Additional carbon is released from
the combustion of natural gas during oil recovery from the extracted bitumen.»
1Coal combustion emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as does
the combustion of natural gas, whereas the amount from crude oil combustion falls between coal and natural gas, according to Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1985 - 1990, DOE / EIA -0573 (Washington, DC, September 1993), p. 16.
Analysis of fiscal year 2013 municipal greenhouse gas emissions shows that over 57 % of municipal greenhouse gas emissions are from
the combustion of natural gas.
Even more concerning is that the extraction, distribution, and
combustion of natural gas result in the leakage of methane, a powerful global warming gas 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period.
Although a fossil fuel,
combustion of natural gas emits only 45 % as much carbon dioxide as combustion of coal, and hydroelectric is of course a very low - carbon energy source.
The combustion of natural gas emits almost 30 % less carbon dioxide than oil, and just under 45 % less carbon dioxide than coal.
; and that «the benefits of cleaner, more efficient
combustion of natural gas are largely offset by methane leakage in U.S. production and pipelines and by methane leaks and energy used in the process of liquefying and transporting the LNG.»
«(C) for a natural gas local distribution company described in paragraph (13)(J), greenhouse gases that would be emitted from
the combustion of the natural gas, and any other gas meeting the specifications for commingling with natural gas for purposes of delivery, that such entity delivered during that calendar year to customers that are not covered entities, assuming no capture and sequestration of that greenhouse gas.
But since the late 1980s, the predominant fear has been global warming, or, more precisely, the enhanced greenhouse effect from the production and
combustion of natural gas, coal, and oil.
The Pacific Institute has just completed and released a report that evaluates how diminished river flows have resulted in less hydroelectricity, more expensive electricity from
the combustion of natural gas, and increased
-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(J), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas that would be emitted from
the combustion of the natural gas, and any other gas meeting the specifications for commingling with natural gas for purposes of delivery, that such entity delivered during the previous calendar year to customers that are not covered entities, assuming no capture and sequestration of that greenhouse gas.
Not exact matches
At $ 100 a barrel, prudent development
of U.S. reserves could cut imports in half, and coupled with better use
of abundant
natural gas and wiser application
of now available internal
combustion technologies, the United States could become an energy exporter.
At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for
combustion instead
of the
natural gas.
Second, analysis
of isotopes, which can distinguish among sources
of emissions, demonstrates that the majority
of the increase in carbon dioxide comes from
combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil and
natural gas).
In a modeling study
of coal, oil, and
natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by
combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance
of burning, such as one lump
of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.
With this kind
of steady continuous
combustion, it takes 95 days using coal, 124 days using oil, and 161 days using
natural gas.
These
gases come from human activities such as
combustion of coal and oil as well as
natural sources such as emissions from plants.
In the «business as usual» scenario, the auto industry followed its current rate
of vehicle diversification — utilizing efficient internal
combustion, electric and hybrid models, and the power sector utilized mostly
natural gas and renewable plants.
«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later,
of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke,
natural gas liquid, or
natural gas as a feedstock, if allowances or offset credits were retired for the greenhouse
gases that would have been emitted from their
combustion; and
Natural gas is a fossil fuel — like oil and coal — and it does produce carbon dioxide as a result
of the
combustion process.
Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit
of weight with half the carbon footprint during
combustion.
That project would include the closure
of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction
of about 752 MW
of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW
combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).
... [I] t seems especially pertinent for this committee to consider the water budget
of energy from shale
gas compared with other sources...
Natural gas, from both shale
gas and conventional reservoirs requires less water per MMBtu
of energy generated from
combustion than any other common fuel.
Climate change is driven by human activity — chiefly the
combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use — and forests and other
natural ecosystems play a powerful role in both soaking up the greenhouse
gases released by human economic activity and at the same time sheltering many
of the other 10 million or so species that share the planet.
The NRDC cites the «2016 State
of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant
natural gas - fired combined cycle plants,
combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»
If the U.S. were instead to use that
natural gas to generate electricity as part
of a portfolio with renewable sources
of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency
natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in
natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning
natural gas in its
combustion engines — roughly a decrease in
natural gas usage
of 19 billion cubic feet per day.
Requires reporting entities to submit to the Administration data on: (1) GHG emissions in the United States, (2) the production, manufacture, and importation
of fuels and products that lead to GHG emissions, (3) deliveries
of natural gas the
combustion of which results in GHG emissions; and (4) the capture and sequestration
of GHGs.
Natural gas combustion for electricity emits only half
of the carbon pollution compared to coal
combustion.
Even if
natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit
of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope
of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.
These include pulverised coal
combustion (PCC) with both subcritical and supercritical (the latter involving very high steam pressure and temperature) cycles, a
natural gas - fired combined cycle plant, and a review
of current and future applications
of coal - fuelled integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants.
In addition if coal
combustion were to be replaced now by non-fossil fuel energy, it would help immediately much more than conversion
of coal to
natural gas combustion does in putting the world on an urgently needed ghg emissions reduction pathway needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
This paper revealed for the first time the observing increased
of the atmospheric CO2 as the result
of the
combustion of carbon, petroleum and
natural gas.
The US
natural gas industry has often argued that a switch to
natural gas will significantly reduce ghg emissions from the electricity sector because
natural gas emits almost 50 % less CO2 per unit
of energy produced than coal
combustion.
Further scientific analysis may reveal that methane leakage rates may be small enough to provide climate change emissions reduction benefits when coal
combustion of electricity production is replaced by
natural gas combustion.
Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and
natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete
combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much
of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.
For this reason, any reliance on
natural gas combustion as a method
of reducing CO2 emissions must provide for ramped up commitments to non-fossil fuel sources
of energy at levels needed to prevent dangerous climate change.
To understand why
natural gas combustion in the electricity sector is not likely be an adequate solution to climate change in the long - term, it is necessary to understand the scale
of the problem facing the world.
Given that the United States has strong ethical responsibilities to rapidly reduce its carbon footprint, a matter examined extensively in Ethicsandclimate.org, one might initially conclude that as a matter
of ethics switching to
natural gas from coal
combustion is ethically justifiable as a short - term strategy.
(IEA, 2012) Even if
natural gas combustion creates a 50 percent less CO2 per unit
of energy produced, an amount which is beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not produce the greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years necessary to give any hope
of restricting warming to potentially catastrophic levels.
The following chart shows the amount
of pollutants including CO2 from
natural gas, oil, and coal
combustion.
Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct
Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or d
Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative
of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile
natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or d
natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and
Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or d
Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few
of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then
natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or d
natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case
of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a
combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive
of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion
of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side
of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top
of the stroke kicking what's left
of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat
of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.
In conclusion, we have identified strong ethical arguments that support the need to ramp up non-fossil fuel
combustion in the United States and other developed countries while implicitly acknowledging that there could be some short - term benefit if coal
combustion is replaced by
natural gas, a conclusion that only can be reached with better understanding
of the methane leakage issues.
Carbon
combustion generated 80 %
of someone's energy, but it sure as heck doesn't constitute much
of the energy
of people who can take advantage
of cheaper geothermal, hydro or
natural gas (which is largely hydrogen
combustion); and as the price
of solar and wind plummet and the practicality
of extracting fossil other than
gas drops like a stone in lock step with the advances
of competing technologies, what sort
of backwards knuckle - dragger actually wants the choking and fumes and leaks and inconvenience and dust and soot and sulfates?
«The [latest models
of]
natural gas combustion turbines that would be purchased to provide capacity have a levelized cost
of energy
of $ 0.194 / kWh and run 20 %
of the year, according to the 2014 Tucson Electric Power IRP,» Lon Huber, a consultant for the Arizona consumer advocate, told Utility Dive.
Uranium fission provides reliable heat from reactions that are six orders
of magnitude (powers
of ten) more energy dense than the
combustion reactions used to produce energy from coal, oil and
natural gas.
That has come courtesy
of its association with conventional
natural gas - which produces much less CO2 on
combustion than coal and oil, and which is often touted as a «clean» fuel.
«The [latest models
of]
natural gas combustion turbines that would be purchased to provide capacity have a levelized cost
of energy
of $ 0.194 / kWh and run 20 %
of the year,
But a
natural cycle
of change in the North Atlantic may for the time being have countered the consequences
of human
combustion of fossil fuels, the rise
of greenhouse
gases and other impacts in the Arctic.
At the heart
of both studies is a deeper concern about the response
of the
natural world to human - induced change, in the destruction
of habitat, the loss
of the plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels
of greenhouse
gases, as a consequence
of profligate
combustion of fossil fuels.
A conventional
natural gas combustion turbine
of the required size might require approximately $ 195 million in overnight capital costs (given the cost assumptions used in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook).