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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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The Problem with Turquoise Hydrogen made from Fossil Gas (industrydecarbonization.com)
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[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, if it's being made with surplus power from renewables it's great, basically a gaseous battery, but otherwise it's just fossil fuels with extra steps.

[–] nous@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

And every extra step adds more losses and reduces the efficiency. So it is worst then just using the fossil fuels directly.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surplus power from anything. Existing base load power plants have periods of reduced use and do not adjust rapidly to change in load. Might as well harvest that as well. I think it is often utilized by heavy industry currently, for smelting plants and the like.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

If we continue investing in wind and solar, at a certain point it will be an almost daily issue to have more power than is needed. If some of the excess could be turned into hydrogen it could be huge for decarbonizing transportation.