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adultdaycare81 t1_ixit5s9 wrote

We should build the Natural Gas pipeline that mass and nh shot down in 2016. It’s clear we need it for at least a decade as we build renewables.

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Myotherside t1_ixlms1o wrote

Why would you build something with a 50 year design life that will take 10 years to build if you can only realistically use it for “a decade or so”.

It would be 50 more years of near total reliance on LNG.

Politicians excel at providing false choices

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adultdaycare81 t1_ixlsfqb wrote

We will be burning NatGas for 50 years. Baseload, backup and industrial demand it. I love renewables but it’s not a panacea

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Myotherside t1_ixub0dd wrote

No one thinks it’s a panacea but talking points like the one you just repeated are a justification for never even trying. We can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce base load and SIGNIFICANTLY reduce peak loads with renewables but we are in a 50 year struggle with big capital who can’t make as much money off of decentralized and green alternatives.

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ProgMM t1_ixjxyk4 wrote

How would that help the fact that the natural gas is expensive upstream in the supply chain from that

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adultdaycare81 t1_ixjyo1f wrote

Nat gas is cheap at the pipeline. Expensive when it has to be turned into LNG and brought here on American ships (Jones act). You would have read that in the article, if had read the article.

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