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hunter

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4. To put this in perspective 97,100 metric tons of methane were accidentally released...
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 01:34 PM
Feb 2024

... in the Aliso Canyon gas leak of 2015-2016. That leak was just a tiny fraction of the overall gas supply in the U.S.A., just a drop in the bucket.

It's highly unlikely naturally occurring hydrogen will ever be a significant energy resource..

Stories like this are interesting from a scientific perspective but they also serve as distractions. We need to quit fossil fuels now. Things like undiscovered hydrogen reserves, fusion power, or magical batteries are not going to save us.

We already have all the tools and technologies we need to quit fossil fuels. We just have to do it.

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