Liquefied natural gas leaves a carbon footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study.
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”
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”