Sentences with phrase «natural gas wells even»

Methane escapes from natural gas wells even before fracking, according to new direct measurements from flying over in an airplane

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CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

This is in contrast to other, sunnier reports on Arctic melt, which detail the possible «good» this melt will have — opening up shipping lanes, increasing fishing, and even allowing us to access minerals, natural gas, and oil in the ocean bed.

Struggling just to break even, many capped their «dry» gas wells and focused on producing natural gas liquids such as butane and naphtha.

That is important because most oil wells do not spew a lot of natural gas, which makes the Synfuels approach useful even at smaller fields.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

And there are other challenges associated with fracking for natural gas besides climate change, from what to do with the wastewater produced to drinking water contamination and even improperly drilled wells that leak or explode and get out of control (a blowout).

But natural gas consists predominately of methane, so even small leaks from natural gas wells can create large climate concerns because methane is a potent greenhouse gas — it's about 30 times more effective at trapping solar heat than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period.

The hybrid powertrain is optionally available for a large number of model variants of the best - selling urban bus, even for the natural - gas - engined Citaro NGT.

The group is also training rats to locate people buried under rubble from natural disasters, as well as detect leaking gas lines and even the presence of tuberculosis in human.

I have argued for many years that one of the best things that could happen would be to lose (and I mean magically, truly lose so it would be gone forever) the Saudi production: that would concentrate many minds and lead to many changes (natural gas is always there and very plentiful, now even in Israel).

I think the analysis that best captures this effect is the one done by Larry Cathles (see here and here), which concludes that even with 1 percent leakage, on the centennial time scale switching to natural gas gives you 40 percent of the benefit of switching to entirely carbon - free energy.

One reason for being confident about there being much more uncertaintly than the 97 % concensus suggests is that there is nothing like a concensus, let alone proof, of what caused (and causes) the extreme natural variations in climate throughout geological time.This variation is well documented and almost certainly has a variety of underlying causes which are likely to be very different from C02 or other MM emissions even if higher greenhouse gases levels have often been present.

While there are numerable questionable elements in his discussions (such as placing equivalency between a depletable resource, such as a natural gas well, that might produce for just a few years vs a renewable resource (solar or wind) that can produce at that same location indefinitely), his equations simply do not stand up to even cursory scrutiny.

Even if natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.

According to their best estimates (and even their «worst» estimates) thirty years from now, the main energy source for the US is natural gas and fossil fuels.

Over the longer - term, Japan could increase energy security, and better insulate itself from economic and geologic shocks to its energy system through more aggressively developing its internal renewable energy resources while deepening electricity market and natural gas interconnections with China, South Korea and even Russia.

China and India are in more similar situations with respect to natural gas imports, but even there India has been better positioned to take advantage of lowpriced spot liquefied natural gas (LNG).

«The Environmental Partnership will help America's natural gas and oil industry share goals, technologies and best practices that will make our environmental stewardship even stronger.»

(IEA, 2012) Even if natural gas combustion creates a 50 percent less CO2 per unit of energy produced, an amount which is beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not produce the greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years necessary to give any hope of restricting warming to potentially catastrophic levels.

I'm merely pointing out that the physical model of greenhouse gas induced warming over the last 165 years is an excellent fit to the data, one that is even better when one adds an purely empirical «natural» variation on top of it.

Natural gas, going back to McKibben, might be better than coal in this context, but renewables would be even better — and the opportunity to develop them is there.

From property taxes that supply revenue for schools, to state and local taxes that fund road and bridge improvements, water and sewer projects, local housing initiatives and environmental programs, to even royalty payments that can sustain family farms and businesses — oil and natural gas development generates local economic benefits well beyond producing affordable, reliable energy.

But to quantify the influences (or «forcings» in climate jargon) even further, they considered three anthropogenic forcings — well - mixed greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, and tropospheric and stratospheric ozone — as well as two natural forcings — changes in solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols — all of which are likely to influence tropopause height.»

It is also possible that natural gas costs will stay low while diesel costs will rise in the mid-term, so it could become an even better deal.

It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.

Natural gas could be our last shot for getting a better climate bill this year, as John Laumer writes — it could prove a viable source of relatively low emissions energy while we transition to even cleaner sources like wind and solar.