Brians. McCarthy . . . Dumbass!
Franzia
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My hot take is people on mastodon are there because they want defederated twitter and aren't as nerdy about trying new online social experiences
Youtube is so fucking captured by money its absurd.
OMG. Well, that clears it up. This whole CP2 thing is such bullshit. 😂
The most important question to me is this: What has the EU done, since the war, to reduce the need to burn Natural Gas?
Guardian: UK vs French Heat Pump Quantities
Has the US supported them in that goal?
US Might send Heat Pumps to EU
Vox: US Defense Production Act
Is this an emergency or is it opportunistic?
Yes, it's opportunistic. The US government is not searxhjng for or building out new solutions to EU energy demands. Prices are remaining high based on marketing about the war. Gas companies are making an enormous profit.
People like me who think "Oh but we need the gas, to replace Russian supply, because of the war" are buying in to a narrative this is useful for profiteering gas corporations.
LA Times: Oppose CP2
Sierra Club: Oppose CP2
Greenpeace: Biden Can Stop CP2
Recent Greenpeace International research debunked the gas industry’s claim that new terminal projects are necessary to address the short-term energy crunch in Europe.
The point that all of these climate activists are getting at is that in order to approve this project, the Department of Energy needs to decide it's in the public interest and has public approval. So while they've never rejected a project based on this clause before, climate activism could potentially meet this as a challenge. If we shout from the rooftops about this, we could pressure the DOE into stopping.
It seems like these projections are focused on the US' responsibility for emissions, rather than a global approach to.. Global climate change. This supply used to come from Russia, now some of it is coming from the US. Right?
Lmao Biden and the EU signed a ban in Methane in 2021.
https://www.symonspa.com/post/analysis-of-nepa-reviews-for-fossil-fuel-projects
Symons' Analysis on his personal website.
Symons has also written Opinion Editorials for the Hill Multiple Times:(1) (2) While it seemed at first he is just attacking Biden for an opportunistic jab, he's been doing the same thing going back a decade. Consistent.
GHG emissions for just one LNG export project, known as Calcasieu Pass 2 or CP2, would be 20x more than Willow, according to an analysis by Jeremy Symons, policy adv. at EPA.
“The Willow project was a carbon bomb, but the CP2 project is a megabomb when it comes to climate change,” Symons said in an interview.
I don't understand why this is. Why?
My understanding currently is that Methane, when burned, isn't very polluting. But Methane leaking from unwatched rigs is super polluting. Sci American on Methane Leaks
Natural Gas is mostly Methane. So what's the difference that makes this worse than shipping LNG? -- because building infrastructure for it provides a wedge for gas companies to keep pumping well after the conflict is over. It "locks us in."
Finally, what's the proposed alternative? Sounds like Europe is facing this dangerous energy supply shortage thanks to the Russia Ukraine War, (this is what the gas companies want us to think) and short of installing heat pumps in hundreds of millions of homes, buildings, and districts in the past year, Europeans are gonna be burning natural gas to stay safely warm this winter.
All European Countries Aggressively Installing Heat Pumps
Bloomberg: Europe Supply Heat Pumps for War
Bloomberg: New German LNG Terminal
-- So how does CP2 work? Who receives this US-Supplied methane and how?
This rules list is overwhelming. Some of these things I haven't heard of or can't think of an example of.
What is good faith discussion about ideology, but no sectarianism? Like I can be a... M & M's fan and you a Skittles fan, and we both want a world that supports more Candy, but I can't say you're wrong and I can't say when we disagree it will result in bad candy being in charge?
What are the consequences for bad behavior? Am I gonna have my comment removed? Will that removal include an explanation? Will I be banned?
What is a historically classified socialist country and why can't I say they are wrong? That sounds like a highly academic discussion to me.
wikipedia isn't a valid source
Wikipedia is a great source though, 99% of the time the text on wikipedia sums up what's in several sources linked below. So now I could go to wikipedia and the writer could have made a decision based on 3 different slightly conflicting sources, I pick the first one - now my argument seems stronger but it might be missing extra context.
A lot of the time I would rather someone link me to Wikipedia than Corporate News (CNN, NBC).
Oh okay so we can have fun on the weekends when the normies are off from work 😋 neato, sounds like a board designed to be a headache 5 days of the week.
What do I even post here, theory? I don't care much about theory.
What is this community aimed at accomplishing?
I'm new to this but KDE basically has all of the aesthetics customization features and quality of life features I always wanted out of Windows + Rainmeter. Finally I can have my videos pinned on the top easily every time. Finally I can have my fancy widgets. I can have universal color themes and fonts beyond what Windows ever offered. So there is more abstract stuff out there, but for now I'm living the long lost dream.
Purity is the enemy of innovation, got it.
Wait WHAT