2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support fracking, or coal? [View all]Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Building up the methane industry without investing in renewables is a disaster.
Consider all the multi-billions of dollars that were poured into the natural gas industry, building up its infrastructure and operations over the last 10 years.
Can you imagine if that had been invested in wind and solar instead? In research, and also in efficiency and energy conservation. And in building the new infrastructure. Or even if half the money had been used like that.
What do you imagine? Do you think we would be sitting here in the dark not able to use our computers because there's no electricity? Because that's what you just said. So I guess that's what you think. Burn methane or we have no electricity and millions of people will die? You actually believe there is no other way to generate electricity?
Why did we invest multi billions more in infrastructure for fracking instead of for wind and solar?
I'll spell it out: because the industry thinks gas is more profitable and they're probably right. You're being sorely naive as to what drives these decisions.
We have most of the technology we need to move forward to a sustainable energy solution. We can work on closing the gap with research. The main obstacles are political, not technological.