For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
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Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#2Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#3Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Yep. The Alberta government has their head stuck in the sand (pun intended) around renewables as they existentially threaten their current economy. They have repeatedly shown that they’d rather double down than try and diversify.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-alberta-set-b...
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#4Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Which is worse in terms of greenhouse emissions but it's something I guess.
Instead of "natural gas", we should just switch to saying methane, which is what that generally is.
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#5Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Which is worse in terms of greenhouse emissions but it's something I guess. Instead of "natural gas", we should just switch to saying methane, which is what that generally is.
No? Methane produces less than half the CO2 per kwh than coal.
Which is still bad, but not worse or as bad.
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is worse in terms of greenhouse emissions but it's something I guess. Instead of "natural gas", we should just switch to saying methane, which is what that generally is.
No? Methane produces less than half the CO2 per kwh than coal. Which is still bad, but not worse or as bad . https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
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Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is worse in terms of greenhouse emissions but it's something I guess. Instead of "natural gas", we should just switch to saying methane, which is what that generally is.
No? Methane produces less than half the CO2 per kwh than coal. Which is still bad, but not worse or as bad . https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
Methane burned for electricity is better than coal no doubt. But methane that escapes into the atmosphere is way worse than CO2 in the nearish term. And not every extraction company is super thrilled about proper containment.
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#8Let's see how long it takes them to realize they should have gone with the latest nuclear power tech and will eventually be unable to meet demand with anything but coal or nuclear (unless something changes).
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#9Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Well, it's hard to get someone to hate their source of income.
Re: For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
No? Methane produces less than half the CO2 per kwh than coal. Which is still bad, but not worse or as bad . https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
Methane burned for electricity is better than coal no doubt. But methane that escapes into the atmosphere is way worse than CO2 in the nearish term. And not every extraction company is super thrilled about proper containment.
A very small percent is not contained though, and even most vented is flared.