Sentences with phrase «not cheap natural gas»

And this time the culprit is not cheap natural gas, the Koch Brothers, or the desert tortoise advocates.

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She also toured Three Mile Island, walking viewers through how cheap natural gas is shutting that plant down when one of the worst nuclear accidents in history could not.

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

Thanks to new supply from shale formations, natural gas is not only abundant, but it's cheap too.

The heaters themselves are generally more expensive, and you have to factor in the installation costs, but once they are installed they are not expensive to maintain, and the natural gas is cheaper than propane.

But, he said it will likely not solve the financial difficulties for upstate nuclear power plants, which have been suffering losses from the upstate - downstate bottle neck and competition from cheap natural gas.

One example is the use of natural gas, which has benefited the United States but is not as cheap or as abundant in China.

Although SynGest's price isn't yet competitive with natural gas ammonia, Oswald believes there's substantial demand for a lower - carbon source of ammonia - based fertilizer: «Cheap natural gas won't fix that.»

Environmentalists counter that Colstrip's real enemy is cheap natural gas, not lawsuits and regulations.

They never caught on, however, because they could not compete with those powered by cheap electricity and because their heat source — burning biomass or natural gas — is difficult to manage.

I definitely don't see it as overvalued... and now the CEO is pretty darn excited about investing in natural gas assets now that everything is really cheap.

Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.

Similarly, says Seba, solar power won't soon just be cheaper than coal, wind, nuclear or natural gas.

The value of doing this is clear: «Experts say that if we bought $ 50 to $ 200 billion worth of solar panels over the next 10 — 20 years, the price of solar could come to down to the price of natural gas and even coal, not just in the U.S. but even in developing countries like China, where coal is especially cheap.»

The assumption undergirding EP's analysis was that cheap natural gas, heavily - subsidized solar and wind, and flattening electricity demand, make nuclear plants less economical everywhere, not just in deregulated markets.

Moreover, in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and many other nations, nuclear is not only cheaper than natural gas and petroleum but cheaper even than coal.

@James Allison I guess 40 degrees north or south is not too extreme to use a heat pump, but only in a country that doesn't have an ample supply of natural gas, which is generally cheaper for heating at most if not all latitudes where it is available.

But with coal - fired power plants already beleaguered by cheap natural gas prices and other environmental regulations, experts said getting there won't be easy.

But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that it's dirt - cheap natural gas that's been stealing coal's thunder — not a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington.

And, Kelley pointed out, though shale gas deposits are making natural gas cheap right now, «nobody expects that to last, not even the people in the natural gas industry.»

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.

Adjusted for inflation, natural gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the price this year three to five times lower than it was in the mid-2000s.

In the longer run, it isn't clear whether coal or natural gas will be cheaper in the US for producing electricity.

Energy efficiency's stunning success in lowering carbon emissions should get more attention, and not just because it is cheaper than building new natural gas - fired power plants.

- In the US (but not elsewhere), where tracking has produced so much cheap natural gas, coal is not the cheapest form of producing electricity right now.

It's hard for me to take an article on practical solutions to AGW seriously if it doesn't mention nuclear power or fracking and other cheap natural gas.

Natural gas isn't just cheaper than coal; it also burns much cleaner.

Carbon combustion generated 80 % of someone's energy, but it sure as heck doesn't constitute much of the energy of people who can take advantage of cheaper geothermal, hydro or natural gas (which is largely hydrogen combustion); and as the price of solar and wind plummet and the practicality of extracting fossil other than gas drops like a stone in lock step with the advances of competing technologies, what sort of backwards knuckle - dragger actually wants the choking and fumes and leaks and inconvenience and dust and soot and sulfates?

The main reason why very few new nuclear power stations opened around the world after the mid-1980s was cheap natural gas (plus double - digit interest rates, which favoured quick - to - build gas - fired power stations against slower - to - build nuclear and coal), not Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

In fact, not only are natural gas plants much cheaper to build, but they're ready in about half the time of coal.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

Oh noz, the industry has realized that the cheapest way (which is to say «the way that bes preserves living standards) to cut carbon emissions is to switch from coal to natural gas... which means that they're not taking the more expensive way (which is to say «way that destroys living standards») that we want them to.

A recent report from the Institute for Policy Integrity shows that the rapidly falling cost of renewable energy technologies (wind and solar, but not only wind and solar), coupled with the stubbornly low price of natural gas, mean that CPP compliance is likely to be cheaper than anyone projected.

The state's largest electric utilities are proposing a steadily increasing dependence on natural gas, which, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel — and not the cheapest option.

Whatever the legal landscape is, it can't change the fact that there's cheap natural gas and utility executives aren't dumb.

The result of all this is that renewables compete with conventional sources of power, but they do not displace nearly as much coal as cheap natural gas.

«The problem with coal has been less regulation than that cheap natural gas has changed the economics of coal... the shape of the power sector and change shouldn't be a bipartisian question at all.»

President Obama: «We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because, in the medium term, at least, it not only can provide safe, cheap power, it can help reduce our carbon emissions.»

«Americans should not have to accept unsafe drinking water just because natural gas is cheaper than Coal.

Published in Nature, an analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current supply of cheap natural gas would not slow the long - term growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Asked whether nuclear can compete with today's remarkably cheap natural gas, Morris said the fuel cost is not what makes natural gas attractive.

But the reason coal use is down in the US is not because of environmentalists but because of cheap abundant natural gas.

«Whatever President Trump may say, U.S. coal's main problem has been cheap natural gas and renewable power, not a politically driven «war on coal,»» explain BNEF chair Michael Liebreich and chief editor Angus McCrone.

From The Daily Caller: «New York State is certainly not alone in grappling with how to keep nuclear facilities afloat while cheap natural gas is pushing down electricity prices...

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