Sentences with phrase «expanded use of natural gas»

And while expanded use of natural gas can provided a valuable bridge toward non-polluting energy choices, according to many experts, those darned pipelines have found strident opposition, backyard by backyard, particularly in crowded regions of the country.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

The White House and their eco-allies fear that expanding use of natural gas, in particular, will exacerbate global warming as methane is more than 80 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

While this unprecedented shift does provide some near - term benefits, dramatically expanding our use of natural gas to generate electricity is an ill - advised gamble that poses complex economic, public health, and climate risks.

Not to mention the increasing body of research, from both academics and intergovernmental agencies, such as the International Energy Agency, shows that expanding the use of natural gas will do nothing to prevent climate change, and that natural gas obtained by fracking has radically higher greenhouse gas emissions than gas obtained through conventional methods.

Not exact matches

In other words, to get away from fossil fuels requires not just expanding alternatives but also discouraging the use of coal, oil and natural gas.

The expanded use of drilling technology to extract resources trapped in tight formations 8,000 feet underground has opened the door to trillions of cubic feet of new natural gas reserves.

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

Here's a quick review of developments related to the fast - expanding extraction of natural gas using hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking, that point to a route forward amid concerns about everything from earthquakes to water pollution.

We've got to expand nuclear; we've got to do clean coal, we've got to expand the use of hybrid vehicles, wind, solar, hydroelectric, liquid natural gas, natural gas, domestic oil, more refineries....

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen simultaneously, in large part due to industry's commitment to environmental protection and the expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

Domestic U.S. oil and natural gas companies are pioneers in developing alternatives and expanding America's use of virtually every form of energy — from geothermal to wind, from solar to biofuels, from hydrogen power to the lithium ion battery for next - generation cars.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen, in large part due to expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a new analysis, which shows that instead of aggressive over-reliance on natural gas by utilities as they phase out coal plants, a far better bet for achieving a clean energy future is to greatly expand the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

But the scientific report in Nature Climate Change suggests that under the «business as usual scenario» − whereby no steps are taken to address climate change, and the expanding the use of coal, oil and natural gas dumps ever greater quantities carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then such conditions could occur once every decade or so before 2100.

Published in Nature, an analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current supply of cheap natural gas would not slow the long - term growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

[44] Drilling expanded greatly in the past several years due to higher natural gas prices and use of horizontal wells to increase production.

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