[stupac2]

Fracking is better than oil?

It's unclear. It basically depends on how much methane is released by the wells, since methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas it could potentially offset the CO2/energy gains of natural gas vs oil/coal (I think in this context WIM meant coal, since afaik power plants don't really use oil derivatives, but I may be wrong).

Anywho, I'm generally optimistic about humanity's ability to muddle through, it's hard to know what our world will look like in 100 years, guessing is mostly pointless. I do find the comments about CA being unlivable because of water to be odd when the vast majority of our water is used by agriculture. People can live here just fine with the water we have if it we weren't farming...

[stupac2]

Fracking is better than oil?

It's unclear. It basically depends on how much methane is released by the wells, since methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas it could potentially offset the CO2/energy gains of natural gas vs oil/coal (I think in this context WIM meant coal, since afaik power plants don't really use oil derivatives, but I may be wrong).

Anywho, I'm generally optimistic about humanity's ability to muddle through, it's hard to know what our world will look like in 100 years, guessing is mostly pointless. I do find the comments about CA being unlivable because of water to be odd when the vast majority of our water is used by agriculture. People can live here just fine with the water we have if it we weren't farming...