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Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People by tick_tock_tick on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:10PM (#37079672)
> natural gas has to be removed from the market as the supply of gas is finite

I'd drop this argument your other points are good but while gas might technically be finite it's not on any timescale that matters here.

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Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People by hinkley on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:13PM (#37081141)
It's also, head and shoulders above all other fossil fuels, highly amenable to being synthetically produced using renewable resources.
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Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People by mschuster91 on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:58AM (#37085553)
... which is still insanely wasteful because methane synthesis from scratch is just 50-60% efficient, and capacities are going to be limited - we need all the synth-fuel we can get for long distance air flight and transoceanic ships because these two usecases can't reasonably be shifted towards electric propulsion.

Making synth-methane just to burn it in a stove which loses a lot of heat to the environment compared to an induction stove.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00166-2

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