Clean Energy Benchmark Is Natural Gas: Today and for the Future

[rangerrebew]

Clean Energy Benchmark Is Natural Gas: Today and for the Future
9 hours ago Guest Blogger
By The Empowerment Alliance

Much has been said in recent months about America’s energy production and consumption. Specifically, which types of energy are optimal for today and — perhaps more importantly — for our needs tomorrow is a subject from town halls to coffee shop conversations and kitchen tables.

Bloomberg Intelligence’s research shows data centers, buildings filled with servers and other computing equipment for data storage and networking that supports operations and artificial intelligence (AI), could be responsible for as much as 17% of all U.S. electricity consumption by 2030.

One data center can require 50 times the electricity of a typical office building, according to The Department of Energy.

As America wrestles with its future energy needs, this indisputable fact remains: Natural gas is the affordable, reliable and clean energy source that should serve as the benchmark by which all other energy sources are measured.

Consider:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/31/clean-energy-benchmark-is-natural-gas-today-and-for-the-future/

[Fishrrman]

Natural gas user here (heat, hot water, cooking).

If Mr. Trump wants to "do something for the restoration of sound energy", he might consider letting go of the Keystone pipeline meme and instead push for ways to get more Pennsylvania-produced natural gas eastward into New England.

The main obstacle is New York state's leftist policy of not permitting any more natural gas pipelines to be built in that state.

There needs to be some kind of "entire-state eminent domain", adjudicated by the courts (U.S. Supreme Court in this case), to FORCE NY state to permit gas pipelines across its property and into Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont.

The only other land-based route to get gas into the New England states would be through Canada. Other than that, so long as NY state stands in the way, additional supplies will have to come in by ship (from... somewhere).

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts will not sue New York in the Federal Courts because methane is the Devil's flatulence.

I guess New England will need to turn to its original renewable source of energy - trees and whales - when the wind doesn't blow and the sun don't shine.

Trump should play the National Security / Defense Production Act card to "safeguard" energy infrastructure critical to Federal DoD installations and contractors in New England.

Electric Boat in Groton, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and Bath Iron Works won't be able to build new bathtubs toys for admirals without a couple of nice new shiny natural gas pipelines through New York.

They still haven't finished building the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) through Maine.

Building new energy infrastructure in New England is a complete $h!t$how because the moonbats in charge are Froot Loops.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There is a reason it is called Natural gas.

God's gift to man.  One needs to just scoop it out of the earth where He left it.

[ironhorsedriver]

I’m by no means an expert, but hydro electric seems to be the cleanest by far. Water in, water out.