All bad ideas, but if there's no electricity because there's
not enough natural gas to power gas fired generating plants that's what will be forced upon us.
For example, the Marcellus Shale in western New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, is thought to
contain enough natural gas to supply the United States for more than 40 years.
That totals about 15 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas escaping into the Boston air —
enough natural gas for more than 286,000 average homes to use during the year.
The incidents occurred in the Marcellus shale gas formation, which is estimated to
hold enough natural gas to meet U.S. demand for a decade or more.
Recent estimates indicate that just 1 percent of Earth's hydrate deposits could
yield enough natural gas to meet American needs for 170,000 years at current rates.
Utilities in New England and the Midwest had trouble
getting enough natural gas and other heating oils to customers, meaning the regions would have suffered from brownouts or even blackouts if coal power did not come online to pick up the slack.
So California
needs enough natural gas capacity to supply the evening peak, but for most of the midday, it doesn't need any of it.
«BP's proposed terminal would send
out enough natural gas to meet the daily energy needs of about 5 million homes.
It
uses enough natural gas to heat three million houses, and even oil analysts consider the use of a clean fuel to make a dirty one poor alchemy, its «turning gold into lead»
New techniques promised to unlock huge reserves of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation deep underground beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio said to
contain enough natural gas to supply the East Coast for up to 50 years.
Because there's
not enough natural gas to power the generators that are supposed to replace some of Indian Point's capacity, expect electric rates to go through the roof.
By most estimates, there's
enough natural gas to produce about 1.6 trillion barrels of oil.
The United States now produces about as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia does, and
enough natural gas to export in large quantities.
We have
enough natural gas to cut CO2 emissions by over 50 % «overnight» -LCB- without using -RCB- renewables (by replacing coal)!
Are you saying we don't have
enough natural gas, coal, or oil to burn?