Sentences with phrase «cheap natural gas makes»

Pipkin is a critic of Gov. Martin O'Malley's push to develop wind farms off the state's coast, arguing that cheap natural gas makes such ambitious projects unnecessary.

Cheap natural gas makes one efficiency measure so cheap that it is being deployed as rapidly as engineers can write the project specs and bid document: cogen installations.

This could, of course, partly be due to the cheap natural gas made available by fracking.

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.

Many utilities can generate power using either coal or natural gas, so if the latter's price gets cheap enough — typically below $ 4.50 per MCF — power companies will make the switch.

The coal industry is seeing huge declines as cheaper renewables, cheaper natural gas, and greater air pollution controls make it less attractive as a fuel, this is a long term trend that has recently accelerated and reached crisis proportions.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

Today the cheapest way to make H2 is in a chemical plant that breaks down natural gas.

If they do, it may one day make it cheaper to derive commodity chemicals and fuels from natural gas than from petroleum.

How do you make mirror - concentrated sunlight cheaper than burning natural gas?

The cheap hydrocarbon is made using petroleum and natural gas, and the way it is produced emits more carbon dioxide than any other chemical process.

«Cheap natural gas, the rapid decline in the cost of solar and wind generation, and continued flat electricity demand make it next to impossible that U.S. coal production will significantly increase in coming years.»

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

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The lower carbon dioxide emissions and cheaper fuel costs make natural gas an attractive alternative to petrol and diesel, both ecologically and economically speaking.

4 How will the abundance of cheap Natural Gas be used between the competing interests of Big Oil (Export) and Big Chemical (Use internally to make cheap chemicals)?

Subsidies were biggest in Russia, with about $ 40 billion a year spent mainly on making natural gas cheaper, ahead of Iran with $ 37 billion.

I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about hydrogen cars too; the fossil fuel companies might well fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.

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.

The assumption undergirding EP's analysis was that cheap natural gas, heavily - subsidized solar and wind, and flattening electricity demand, make nuclear plants less economical everywhere, not just in deregulated markets.

And, Kelley pointed out, though shale gas deposits are making natural gas cheap right now, «nobody expects that to last, not even the people in the natural gas industry.»

We (and others) have voiced concerns that taxing natural gas, but not taxing coal, could make coal a relatively cheaper source of electricity despite its heavier carbon footprint.

And if natural gas makes energy cheaper, the study argues, people will use more energy rather than cut back to save money.

First, more than thirty years of government funding for unconventional gas research, demonstration, and tax credits have contributed to a glut of cheap natural gas, making everything from solar to wind to nuclear uncompetitive, at least in the near - term, while also driving America's shift from coal to gas.

Low - cost natural gas is making gas - fired power plants cheaper and more competitive to operate, causing less cost - competitive coal and nuclear to retire.

It takes six decades between the time the decision is made to go with a particular energy generation form and the time it's end of life; committing to coal or natural gas right now, today, is the less economical choice, and fiscally irresponsible, because by the time the plant is built, there will be a 50:1 ratio of cheaper solar / wind / hydro / geothermal / wave years of service committed to.

This new government data is also just the latest evidence that the U.S. is leading the industrialized world in carbon reductions thanks to cheap and abundant natural gas made possible by fracking.

Furthermore, the IEA report makes it clear that abundant cheap natural gas could push renewables out of the market unless there is a price on carbon or aggressive economic support for non-fossil renewable energy.

In the context of the US, this trend has been magnified by a preponderance of cheap natural gas, which has made coal an increasingly superfluous fuel to generate power.

Suppose further that because of resource depletion and technological change including cheap fracked gas, the coal - miner's job is ultimately unsustainable; in contrast, the farmer's job was sustainable if very difficult in the face of natural weather events, but is being made ultimately unsustainable by the additional stress from climate change.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

It could make it easier to get currently very cheap Marcellus / Utica gas into the center of the country and perhaps even increase overall natural gas output.

Asked whether nuclear can compete with today's remarkably cheap natural gas, Morris said the fuel cost is not what makes natural gas attractive.

Most importantly, this scenario pre-dates the fracking revolution that has flipped the use of coal and natural gas in the United States by making natural gas so cheap and plentiful.

And since fracking makes natural gas cheaper, it helps stimulate a switch from coal to gas.

So when you make natural gas cheaper, there's a net benefit from the one - third of it that squeezes out coal but a net loss from the two - thirds that simply represents higher consumption of natural gas.

GreatPoint Energy developed the most efficient process for making substitute natural gas from cheap coal 5 years ago.

Accio believes that the systems can achieve unsubsidized cost parity with coal and natural gas, which would make offshore wind generation with EHD the cheapest energy option for most of the world.

Natural gas prices are at a 7 - year low, it generates less emissions than coal, and we happen to be in the middle of trying to reform our energy policies to make them cheaper and less polluting.

That is a no regrets approach — especially if building nuclear power plants can be made as cheap or cheaper than mining coal and transporting it to the plants to burn it (or oil or natural gas).

So, on top of retrofitting old alarms, you can buy a Roost Smart Smoke Alarm that can detect CO, all types of smoke (Roost uses a modified ionization sensor, called IoPhic, made by Universal Security Instruments), and natural gas, or you can get a cheaper smoke - only alarm.