Re: AGW. LNG Worse Than Coal.

On 10/29/2024 7:41 PM, Titus G wrote:

Recent headlines report on research confirming that LNG has a far
greater negative impact on climate change than coal. I have been waiting
for D or Dimwire to raise this topic but not holding my breath. Back in
2014 the US was offering IMF and World Bank funding to Ukraine to
develop its natural gas industry to gain independence from Russia
despite a required doubling in the Ukranian price of gas and the Biden
crime family was profiting from that was part of that   A side benefit
of the US proxy war with Russia has been a significant increase in gas
exports for the US so neither Trump nor Harris are likely to consider
this problem if they obtain the power to do so. Almost fracking
unbelievable!

How did you escape my killfile again ?  I generally don't traffic with people who routinely call other people names.
But, going by the rules that CO2 is bad and H2O is good, your unURLed report here is wrong.
Most coal, depending on the coal mine, is 70% to 100% carbon (I am unsure about peat moss which may have a different range of carbon).  The other possible 30% can be up to 6% H2S (makes SO2), and up to 29% volatiles and sand (SiO2).  Most of the volatiles is CH4 (coal gas which makes CO2 and H2O) but there can be some CO2 and N2 trapped in there also.  I have run coal (lignite) units in the past with so much sand embedded in it that the coal was red, not black.  We called that lignite coal burner Mikey (it was Sandow Steam Electric Station #4, a six million hp steam boiler).
LNG (liquefied natural gas) is 90+% CH4.  There is some ethane and propane in there with possibly a little CO2 and/or N2.  CH4 combusts to 60% CO2 and 40% H2O.  LNG is created by liquefying natural gas, the cost is generally 6% of the LNG to be liquefied.
So coal combusts to almost 100% CO2 and SO2 with possibly some H2O in the 1% to 10% range.  LNG combusts to 60% CO2 and 40% H2O.  I submit that LNG is better for the aforementioned rules.
So how is this pertinent to Science Fiction and Fantasy, aka Speculative Fiction ?
Lynn