Sentences with phrase «as a bridge fuel»

«The large GHG footprint of shale gas undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over coming decades, if the goal is to reduce global warming.»

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

Thus, although fugitive methane emissions reduce the short - term emissions benefit of coal - to - gas switching --- and should be addressed for that reason — they do not limit natural gas's potential as a bridge fuel to a low carbon future.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

[N] one of this, in my view, undercuts the importance of natural gas as a bridge fuel on the path to a lower - carbon, and more secure, energy menu as humanity sprints toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

Its only hope for salvation is the new Cuomo administration policy that would effectively use nuclear as a bridge fuel while the state expands its renewable industry.

«While we know that gas can play a small part as a bridging fuel as to move to greener sources, the government's decision to sign off upwards of 30GW of new gas simply flies in the face of warnings about the consequences of a «dash for gas» on both consumer bills and legally binding climate targets»

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

Next month, in his State of the State address, Cuomo plans to introduce a new policy to create incentives for utilities to buy nuclear power as a bridge fuel until the state can reach its goal of renewables powering half the electric grid by 2030.

Natural gas's impact as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future has been oversold, new research suggests

The real argument against over-reliance on fracking as a solution to the climate problem is that its value as a bridge fuel has been oversold, as noted in Michael Levi's analysis.

The coal industry acknowledges that developing carbon capture and storage technology is imperative for the survival of their industry as a bridge fuel, but many major players continue to duck behind these trumped up charges while avoiding serious discussion of the environmental impacts of burning coal.

George: This is from Reason (with all the caveats that implies), but it does point to several articles by environmentalists who saw NG as a bridge fuel:

Since the Reagan era, when the American Gas Association first began touting its product as a bridge fuel, this idea has established itself among many of the world's leading energy experts.

To put a nail in natural gas as bridge fuel away from coal, here's Myhrvold on the effect of rapidly replacing coal with natural gas on temperatures over the next 100 years:

To those wealthy, developed producers that have mastered a particular expertise in oxymorons (clean coal, oil pipelines to support climate action, natural gas as a bridge fuel etc...), ECO's message is simple: In with the good and out with the bad.

So, although methane leakage reduces the short - term emissions benefit of switching from coal to gas — and should be addressed for that reason — it does not limit natural gas's potential as a bridge fuel to a low - carbon future.

But none of this, in my view, undercuts the importance of natural gas as a bridge fuel on the path to a lower - carbon, and more secure, energy menu as humanity sprints toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

The issue was well known but little studied: methane does not hang around in the atmosphere for long, so scientists had assumed that the odd leak would not undermine its use as a bridge fuel.

We tend to think of gas as a bridge fuel to a lower emission future, but I think we'll increasingly hear it called a «foundation fuel,» as Mr. Durbin did.

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

The IPCC in its Working Group III report says natural gas as a bridge fuel will only be effective if few gases escape into the atmosphere during natural gas production and distribution.

Our study does not address how the magnitude of the source types that we present translate into an overall climate impact for natural gas vs. other fuel types, nor does it address implications for natural gas as a bridge fuel.

Another energy myth promoted by the Obama administration and the fossil fuel industry is natural gas as a bridge fuel to renewable energy.

And the methane issues with natural gas completely preclude talking about natural gas as a bridge fuel.

The issue was well known but little studied: methane does not hang around in the atmosphere for long, so scientists had assumed that the odd leak would not undermine its use as a bridge fuel.

Whatever the merit of the argument for natural gas as a bridge fuel may be (never quite decided myself), that bridge is a lot more frayed now than when people started making the argument a decade or so ago.

G20 governments — or at least the G19, without the United States — have an opportunity to truly commit themselves to a clean energy future, and to support Argentina on a course for managed decline, but it will mean ending the narrative of natural gas as a bridge fuel.