Sentences with phrase «footprint of natural gas»

Here's the pre-publication version of the study: Methane and the Greenhouse - Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations

[xvi] RW Howarth, Santoro, R & Ingraffea, A, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations», Climate Change, 2011, viewed 14 September 2012, http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/Howarth et al 2011.

Robert Howarth's study, «A Bridge to Nowhere: Methane Emissions and the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Natural Gas,» published May 20, 2014 in the journal Energy Science and Engineering, gave the methane scare a much - needed boost.

In these terms, the actual footprint of natural gas is actually larger than the footprint of coal.

Howarth's study, «A Bridge to Nowhere: Methane Emissions and the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Natural Gas,» will be published May 20 in the journal Energy Science and Engineering.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

However, when used for domestic heating of water, the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas is at least two - times larger than that of using modern electric - driven heat pumps.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Not exact matches

Insofar as it replaces carbon - intensive coal and oil power, natural gas is a huge gain in cutting the country's carbon footprint, all while creating new jobs and bringing power to isolated parts of the country.

Most hydrogen fuel is derived from natural gas in a process that releases plenty of carbon dioxide, so the car and its 134 - horsepower electric motor fall short of being footprint - free.

This simple switch could pave the way toward a more environmentally friendly method of extracting natural gas that would do less collateral damage to the land and water while dramatically reducing fracking's carbon footprint at the same time.

Many current energy debates have focused on the massive carbon footprint of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas.

However, natural gas has a number of advantages over the other main fossil fuels that give it the potential to substantially reduce our carbon footprint.

AGL Acquisition — Expected to Close in Late 2016 Southern's business and geographical footprint will significantly change after it closes its acquisition of natural gas utility AGL Resources (AGL).

The typical family's carbon footprint is only about 1/4 to 1/3 due to it's direct use of electricity, natural gas and petroleum — the rest comes from all the stuff we buy (including that which is bought for us, like roads and airports).

Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit of weight with half the carbon footprint during combustion.

Another course participant, Matt Briggs, who is a wild mushroom seller and Near - Net - Zero Retrofit house owner and the writer, director, and producer of the documentary Deep Green - Solutions to Stop Global Warming Now «was waiting for the affordable Model 3 to plug into my 10kw solar roof so I can finally almost eliminate my carbon footprint for coal electricity, natural gas heat, and now oil transport.»

The report ends with pages and pages of data on their footprint; the reductions in electricity use and natural gas saved are extraordinary.

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

I also consider hat natural gas driven power plants would have a better environmental footprint than that of coal, especially brown coal.

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.

The Energy Footprint: How Oil, Natural Gas, and Wind Energy Affect Land for Biodiversity and the Flow of Ecosystem Services.

In November 2016, Bullfrog Power and TD Bank Group launched a first - of - a-kind renewable energy collaboration, encompassing the full suite of Bullfrog's renewable energy products — green electricity, green natural gas and green fuel — to address 100 per cent of TD's energy footprint for its Vancouver branches and a portion of its business - related travel in Vancouver.

We (and others) have voiced concerns that taxing natural gas, but not taxing coal, could make coal a relatively cheaper source of electricity despite its heavier carbon footprint.

They calculated the full - cycle land use required to generate 1 megawatt of electricity from each source of energy in 2015, including the land required to drill and mine for natural gas and coal, the processing and transportation requirements and the power plant footprint.

Robert Howarth is his colleague at Cornell, an ecologist who produced one of the most controversial scientific studies of the year: a paper arguing that natural gas produced by fracking may actually have a bigger greenhouse gas footprint than coal.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

The first step for Manitoba Harvest in becoming carbon neutral was figuring out their carbon footprint — which is the impact one has on the environment as a result of using electricity and natural gas.

Given that the United States has strong ethical responsibilities to rapidly reduce its carbon footprint, a matter examined extensively in Ethicsandclimate.org, one might initially conclude that as a matter of ethics switching to natural gas from coal combustion is ethically justifiable as a short - term strategy.

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

«Through our renewed partnership with Bullfrog Power, we're taking into account more of our emissions footprint with green natural gas and are now bullfrogpowering our Richmond Hill and Vancouver locations.»

Thanks to improved efficiency, the economic crisis and the fracking - fueled boom of natural gas, which has a smaller carbon footprint than coal, the United States has already seen a 15 percent reduction in electricity sector - generated CO2 emissions since 2005.

TreeHugger: With entire economies based on selling oil and natural gas to fund massive, rapid growth and a per capita ecological footprint larger than the United States, the United Arab Emirates is currently one of the most unsustainable places in the world.

The production of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from organic waste for use as a vehicle fuel is an emerging strategy that businesses, states, and municipalities in the United States are pursuing to make use of waste - derived methane and lower the carbon footprint of vehicle fleets.

Four new incinerators will consume a great deal of natural gas, and will increase the carbon footprint of Naples.