Sentences with phrase «ever cheaper natural gas»
And with ever cheaper natural gas widely available now, paying a premium for ethanol or biodiesel seemed frivolous.
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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.
Firstly, it is difficult to imagine how the cost of a coal or natural gas plant with CCS can ever be short - sighted cheaper (external costs externalized) than a similar plant without CCS.