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Re:The large crack in the Antarctic ice shelf has grown 6 miles by KirinDave on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:49AM (#13445034)
This is an odd request. Everything is undercutting coal. Coal has always been a rather expensive and dangerous technology, it's just that it's plentiful and in the land rights of Western powers.

Other forms of energy have been undercutting it since thermal steam rigs started working in North African farms. Probably longer when you consider the history of wind power.

If Natural Gas wasn't so arduous to obtain, a carbon liberator, and damaging to the water table to obtain, I suspect we'd be more excited about it.

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Re:The large crack in the Antarctic ice shelf has grown 6 miles by JoeAltmaier on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:50AM (#13445052)
If Methane Hydrates work out, then natural gas will be less arduous to obtain - port cities will have pipes coming up from the seafloor into the harbor, delivering it to their millions of residents.
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Re:The large crack in the Antarctic ice shelf has grown 6 miles by KirinDave on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:01PM (#13445578)
It's true, but it'd be nice if we were using oceanic floor pressure to sequester carbon rather than liberate more, even if on the long balance it's carbon neutral.

We really need to work out practices where we actively remove carbon from the air.

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