What a surprise. I personally think burning natural gas in CTs is very stupid. The fuel has much higher energy value in home heating, commercial heating and cooling and as a feedstock for many processes. We can use nuclear and coal to make electricity just fine. Put the fuel to work where it makes most sense. We wouldn’t be firing NG in CTCCs if it weren’t for the extreme greenie weenies (no sulfur, high thermal efficiency, low carbon). Wasting precious NG on making power is criminally insane.
Wouldn't worry about wasting much NG. Bus bar costs are too high due to fuel price. Pretty much used in peakers now. NG makes lots of CO2 when burned, an inconvenient fact for the greenies. Now, the CO2 "crisis" is a scam so let's don't worry about that. Oil is the best energy storage medium for commercial use we have. We have plenty of oil. We can convert coal to oil presently for about $60/bbl. We can bury the bast@rds in the ME with this. Our energy crisis is politically contrived hogwash. How about we use some energy and tar and feather our enslavers in DC?