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>Natural gas emits 50 to 60 percent less carbon dioxide

You're comparing the absolute best natural gas plant to the average coal plant? The source also isn't neutral.

>Finally I checked renewables for South Australia and they seems to be doing really great

At the expense of the poor and minorities, which I guess are acceptable collateral damage in this crusade. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6920209/

Are you just generally writing about green energy, or about the Telsa battery (the subject of this discussion)? As the ancestor comment noted, the battery saved money, and saving money doesn't increase costs.

>You're comparing the absolute best natural gas plant to the average coal plant? The source also isn't neutral.

Source claims comparison is for new plants in both directions. Concur it is likely not neutral, do you have a better one?

> At the expense of the poor and minorities, which I guess are acceptable collateral damage in this crusade. [1]

Disproportional impact of higher energy prices is absolutely a factor... What I do not get is how much better South Australia could have done?

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