows the logic of what we can do now that we know is economical. Fusion would be great, but it's still in the wishing and hoping stage of development. Small Nuclear sounds great (aside from waste and other issues) but the build time is so far in the future that the market will have completely changed by the time its built and the economics of nuclear are still terrible. Batteries on the other hand can be built today, with existing technology and they could make the grid so much more efficient consumers could save hundreds of millions of dollars. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hG12zcqvipmsdcY.html

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  @greenenergyfuturesАй бұрын

  We have long heard about the dream of deep geothermal which seems to get stuck in the proposal stage 99% of the time. However a Calgary company called EAVOR may have finally cracked the deep geothermal nut. Their closed loop technology mimics shallow geoexchange systems by building loops 4-7 km beneath the surface to harvest high temperatures almost anywhere (instead of just were the hot aquifers are). Geothermal could be the missing link for building the grid of the future by providing affordable power and heating for entire towns and cities. kzread.info/dash/bejne/g5xt0JaIaLGbmco.html

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  @@greenenergyfutures I studied nuclear. I've been part of fusion research. There is no solution in nuclear. It's not worth talking about except to point out that for the price of nuclear and in the time it would take, you can always do better with other fossil free solutions.

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  @@greenenergyfutures What holds back enhanced geothermal is government regulation obstructing use to prop up fossil -- regulatory capture.

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  @tomkelly8827Ай бұрын

  Natural gas is great as a backup. I love what they are doing in Medicine Hat. Concentrated solar combined with natural gas and wind turbines. I am surprised that Alberta has so little hydro power though. It seems like there must be loads of good locations there. As much as I like wind and solar, I will always say that well made dams are the best power source

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  @douglascutler1037Ай бұрын

  Battery energy storage is also a great back-up, especially to replace gas peakers. TSLA stock price is surging again. One reason is recent announcements that the energy storage sector of the Tesla business is now rapidly growing, expanding and increasing profits. And just getting started, ii is.

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  @stickynorthАй бұрын

  @@douglascutler1037 Bingo! South Australia did the same and its grid has never been cleaner... A few 100 MW battery storage farms would do wonders in Alberta...

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  @northernouthouseАй бұрын

  ​@@stickynorthAlberta pool price often hits $0.00 on windy days/nights. Unfortunately, there's no battery storage in Alberta.

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  @jimthain8777Ай бұрын

  A better backup is modern geothermal. Canada has a company that does just that. Look into Eavor Technologies Inc.

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  @douglascutler1037Ай бұрын

  @@stickynorth If only . . . If only the alleged hard-nosed economic Conservatives would look at the actual; numbers instead of protecting donors.

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  @glennmartin6492Ай бұрын

  Methane is MUCH more heat absorbing than CO2 even if it leaves the atmosphere earlier. It's consider 28 times the greenhouse gas than CO2. It's been calculated that if 3-5% of it leaks then it will be worse than coal. Some measurements have shown it leaks in Canada at 5-7%.

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  Only the 1 year GWP counts on a rising GHG, so that 28 times (the 100-year GWP) is for now irrelevant; CH4 is 120 times the GWP of CO2 on the 1 year scale. 1% leaks mean CH4 is worse than CO2. Far better to keep fossil in the ground, and use CH4 from landfills and biomass as much as possible to keep that out of the atmosphere.

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  @glennmartin6492Ай бұрын

  @@bartroberts1514 I'll leave the specifics to chemists but I agree a lot has to be done to eliminate Natural gas for its' methane and its' CO2 generation when burned. Time to have heat pumps and induction stoves favoured.

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  @@glennmartin6492 Check out Project Drawdown's Climate Solutions 101 and Roadmap.

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  @shane2129Ай бұрын

  60% emissions from coal to gas isn’t equivalent like he says. It’s comparing the dirtiest fossil fuel with the cleanest burning.

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  @zigartenАй бұрын

  I heard it as emission is emission, sure one cleaner, but the end of the day we've replaced one FF emission to another, albeit cleaner

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  @jimthain8777Ай бұрын

  Who said it was "cleanest burning"" Oh yeah, the fossil fuels industry who've lied to us about everything for my entire 56 years of living on this Earth. VERY trustworthy their words!

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  In theory, pure natural gas is the "cleanest burning". But fugitive emissions and incomplete combustion result in CH4 emissions 120 times worse than CO2.. and most gas isn't natural anymore, but the product of steam reformation or other synthesis, which is a dirty, leaky process that just chews up government subsidies while making things worse. The cleanest fossil fuel is leaving it all in the ground, and going with enhanced geothermal. Same jobs. Same tools. Same work. Zero emissions. And with UHVDC, far more lucrative exports to the USA.. without going through any other provinces.

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  @lindsaydempsey5683Ай бұрын

  You could say that, but if the objective is to reduce emissions by a substantial amount then a 40% reduction is big win, I would say. I'd love to cut the cost of my mortgage by 40%. Yes, we need to do more, and we are. AB is beating every other province in Canada in terms of emissions reductions and we should take some pride in that.

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  @bartroberts1514Ай бұрын

  @@lindsaydempsey5683 AB is exporting almost 5% of the global emissions, after those domestic reductions -- which happened when a previous government switched from coal to syngas, and hid the CO2e of the fugitive emissions. AB remains among the worst in the world.

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  @superspeederАй бұрын

  I have yet to see a grid-scale implementation of renewable energy that didn’t RAISE prices. Some of the most expensive electricity in North America comes from grids with the highest renewables.

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  @greenenergyfuturesАй бұрын

  Nope.

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  @superspeederАй бұрын

  @@greenenergyfutures explain California then?

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  @AlamodemАй бұрын

  Wind and solar on a huge scale are a joke and only a vote buying scam. Several places in Europe tried this. Major failure. Stop lying to people!

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  @KJSvitkoАй бұрын

  Wind and solar energy are safer, cleaner and CHEAPER than fossil fuels.