Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
by simion314 on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:32PM
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For sure if you can transport liquids and gas you can transport some electricity to the nearby villages/city you pollute with your gases. I think you can make profiit but not big profit from this so why bother. It is like tech giants, why bother with a good product with paying customers if it does not make obscene amount of money.
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Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
by bumby on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:32PM
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Sure, but this is one of those arguments that only works well in theory.
Oil and gas companies are usually distinct from the utilities (regulated monopolies) that provide electricity. If you want the O&G companies to subsidize the local populations energy, it makes more sense for them to do so with their existing infrastructure rather than forcing them to use some inefficient process. It will be cheaper for all involved.
The better solution is to just price the externality with regulation.