Fracking and natural gas

[Ryuushin]

Call me a cynic but regulation and oversight hasn't protected us from recent disasters..

[Atreides]

I'm not saying it does either, but it's not like it's front page news whenever regulation/oversight actually works. You only hear about planes that crash, not the 99.9% of flights that are safe

[Ryuushin]

True. I just think that there are better options though but oh well.

[Rhyis.]

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[Altariel]

Yeah, unfortuantely I wish they would call it something else, everytime I hear the term I can only hear Saul Tigh's voice...

[Rocl]

Priran, please stick to being confused with Pirian... oh wait, you are, thanks!

There are about 30,000 better comebacks than that. Really now, trying to insult Priran and falling flat, that's a whole new level of autism.

[archibaldcrane]

Not sure how we got from natural gas to nuclear energy. Nuclear produces electricity - natural gas (usually) doesn't. Granted, you can have electric heaters and electric stoves instead of natural gas burning ones - but one source is not a direct replacement for the other.

[Priran]

There are about 30,000 better comebacks than that. Really now, trying to insult Priran and falling flat, that's a whole new level of autism.

you know what rocl

[Atreides]

Not sure how we got from natural gas to nuclear energy. Nuclear produces electricity - natural gas (usually) doesn't. Granted, you can have electric heaters and electric stoves instead of natural gas burning ones - but one source is not a direct replacement for the other.

natural gas accounts for ~20% of all electricity generated in the united states

Spoiler: show

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[archibaldcrane]

natural gas accounts for ~20% of all electricity generated in the united states

Ah, that's more than I thought.

[Atreides]

The thing that really still gets me is that we only burn petroleum for less than 2% of our electricity considering how much we obsess about oil

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[Cantih]

if you took all water on the planet (including ice and seawater) and put it into a 1 gallon jug, the total available fresh water for every human on earth would be just 1 tablespoon

Wait... what?
Could you re-parse that so it's a bit more clear.

[Restrat]

imagine a one gallon jug represents all water on earth, including sea water and water frozen in ice at the poles. one tablespoon would the represent freshwater we drink

[Atreides]

If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.

[Cantih]

Aha, much better, thanks.
The initial reading made it sound like there would only be 1 tablespoon of water, for each person.

[Kerberoz]

Yeah, unfortuantely I wish they would call it something else, everytime I hear the term I can only hear Saul Tigh's voice...

Seriously..

Spoiler: show

[zoobernut]

Similar to how, if you reduced the population of the world to 100 people, only 1 would have a college education.

Or one of my favorite if the sun was the size of a basketball the earth would be the size of the head of a pin and be over 2 thousand feet away from it.