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Natural Gas is such a dumb energy source.
It's incompressible bullshit that needs to be frozen to negative a million degrees to become liquid.
Otherwise you need to transport it in pipelines which need to be built out everywhere.
And the only reason anyone messes around with this dumb shit is because it's way cheaper than anything else.

It's more expensive.

@cjd The other reason is less CO2 from combustion, and cleaner than coal. But yeah, shipping it in liquid form eradicates the emissions savings.

CO2 is a meme, but air quality where powerplants are located near populated areas is an important consideration.

But at this point, it's even more expensive than like propane so it's pretty dumb.

Anyway, countries just need to get off their collective behinds and build nuclear generation capacity. This business of mining, shipping, and burning is mega dumb.