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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by panick21_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:27PM (#34100371)
In terms of the plant yes, but of course coal is horrible so yeah.

However, leakage in both new and existing gas wells, plus leakage all across the gas distribution infrastructure make this worse.

However you are right, and its kind of funny. The US despite not signing the Kyoto protocol actually achieved those goals because of gas while most other nations failed. France of course was already green by the time the conference happened.

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Re:Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift by marcosdumay on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:18PM (#34100795)
Well, gas leakage in coal mines isn't irrelevant either.

I don't think anybody knows which of the fossil fuels leaks more methane. They all leak lots of it, but the people with access to measure the leaks won't.

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