Sentences with phrase «gas as a bridge fuel»

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

Our study does not address how the magnitude of the source types that we present translate into an overall climate impact for natural gas vs. other fuel types, nor does it address implications for natural gas as a bridge fuel.

But none of this, in my view, undercuts the importance of natural gas as a bridge fuel on the path to a lower - carbon, and more secure, energy menu as humanity sprints toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

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.

What do these leakage rates mean for the viability of natural gas as a bridge fuel?

And the methane issues with natural gas completely preclude talking about natural gas as a bridge fuel.

Whatever the merit of the argument for natural gas as a bridge fuel may be (never quite decided myself), that bridge is a lot more frayed now than when people started making the argument a decade or so ago.

To put a nail in natural gas as bridge fuel away from coal, here's Myhrvold on the effect of rapidly replacing coal with natural gas on temperatures over the next 100 years:

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

To those wealthy, developed producers that have mastered a particular expertise in oxymorons (clean coal, oil pipelines to support climate action, natural gas as a bridge fuel etc...), ECO's message is simple: In with the good and out with the bad.

Not exact matches

«While we know that gas can play a small part as a bridging fuel as to move to greener sources, the government's decision to sign off upwards of 30GW of new gas simply flies in the face of warnings about the consequences of a «dash for gas» on both consumer bills and legally binding climate targets»

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

«This is about «bridge energy»,» Fahy said, referring to the transitional or intermittent use of fossil fuels such as natural gas to reach renewable energy goals.

The fracking ban demand convinced the many environmentalists to support a ban rather than their positions at that time of promoting fracked gas as the «bridge fuel» to renewable energy or calling for a moratorium while fracking was studied.

Natural gas's impact as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future has been oversold, new research suggests

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Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

In a warming world, natural gas is often touted as a «bridge fuel» between carbon - laden coal and a full embrace of renewables for electric power generation.

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Some scientists, including Cornell University environmental biologist Robert Howarth, have questioned natural gas's use as a «bridge fuel» because producing the gas, most of which is released from underground shale formations through hydraulic fracturing, often emits a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Using this new information as well as other independent studies on methane emissions published since 2011, and the latest information on the climate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridge fuel.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

In addition, the popularity of natural gas relies, in part, on its reputation as a «bridge fuel» — the fossil fuel that will lead to a renewable energy future because it's cleaner burning, emits less greenhouse gas and uses water less intensively in certain steps of the process.

For years, environmentalists talked about gas as a «bridge fuel» that could carry us from a fossil fuel past to a future powered by renewable energy.

Natural gas has been promoted as a «bridge fuel» even by some environmentalists because it emits half as much CO2 as coal to produce a given amount of electricity.

A strong ethical case can be made that any political support for natural gas as a short - term bridge fuel should be conditioned on the natural gas industry promising to stop lobbying against rapid scale up of renewable energy programs.

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So, although methane leakage reduces the short - term emissions benefit of switching from coal to gas — and should be addressed for that reason — it does not limit natural gas's potential as a bridge fuel to a low - carbon future.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

Gas's success as a bridge fuel crucially hinges on the degree to which it is recognized as such by policy makers, energy planners and industry.

Even worse, gas is often wrongly extolled as a solution or a «bridge fuel» in the transition to renewables.

The pair traveled around the country, pitching natural gas as the «bridge fuel» to a green energy future.

We'll say this about Clinton's characterization of natural gas as a «bridge» fuel: Yes, the U.S. needs renewable fuels as part of an all - of - the - above approach to energy.

But methane leaks from natural gas fields have undermined the supposed advantage of natural gas in addressing climate change, threatening its status as a so - called «bridge fuel» toward a carbon - free economy.

Wirth has touted the natural gas from shale as a «game - changer» that could help address global warming, but he says the industry's inadequate response to land and water concerns have imperiled the fuel's future as a bridge to a low - carbon future.

«We are... producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels.

Since the Reagan era, when the American Gas Association first began touting its product as a bridge fuel, this idea has established itself among many of the world's leading energy experts.

Nonetheless, natural gas is often touted as a temporary «bridge fuel» that will help us move away from coal and toward renewable energy like wind and solar.

And while it's nice to think of natural gas as a «bridge fuel,» we don't really have time for that, either.

• Clinton: «We are... producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels, and I think that's an important transition.»

One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same as that for oil and petroleum products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.

Gas is a very good bridging fuel to get there as it has less than half of the emissions, for instance, that coal has and also much less than oil has.

Natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in meeting U.S. and global energy needs and could serve as a «bridge fuel» for countries as they transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

The Sierra Club says it supports the conversion of existing coal plants to natural gas as a «bridge until fuel until renewable energy is the predominant energy source.»

Clinton responded by promoting hydraulic fracturing («fracking») for oil and gas as a «bridge» to renewable fuels while also citing climate change as a «serious problem» and that she wants «to make sure we don't leave people behind.»

«The large GHG footprint of shale gas undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over coming decades, if the goal is to reduce global warming.»

Taking this into account, natural gas really doesn't fare nearly as well as the «bridge fuel» it was once touted to be.