Whoa.

Oh - and the exhaust from the larger of the two gas plants would blow over #Hobbs #NM just a few miles away. 5/5

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The company also argues that about a third of the energy produced at one plant should be labeled a “zero #carbon resource” because of another loophole based on reducing #methane emissions somewhere along the line – in this case in the oil and gas fields... 4/5

... unless the PRC decides they don’t. Those two plants would provide 51% of the #energy in the package.
The SPSC argues that they should be allowed to build the plants because doing so avoids reliability and affordability issues – a specific loophole in the law... 3/5

...for eight new power plants to provide power in West Texas and a swath of southeast New Mexico, in large part to electrify oil and gas operations there. Six of the eight are renewable energy facilities, and two are gas-fired plants that could run afoul of the Energy Transition Act... 2/5

"It should be extremely cheap and plentiful in the future."

Cue: Fusion

Leaving aside the fact that green hydrogen is exceptionally expensive to produce, making it kinda absurd to burn in a power plant (of all things), where will they get it?

He missed the rise of western dictators, but the rest...
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/n...