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youngestalma t1_iwzv322 wrote

The long term solution is not more fossil fuel infrastructure that will quickly become sunk costs that we will all pay for, but rather accelerating efficiency/conservation, offshore wind, solar, nuclear, and transmission lines from Canada for more hydro. That is a long term solution with virtually no fuel cost volatility which will make it cheaper than continuing to rely on high cost gas resources.

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[deleted] t1_iwzwrb8 wrote

This whole post is the problem that we face on a daily basis: total disregard for long term sustainability and cost. Everyone looks at the short term problems and looks for short term solutions (pension funds, twitter, basically any company cutting headcount right now). We need to be working towards long term stability. Is it painful right now? Absolutely. Eversource should be cutting into their profits if it is this bad.

Fossil fuel infrastructure is expensive AF to maintain. Nuclear is not hugely different but is a better stop gap towards fully renewable energy generation. There are problems with waste disposal BUT if it is used as a filler while the 15-20 year plans are worked out, then fine.

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Myotherside t1_ix3n3pb wrote

Considering the billion dollars in extra money we are spending, it seems like we could have our own dedicated LNG tanker/local storage facility that does nothing but transport gas from TX/LA export terminals straight to us.

But that wouldn’t provide a long term infrastructure advantage for oil companies to use to prevent competition from renewables, so we know where that idea will go.

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mynameisnotshamus OP t1_iwzyw0j wrote

You kinda need to work on both simultaneously though. Near term and future.

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youngestalma t1_ix0dinu wrote

Yeah but building a pipeline for more gas is going to take longer than anything on my list except maybe new nuclear. It’s not like we can increase gas supply in the next few years outside of more LNG imports which is a big part of the problem right now.

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UnfairAd7220 t1_ix2cytu wrote

Take the Iroquois line. Now...

Let NY figure it out.

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1Enthusiast t1_iwzvzfg wrote

It won’t matter if we all freeze to death because of a complete lack of another viable solution today 😂

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