Unless you're suggesting culling a few billion people...we have this problem now and need to solve it.

As with every industrial process, the waste is considered useless and or unimportant until it isn't.

But industry isn't likely to do anything that costs them extra so we need regulation to force such changes far ahead of their short term bottom line.

The point is that the methane does 2 things. It is 100x worse for 2 decades....and then it becomes CO2 and exists for centuries.

So burning it now *is* the better choice of 2 terrible choices. But *only* reclaimed methane, not nat gas from the ground ;-)

I think his confusion is your combination of the two things in this statement "capture the methane and run the exhaust through a scrubber (even a pool of water that is later evaporated)"

Capturing methane and running it through water isn't a solution. I think you meant "burn the trash or capture the methane (and burn that)...."

You need to learn basic economics and logic. If you own the infrastructure, it's *expensive* to lay an entire duplicate network. That's a barrier to entry that you wield against competitors. The existing network was built based on full constituent/monopoly access, the franchise agreement. A competitor doesn't have that and have to build a equivalent network on the hope of some percentage of the market? You've gone bankrupt I'm guessing

Lol, what incentives does a company with a captive market have to enable competitors?

The issue is a captive audience isn't a free market and there's a very high barrier to entry further making it not viable as a free market.

Infrastructure can't be free market because it's not realistic to run 15 copies of that physical infrastructure. One set of water pipes, one set of electric, gas etc.

The issue here is cable and internet haven't, until recently, been considered 'infrastructure'. Cities and towns contracted with a single provider to 'build' the network out with the promise of regulated monopoly to recoup costs. Not a bad concept but they didn't put an end date on it.

We need locally owned municipal systems, like the water, gas, electric for internet/tv etc. But it's tough to get there with, now megasize Verizon and Comcast, buying off state legislatures. (Ask people who their state level reps are and most don't know....entire portion of gov run by themeselves with little oversight)

In VA they literally made it illegal for municipal systems to offer service at a cost *below* any existing provider. And, require that municipal system to show financial plans showing profitability in year ONE.

This is why corporations need to go back to having a *purpose* beyond 'making money'. The Hoover Dam was built by a purpose direct corporation call "The Six Companies".

When corp's only purpose is to make themselves money...and are basically immune to penalties like this, it's time to change how they are operated.

and while correlation isn't causation....anything provided by a US provider is *HIGHLY CORRELATED* with being far more expensive for far less service, peak or avg

Yes, but progress is littered with crazy people who go bankrupt. But along the way they build things that get reused and improved for future endeavors.

Assuming they are actually private and want to build something so wildly unlikely to be profitable...we'll use their designs and concepts later when it might be profitable, have at.

Now the safety of having them launch rockets is perhaps a valid concern, but space resource exploitation won't happen from gov't funding for a long long long time. This moves it up even if it doesn't succeed.

Over $10K in campaign donations in 2022? Entirely to Dems.

There are only 3 choices. A party committed to flawed but still democratic system, a party openly calling for autocracy and neither. The third choice is apparently yours. Neither.

Which is one less vote the GOP and Trump need to get to win.

So there only 2 choices. And you seem to be supporting a choice that favors the autocracy under the guise it already exists.

And that attitude pretty well guarantees it will happen.

Dems have faults and no system is remotely perfect. But they *aren't* at all trying to destroy the system of gov't.

The GOP loves people who throw up their hands and say "It's all bad, not worth it". They want you to walk away so they can take over.

Is the US the same as China? Obviously not.

Now ask yourself about a 2nd Trump administration gov't. "Dictator on day one" "Project 2025" are things very very very much in line on moving towards an autocratic system. One that will use our vast government system of powers for *its* desires, not ours.

Now ban TT, have the youth stay home, and that reality becomes eerily likely.

Ban TT before November and you run a very real risk of handing the election to Trump. And frankly all TT has to do is start the viral campaign that Biden will ban TT since he's said he'd sign a ban, and an important but notoriously fickle voting block evaporates.

Whether or not TT is a nat sec threat, that is a far far worse nat sec threat.

TT also had it's growth go *negative* last quarter. It's reached mass saturation. linky

You can always add heat or clothing. Removing cold isn't always an option.

Wet bulb temps can kill at 97-100F. You literally just sit and cook to death. Fans don't help.

and yet, no evidence of your claims.

For anyone reading along linky A pretty biased take trying to defend the 'pipelines' and yet has this buried in it.

The sustained freezing temperatures hampered natural gas primarily in the upstream sector. Upstream producers in the fields struggled with things like frozen wellheads and icy roads that prevented trucks from servicing well sites. Natural gas production in Texas fell from around 21 billion cubic feet of gas to less than 14 billion, and gas moving from more than two dozen West Texas processing plants to pipelines fell by 85%, according to the energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.

As for ERCOT grid ties? They amount to barely 1% of capacity. Source ERCOT itself pdf linky