Tesla is fast

The only options John Larkin is aware of. There are others, but you've got to be able to do minimal critical thinking before you can notice them.

John Larkin has the certainties, but he hasn't graduated to getting the doubts yet.

Watch the M2M on BTC.

I take it you mean a

I'm in a warm house, in front of a computer drinking hot Peets coffee. All that thanks to fossil fuel. I don't ignore this stuff; I appreciate it all the time, as I have for decades.

Fossil fuels are lifting the world out of miserable poverty. Net Zero, if that crazy idea ever could happen, would kill billions and set the world back centuries.

But be as afraid as you want to be. Some people live in fear by nature. There are hilarious youtubes of neurotic terrified young airheads who have despaired on life because AGW will destroy all human life soon.

Some things that have revolutionized agricultural yield are ammonia-based fertilizers, farm machinery, pumped watering, transport, and more CO2. All from fossil fuels.

Well, the CO2 increase was probably mostly natural.

The greenies would eliminate one and have us eat the other.

Have lifted the world out of miserable poverty. Excess CO2 in the atmosphere is likely to get it back there.

If implemented by people as silly as John Larkin, it might do that. Renewable energy is now cheaper that the energy you generate by fossil carbon, but the people who sell the fossil carbon as fuel aren't enthusiastic about admitting it.

It won't, but anthropogenic global warming is already making life more difficult for some people. The airheads who haven't noticed aren't in the least funny.

The extra CO2 is demonstrably from burning fossil fuels. The rest you can get from renewable energy sources.

Wrong.

Yup. The other part of it is the flares. You'd be driving through Wyoming at night in the middle of nowhere and there would be flares miles off the road. Rather eerie.

I don't know if the still burn the gas off oil wells, gorbal warming and all, you know.

Grasshoppers are good! Reese has went mainstream in their selections but in the '50 they had an attack of weird:

Some of the indigenous tribes liked grasshopper. Harvesting didn't involve nets. You set fire to the field and when the flames died down you gathered the hoppers; the annoying legs and wings would be burned off leaving a tasty toasted hopper.

It's not as far fetched as it sounds. There's a lot of good eating on a Carolina grasshopper.

Sometimes I just have to laugh. I don't know if the idiot is just an idiot, or if he posts such clearly silly things, just to get a response, which is not at all unlike him, by his own admission. But even funnier is that we all keep playing along, giving him the attention he craves.

He reminds me of a guy who used to post in the radio groups, I say "used to" because I don't read them anymore. I can't recall his name anymore, but he would respond to everything anyone said, including countless arguments. The guy became rather famous and any time he entered a new group, he very quickly was spotted and pointed out.

Larkin is a bit more highly functioning, but he still has various self destructive tendencies. I'm just surprised that people here continue to rise to the bait with him.

Whatever...

Well said, indeed! I can't recall a more erudite retort!

Better to burn it than to release it. But then anyone who is paying attention knows that.

A lot of stranded gas is now liquefied using thermoacoustic fridges powered by a much smaller amount of gas. IIRC the yield is something like 70%, which is a big win.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

After a little reading the volume dropped off for a while but has picked up again.

EDF said other satellite data indicates Permian operators sent 280 Bcf of gas worth about $420 million up their flare stacks in 2019, which was “more than enough to supply every home in Texas.”

It wouldn't have helped the infrastructure problems but it's ironic that during the Big Freeze last year the varmints in the Permian were warm and cozy.

The stranded gas problem has been around for a long time.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Russia has it big time. Assuming the ever build the Alaska gas pipeline the logical path from the Siberian fields would be across the Bering and hook into the Alaskan pipe, not that that will ever happen. The Bakken isn't much better. For that matter while the Marcellus play isn't technically stranded no way are they going to build a pipeline to get it to New England, where they've been known to import LNG from Russia. (Thank you, Jones Act).

But aren't greenies all vegetarians?

We wouldn't die off because of lack of heating and cars. We would just live a less fun life.

Either that was pathetic sarcasm, or you have no reason to be irritated by Larkin.

Better to store it and sell it, nothing to do with green s*it, it's to do with profit. If you're letting it off regularly and nobody wants it, then why not set up a small generator to use it and feed power into the grid?