Sentences with phrase «easily run on natural gas»

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Until recently, many thought the West was running out of gas — most of the easily accessible natural gas finds were being depleted, making the West reliant on ever more distant, ever more difficult reserves to exploit.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

If AGW is proved to be a problem and it is far from proven that it is, and if you guys were fair dinkum about reducing green house emissions, then Australia with hundreds of years of natural gas reserves could easily convert nearly everything to run on that and cut GH emissions by 90 % with very little economic pain.