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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AGW. LNG Worse Than Coal.
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:32:45 -0500
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On 10/30/2024 1:17 AM, Titus G wrote:
> On 30/10/24 15:43, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> On 10/29/24 19:06, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
> 
> Have I just won an award for the first off topic post in several decades
> to this group?
> 
>>      It is not pertinent to this Newsgroup at all but that is one of
>> the characteristics of Trolls spreading disinformation at the behest
>> of either their own or other causes that they do not care a whit for
>> the nature of the group in or its interests. They just have to get
>> the lies out.
>>      
>>      bliss
>>
> 
> Thank you, Bliss, for your on topic contributions to the group.
> Major off topic subjects that have been extremely popular in recent
> years include Electric vs ICE vehicles, Covid 19 and AGW.
> The "lies" I am getting out are from established and respected media.

There is no respected media in the USA.

Lynn