Sentences with phrase «large amounts of natural gas»

Yesterday, two Cornell University professors said at a press conference that fracking releases large amounts of natural gas, which consists mostly of methane, directly into the atmosphere — much more than previously thought.

This oil spill was the largest in history, with the release of 4.1 million barrels of crude oil as well as large amounts of natural gas from a mile below the surface of the ocean.

The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits has been hypothesized as a cause of past and possibly future climate changes.

At the same time, there is a hope that the U.S. will be able to export large amounts of natural gas.

It is official California policy to import large amounts of natural gas to make electricity and dictate how other places make electricity based on ignorance.

Water molecules form three - dimensional empty cages organized in a lattice with the potential to store large amounts of natural gases.

However, beginning in 2009, the gap between coal and natural gas prices narrowed, as large amounts of natural gas produced from shale formations changed the balance between supply and demand in U.S. natural gas markets.

It's for that reason the UK still has «gasholders», magnificent pieces of Victorian ironwork, holding large amounts of natural gas in inflatable bellows.

Big oil interests are scraping away hundreds of thousands of acres in North America's Boreal forest to produce tar sands oil, and in the process consuming large amounts of natural gas and generating three times as much global warming pollution as conventional crude oil production.

One of the most remarkable is a fire - filled excavation in Turkmenistan, called the Gates of Hell by some, that resulted when a huge cavern was accidentally breached in the early 1970s, releasing large amounts of natural gas.

The United States also has large amounts of natural gas.