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Why do we pipe natural gas into homes?
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because heat pumps and green energy weren't a thing in the US until recently!
heat efficiency is weird. electric heaters are 100% efficient, but 1) they're only as efficient as the generator, and 2) transmission losses add up. and until recently, most power was generated by coal and natural gas. turning those into electricity is lossy, since lots of energy is lost as waste heat. so why not send the gas you were going to burn for electricity directly to the customer?
heat pumps can be 300-400% efficient, since they move heat - from outdoors, into the home - rather than generating it. they can get >100% efficiency even in cold climates! but stupidly the US never bothered make our air conditioners reversible, or every home would have a heat pump by now.
and with solar/wind (for peak) + nuclear or grid storage (for base) power, we can now get rid of natural gas. ...once we give everybody heat pumps. ...and shutdown our gas generators. ...we should probably get on that.
No, I'm sorry, the answe is "profit." The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn't make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don't expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.
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Same with cars, even if we completely ignore climate change we maybe got a century left of oil before it's too expensive to drive. By not investing in other transportation now we're just making it more painful when we finally do rip the bandaid off.
The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.
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There's something terribly offputting to me about this art/animation style yet it keeps cropping up in various shows
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Most climate ads etc aew propaganda by the billionaires to convince us that it’s our fault the planet is fucked. It’s actually their fault and im done taking the blame
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There's something terribly offputting to me about this art/animation style yet it keeps cropping up in various shows
Cell-shaded 3D CGI mixed with traditional cartoon style?
I first saw this in Futurama in the late 90s for a TV show.
For CGI mixing without cell-shading, the ballroom in Beauty and the Beast did this.
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Most climate ads etc aew propaganda by the billionaires to convince us that it’s our fault the planet is fucked. It’s actually their fault and im done taking the blame
We need to map out the bunkers / assets of our elites. To better play chicken with them. Let's all live like they do and if their example destroys the world, we make sure to clean up our mess on our way out... for the people who come after us.
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Most of the problem with meat production comes from the way we produce meat, rather than the amount. Which is inevitably dictated by big money interests, simply being allowed to do whatever they want, in order to maximize profit margins.
Bovines produce huge amounts of methane. There is no getting around that fact.
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Whatever dude. You're the one who's delusionally posting silly statements, and then decided to double down on it by dragging vaccine conspiracy nonsense in to it.
Touch grass bro.
Can you explain to me what is delusional here? I don’t get it.
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Bovines produce huge amounts of methane. There is no getting around that fact.
That's not actually as true as people have been led to believe. If cow farts were really such a large factor, then we would have already been having a climate change issue, based simply on the natural dietary habits of grazing animals.
The majority of the emissions attributed to the meat industry are due to background factors involved in their care and upkeep. It's a very resource heavy process, that produces an enormous amount of waste. They include everything in their assessments, from their food production, all the way down to heating and electricity requirements for their facilities. Depending on the area, that can be as bad as coal-burning power plants and diesel engines to harvest hay. Nothing about the meat industry is "clean".
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Can you explain to me what is delusional here? I don’t get it.
Clearly.
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Cell-shaded 3D CGI mixed with traditional cartoon style?
I first saw this in Futurama in the late 90s for a TV show.
For CGI mixing without cell-shading, the ballroom in Beauty and the Beast did this.
Really cool Futurama shoutout. I recognized it as well, when they are doing a rotating shot of the Planet Express building. Family Guy was quick to pick ut up as well. Kinda jarring, but also quite cool.