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Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social |
We really should just call "natural gas" by its actual name: methane. It's a fossil fuel, and burning it adds carbon to the atmosphere. The word "natural" is really unhelpful here, and it needs to go.
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Chris Bataille
@chrisbataille.bsky.social
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Would nominate “natural gas” should be “fossil methane”. Methane just denotes CH4.
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Aaron Cozen
@aaroncozen.bsky.social
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Just had a conversation with someone who has degrees from elite universities and did not know that natural gas is methane
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Topher
@greenfret.bsky.social
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Or perhaps "dirty methane" since the stuff getting burned is nothing close to pure methane. It includes such things as Nitrogen, Sulfur, Vanadium, Calcium, as well as various other hydrocarbons, and "Ash".
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Bill
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Maybe it's an anglophone thing but "erdgas" doesn't help either. I agree with you, methane is the best option although I have no idea of the purity of what comes through the pipes. I don't see why it shouldn't be used.
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Steve Fifield
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Uranium, Radon, Arsenic and Mercury are all naturally occurring substances that can kill you in very small doses. The assumption that natural products are somehow better or safer is a crazy myth. I'm constantly amazed that you seem to need to be a scientist to understand this stuff.
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Bernhard Werner
@bernhardwerner.bsky.social
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In before Shell announces their new "natural oil".
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@tujungadude.bsky.social
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Likely the term came about to contrast from manufactured gas e.g. coal gas which preceded it.
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Mayor of the Moon
@moonmayor.bsky.social
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I do love me some dinosaur fart stove tops
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Lions Den Artwork
@lionoob.bsky.social
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I'm pretty sure that's on purpose
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Selene🏳️⚧️ 💛🤍💜🖤
@selene3107.bsky.social
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It is not fossil fuel: we can produce it from organic waste. But I get your point about pollution
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Joe McConnell
@jfmcluggage.bsky.social
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Better'n that dang unnatural gas, anyway.
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Peter Flynn
@docum3nt.bsky.social
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Probably should. What I grew up with was human-made "town gas" AKA "coal gas", before they started drilling for "natural" gas. I don't think the former is made any more, is it? Time to call gas by its name.
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@axamaqueda.bsky.social
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Depends on the context. The gas as extracted from the undeground? It contains water, oil droplets, hydrogen sulfide, sulphur, propane and other larger gas molecules. So, natural gas is not misleading. The gas delivered by pipes at homes? That's near 100% methane, so call it methane, proped name.
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Justin Noormand
@justin-noormand.bsky.social
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One wonders what “unnatural gas” could possibly be.
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Dorin Lazăr
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Strangely enough, in Romanian we call it just „gas” or „methane gas” (gaz/gaz metan). Never called it „natural”, it really feels like it's a marketing term this one.
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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute
@8t3v3n.bsky.social
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Extinction rocks, extinction gas and extinction juice. (coal, gas and oil)
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Arriviste houso
@sunnydarkgreen.bsky.social
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Yes, but methane too neutral & too nerdy, IMO. I call all fossil gas, coal & oil mines carbon bombs, and those who dig them up are carbon bombers.
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Timlagor
@timlagor.bsky.social
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Let's call it Climate Gas
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Alison Tomlin
@alisontomlin.bsky.social
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Take your point but it's not pure methane usually which is why the term wasn't used I think. It has traces of other gases, up to a few percent. Fossil gas?
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Crescent System
@crescentsystem.bsky.social
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it's definitely used there DELIBERATELY to downplay the damage
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Guy Dawson
@bsdnazz.bsky.social
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Presumably it was a way to move people off town or coal gas. Unintended consequences and all that.
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@processanalyzer.bsky.social
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There is also coal seam gas which is a fossil gas.
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️
@kumararepublic.bsky.social
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It's about as believable as "clean coal" and "herbal cigarettes".
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Becky
@bebcky.bsky.social
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Do people really see "natural" in natural gas and think that means it's green and good? I find it hard to believe people are that ignorant, but I probably shouldn't
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Inner_panda
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I’d argue, but the constant humidity and wildfires have left me slightly melty 🎩
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