This is a bad article. Its misrepresenting the paper its based on.
The study this article is based on was represented here on Lemmy 4 days ago with a much better (but still not great) article. That Lemmy conversation is : HERE
I’ll post here the important piece I posted there:
The study author’s argument isn’t against methane or even fracking per se. Its against the extra pollution from EXPORTING methane by ships.
I would paraphrase the study author’s position more clearly as: “A ship full of coal produces less pollution than a ship full of liquid methane because of all the leakage and energy needed to make that ship full of methane then back to burnable natural gas”
Thank you!
We need real action on power - renewables and nuclear are the future.
1000% agree.
It can become frustrating to learn or deal with people who haven’t informed themselves about the advancements in nuclear power. Safer methods of energy generation have been developed since the Fukushima incident (March 2011.)
Honestly, at the time Fukushima happened the reactor was already decades out of date - we had technology at the time that would have prevented any disaster (i.e. molten salt reactors using thorium that self destruct safely if a chain reaction occurs).
