Sentences with phrase «gas as the bridge»

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.

If the problem is human emissions of CO2 then the answer is well within our grasp — nuclear and hydro buildout, with natural gas as a bridge until it is complete.

Some major energy companies are promoting a business strategy that uses natural gas as the bridge to a cleaner future.

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?

Studies that model natural gas as a bridge, such as one conducted by Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations, find it could help stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

So while today's research is a challenge to conventional thinking on fracking's climate impact, it will not end the argument for gas as a bridge from coal towards a lower - carbon future.

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

At least coal can be replaced with natural gas as a bridge.

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

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

I mention this because it is important to note that there are plenty of marketable products that arose out of the early gas industry and have served as bridges to the next frontier.

And he must have felt just as elated when he saw masses of people stream out of homes and houses of worship onto the streets and bridges of Cairo, chanting «Peacefully, peacefully» as they faced riot police and tear gas on their way to Tahrir Square.

«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».

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will call for increasing the federal gas tax by 25 cents a gallon over the next five years to help pay for rebuilding U.S. roads and bridges as part of its push for a federal infrastructure initiative this year.

«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

Such interactions often form streamer - like tidal tails as seen in Arp 256, as well as bridges of gas, dust and stars between the galaxies.

As a result, the things the gas tax is supposed to pay for — roads, bridges, tunnels — are crumbling.

As his work with [Nathan] Myhrvold shows, and as Michael Levi's paper in Climatic Change also shows, natural gas may have contributed to the current pause in U.S. carbon emissions growth, but if it is a bridge, it is a short bridge of limited utilitAs his work with [Nathan] Myhrvold shows, and as Michael Levi's paper in Climatic Change also shows, natural gas may have contributed to the current pause in U.S. carbon emissions growth, but if it is a bridge, it is a short bridge of limited utilitas Michael Levi's paper in Climatic Change also shows, natural gas may have contributed to the current pause in U.S. carbon emissions growth, but if it is a bridge, it is a short bridge of limited utility.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

But it does support natural gas as a «bridge technology» to replace coal until renewables take over or CCS becomes widespread.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

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«Natural gas truly is a bridge to a low - carbon future and could enable very substantial reductions in carbon emissions — as much as 50 percent by 2050,» he says.

In an op - ed in the Financial Times yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry pointed to efforts to curb the super-greenhouse gases hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) through an amendment to the Montreal Protocol as a place to help bridge the gap.

Both CDU and SPD see efficient coal - and gas - fired electricity plants as an acceptable and important bridge technology.

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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.

Looking left, she could see as far down as the gas lamp in the wall on Blickses Kink, and right, to the lantern hanging from a ring sunk in the capstone on Wytepole Bridge.

I mention this because it is important to note that there are plenty of marketable products that arose out of the early gas industry and have served as bridges to the next frontier.

The «essential categories» number fifteen, and include gas, grocery and drug stores, as well as telecommunication charges, cable / satellite TV / Internet Service Providers, utility payments, gym / health club memberships, spas / salons, quick service payment / fast food restaurants, video rentals, department stores, dry cleaners, movie theatres, local and suburban commuter passenger transportation (including ferries, bridges, tolls, parking garages, taxis / limos), and pet supply stores / veterinary services.

Municipal Securities may be used for numerous public purposes, including construction of public facilities, such as airports, bridges, highways, housing, hospitals, mass transportation, schools, streets, water and sewer works, and gas and electric utilities.

Whether you use the mileage allowance or drive a gas guzzler and claim actual costs, remember to deduct parking fees and bridge or highway tolls, as well.

As Victor notes, simply moving from coal to gas is hardly a climate solution on its own, and others challenge the idea that natural gas can serve as a bridge along the road to a post-fossil energy futurAs Victor notes, simply moving from coal to gas is hardly a climate solution on its own, and others challenge the idea that natural gas can serve as a bridge along the road to a post-fossil energy futuras a bridge along the road to a post-fossil energy future.

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».

But opponents of hydraulic fracturing spun the study as proving that gas was no «bridge» to a climate - friendly global energy mix.

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.