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There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Re: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Post by FreeFull »

_Microft wrote: post #3

... and it better stays there. Building up more capacity to extract fossil fuels is not what we should be doing right now.

It might still be better to extract it and burn it than to let it off-gas into the atmosphere on its own when the ice melts. Methane is a significantly stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Re: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Post by doombolt »

_Microft wrote: post #3

... and it better stays there. Building up more capacity to extract fossil fuels is not what we should be doing right now.

Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports.

Economic pressure on Russia leads to increase of importance of oil and gas sector as other sectors plunge. This leads to more capacity, more offering. Which leads to price correction, even more offering as prices fall and have to be made for. Which in total leads to massive use of cheap gas.

If there was someone committed to decrease in fossil fuel usage they will be making sure that Russia turns into Norway economically and politically. Meaning much fewer extraction of much more expensive fuels and more effort to not knock the ecology in the process.

Re: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Post by ben_w »

doombolt wrote: post #6
_Microft wrote: post #3

... and it better stays there. Building up more capacity to extract fossil fuels is not what we should be doing right now.

Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports. Economic pressure on Russia leads to increase of importance of oil and gas sector as other sectors plunge. This leads to more capacity, more offering. Which leads to price correction, even more offering as prices fall and have to be made for. Which in total leads to massive use of cheap gas. If there was someone committed to decrease in fossil fuel usage they will be…

What happens when those exports stop being reliable, if and when renewables get cheap enough that electrolysing hydrogen from water is still cheaper than mining methane from Siberia despite the inefficiency of the former?

Re: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

mirimir wrote: post #5
LandR wrote: post #2

There are some beautiful photos in this article! Love the guy taking a rest in the snow.

I guess so. But all I can see are extremely fuzzy images.[0] Anyone know why I might be seeing that? 0) https://keybase.pub/mirimir/flare.png

Do you have javascript disabled or a slow connection? That looks like a low res image to make the site load quicker before the higher quality (larger file size) images load.

Re: There Is Gas Under the Tundra

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Post by TeMPOraL »

mirimir wrote: post #5
LandR wrote: post #2

There are some beautiful photos in this article! Love the guy taking a rest in the snow.

I guess so. But all I can see are extremely fuzzy images.[0] Anyone know why I might be seeing that? 0) https://keybase.pub/mirimir/flare.png

Yup, check your JS blocking and/or connection. I can confirm that the pictures in this article are both high-quality and simply beautiful (especially for those of us who love industrial porn).
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