Sentences with phrase «burning more natural gas»

In the past, the drop in hydropower has been largely made up by burning more natural gas, costing Californians billions of dollars in added energy costs and generating more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

We are producing and burning more natural gas for electricity, while reducing coal use.

Burning more natural gas leads to higher, not lower, emissions.

Burning more natural gas might also mean more greenhouse gas emissions causing more global warming

Not exact matches

The primary cause has been competition from cleaner - burning natural gas, which has been made cheaper and more abundant by hydraulic fracturing.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrouGas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrougas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Demand for natural gas is on the rise as more domestic power plants burn the fuel and a number of liquefied natural gas export terminals are slated to open in the coming years.

Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than coal and can reduce dependence on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.

If nuclear power suddenly goes away in New York, we will be burning a lot more natural gas.

It's the type of litigation that legal experts say may become more common as coastal cities and waterlogged counties draw the connection between rising waters and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

The market liberalization means that Mexican power producers could more easily buy cleaner, cheaper natural gas from abroad instead of burning domestic oil.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

Much of that comes from power plants that burn coal or natural gas — emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, even more than was captured.

Fuels derived from natural gas burn more cleanly than those derived from crude oil because they don't contain components like nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon arranged in rings, which are notorious air pollutants.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

According to Viktor Zhukov, scientists are able to accurately simulate the burning of simple gas mixtures, for example, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, and it is far more difficult to simulate the burning of more complex fuels, including jet fuel.

Natural gas is often touted as more sustainable than coal and oil because it releases fewer pollutants when it burns.

The project is testing three approaches: wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced from waste; and solar cookers.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Thanks to a bonanza of natural gas liberated from deep shales by new techniques, the U.S. is burning more and more of the fuel — and considering using more natural gas in more places, such as fuel for trucking.

Natural gas is cleaner - burning than gasoline, and today there are more than 150,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U.S., most of them trucks andNatural gas is cleaner - burning than gasoline, and today there are more than 150,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U.S., most of them trucks andnatural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U.S., most of them trucks and buses.

The relatively low growth is linked to both the adoption of more fuel - efficient vehicles and the replacement of coal - powered electricity with renewable energy sources and relatively cleaner - burning natural gas.

Eighty - five percent of those CO2 emissions come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, which are providing more than 80 % of the world's energy; most of the rest coming from deforestation.

More methane than previously thought may have been released into the atmosphere from fracking and burning natural gas, according to new research from Cornell University.

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

Last year, more than 150 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle produced legislation providing incentives to use clean - burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil.

I add, that as far as air conditioning goes, it would not help much for my house since I mostly open windows to accomplish that, and in the winter it would cause me to burn slightly more natural gas for heating.

You could also get hydrogen from natural gas (which would be more efficient than burning gasoline from a CO2 perspective, though that's assuming fuel cells are affordable), but you're back to having a fossil fuel problem (not to mention the national security problems this could cause to many countries, making them even more dependent on natural gas producers).

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.

Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plants.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

While natural gas releases half the carbon dioxide of coal when it is burned, it is made up of 80 percent methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat 86 times more effectively than CO2 over a 20 - year span.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

With much of the Middle Atlantic braced for «Snowzilla,» the Obama administration announced a new layer of federal regulation that likely will make it more difficult and costly for energy producers to deliver the affordable, reliable, clean - burning natural gas that so many U.S. consumers rely on for winter warmth.

The United States in 2040 will be more energy self - sufficient, a net energy exporter and a lower source of energy - related carbon emissions as clean - burning natural gas becomes the dominant fuel for generating electricity.

With natural gas we're burning more hydrogen compared to coal.

In heating, natural gas boilers can have positive short - term effects by substituting for burning oil, but these investments are meant to last for 30 or more years.

Last year the Energy Information Administration noted that the «decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.»

While Dominion and all its spider legs may think that burning more gas is a great idea, the reality is, natural gas increasingly looks less like a long - term energy solution and more like a trap for companies that made the wrong bet.

Young Indians (74 %) are more likely to favor curtailing the burning of petroleum and natural gas than are their elders (64 %).

Humans are now burning more than 1 million tons of coal, oil, and natural gas every hour.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

That meant coal burned in newer supercritical plants, natural gas, nuclear, tire burning, and existing 50 - year - old hydroelectric plants all counted — and they already made up more than two - thirds of supply.

If we continue with business as usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, the global average temperature is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.

This is because power prices often reflect the operating costs of marginal natural gas generators, and natural gas fuel prices are keenly sensitive to winter weather (colder temperatures mean more gas burned for space heating).

Natural gas is often advertised as a more sustainable energy source than coal, given that it releases fewer pollutants when it burns.

It deals with pipelines within the state that would connect customers who currently don't have access to natural gas for heating and cooking (a more efficient use of energy than burning gas for electricity to perform the same functions).

It details how much carbon dioxide countries have spewed in the atmosphere from burning coal, oil and natural gas so far, and how much more they can «spend» before crossing the 2 - degree threshold.