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Assertion Contradicted
Lubershain: Home Gas Appliances With Upstream Leaks Are Worse Than Coal
“If you are to burn natural gas in in an appliance in a home, for example, like a home boiler or in, in, in an oven And you take that two and a half percent leak rate upstream as a given, then it's actually even a little bit worse in the next 20 years from a gl…”
Andy Lubershane Dec 9, 2021 ▶ 8:24 The future of natural gas
Assertion Contradicted
Lubbershane: DOE Counts Over 100 GW in Notional Green Hydrogen Pipeline
“The DOE right now counts well over basically a hundred gigawatts worth of sort of notional green hydrogen project pipeline out there”
Andy Lubershane Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 21:37 Navigating the electricity gauntlet
Assertion Contradicted
Lubershain: Midwest heat pump adoption rose from 5% to 20%
“Back in 2000, you know, at the turn of the century, heat pump adoption, you know, in or, you know, for new, new heating systems in, say, the U.S. Midwest, relatively cold climate area, was at about five percent. And by the late aughts, you know, 2009, 20 10, i…”
Andy Lubershane Nov 10, 2022 ▶ 21:22 Unleashing the magic of heat pumps
Assertion Contradicted
Lubershane: Global nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer use nearly doubled since 1984
“The amount of fertilizer we use in both nitrogen fertilizer and phosphate-based fertilizer has increased by about that same percentage. So it's about doubled not quite over that period.”
Andy Lubershane Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 34:00 Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access
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