Sentences with phrase «entirely by natural gas»

If Palo Verde is replaced entirely by natural gas, carbon emissions in Arizona would increase by the equivalent of adding 2.8 million cars to the road.

Speaking at an energy conference in Tel Aviv, Energy Minister Steinitz said the country's manufacturing and transportation industries will be fueled entirely by natural gas, electricity and alternative fuels within the next 12 years.

Not exact matches

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

The administration will seek to phase out the two coal plants that will be remaining at the end of this year, by converting them to natural gas or shutting them down entirely.

I think the analysis that best captures this effect is the one done by Larry Cathles (see here and here), which concludes that even with 1 percent leakage, on the centennial time scale switching to natural gas gives you 40 percent of the benefit of switching to entirely carbon - free energy.

Solar PV (with associated energy storage costs included) could supply 23 % of global power generation in 2040 and 29 % by 2050, entirely phasing out coal and leaving natural gas with just a 1 % market share.

In comparison, emissions from energy to power an electric Nissan Leaf would cost us $ 840 even if purely powered by coal, and $ 290 if fueled by electricity supplied entirely from natural gas.