Baffled by Science

[RUNCHARGER]

We've got tons of natural gas as well. So why not just power cars and trucks with LNG then. Some are now but it's not being pushed. WTF would a govt. think it's better to generate electricity with natural gas rather than just go directly into cars and trucks and to a home generator? None of this makes sense and I've learned not to trust anything govt. tells us is the "right thing".

[Brads70]

None of this makes sense and I've learned not to trust anything govt. tells us is the "right thing".

Agreed!  Not many positive things the government does well. Like always follow the money which almost always leads to corruption.  Remember when the government told us we all had to switch to those swirly light bulbs and couldn't buy the old style?  You know the ones that caught fire.  Or the latest fiasco is the covid response and excess deaths we are now experiencing. Every time without exception you can count on the politicians lining their pockets when they force a "great idea" on us.
Fear is the tactic they use to control, same old story over and over again. Effective on those that can't think critically. Power( control) and money, same old cycles repeating!
Let me know when " politicians and millionaires are selling their waterfront properties, you know like Martha's Vineyard and Florida  for example. Or when they ban personal/private aircraft and yachts, and cruise ships, I could go on and on. The hypocrisy is rank!
How many politicians and wealth people have gotten filthy rich off this current fear mongering?
As I see it "climate change" is a real natural thing. It has always been and will always be. If you live near an ocean, expect hurricanes from time to time, if you live near a forest, expect forest fires . In fact if man was not here forest fires would burn till they exhausted fuel or winter came! Ponder that!  If you live near a river, expect it to flood from time to time. Live in or near a desert, expect to have water issues and heat! Live in the mountains?, expect landslides . Live in the plains, expect tornadoes from time to time.

Then factor in that governments have been involved in Weather modification for many years. It's not a conspiracy theory. Are they helping or screwing things up?  Google "Weather modification"  "Chem trails" are a distinct possibility, not just con trails. Do you really think they would tell you what they are experimenting with?

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/weather-modification#:~:text=as%20silver%20iodide.-,Techniques,more%20rapidly%20than%20the%20droplets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification


I'm all for building a better mousetrap. I'm not convinced electric is the solution. I do know it will make a few people and a lot of politician's really rich. "Insider trading" much?
I'm all for how about stopping using the oceans and waterways as a garbage dump, stop wrapping all my food in plastic, etc..... don't crap in your sandbox sort of mentality. Get rid of planned obsolescence, make stuff last so we don't have to throw it out and make more. Can't do that though, who makes more money when you buy a new one? Taxes every time you buy a new one... Too much waist in our society's.
I'm also for " science" but not the science thats funded to get the answer that the guy making the money wants. Again thinking about Covid and the vaccine. Real science is always evolving, no such thing as "settled science"    "We" are not that smart!

[chargerdon]

It does make sense...   I.e the efficiency of a natural gas fired power plant is around 45%, while the efficiency of gasoline engines is around 20% and even lower for LNG engines.    By efficiency it is meant what percentage of the energy is actually captured.   In a internal combustion engine the bulk of the energy made is heat which is wasted.   

[torredcuda]

Natural gas is cleaner than coal but by no means good for the environment as it does produce CO2 - "About 117 pounds of CO2 are produced per million British thermal units (MMBtu) equivalent of natural gas compared with more than 200 pounds of CO2 per MMBtu of coal and more than 160 pounds per MMBtu of distillate fuel oil." Maybe by 2035 they will have an EV truck that can tow 10,000 pounds 400 miles with hardly any stops and waiting to charge but I`ll believe it when I see it. I am in the Northeast where electricity is EXPENSIVE and I live close enough to a nuclear plant to be vaporized if it ever had a meltdown so at least locally a nuke plant was not very helpfull. We haven`t had any brownouts but there are still worries about. In other parts of the country it is a much more serious issue and has been for years with no solutions yet so there is nothing that makes me think they will all of the sudden come up with one to meet even higher demands.