In 2022, U.S. production grew by 3.6% to a new all-time high of 94.7 billion cubic feet per day.

When burned, that’s 60,000 tons CO2/day.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of it’s going to Europe as a replacement for Russian gas.

      The main problem is that everybody’s been switching from coal to gas instead of wind/solar/nuclear, as if drinking more water makes it ok to piss in the pool.

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        Wasn’t natural gas mostly used because coal was literally causing cancer and dog shit air quality everywhere?

        Also, natural gas is a pretty efficient source of heating as far as things go… At least until heat pumps got reliable enough to replace it.

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          1 year ago

          Methane is certainly less bad than coal, but it still moves carbon from the ground to the air that we don’t know how to move back.