Sentences with phrase «produced by natural gas»

In this scenario, electricity produced by natural gas power plants could «crowd out» renewable generation by forcing the grid operator to curtail renewables to avoid a situation in which electricity supply exceeds demand.

Rozell said that the recycling of fracking fluid is helping to reduce the amount of water produced by each natural gas well, but the fluid can usually only be reused once.

Not exact matches

«While asset monetizations enhance our liquidity, sales of producing natural gas and oil properties adversely affect the amount of cash flow we generate and reduce the amount and value of collateral available to secure our obligations, both of which are exacerbated by low natural gas prices..

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burning coal.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

* Ethylene is a natural gas produced by fruit.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

«Our project is to make Ghana a regional production and manufacturing centre, by weaving together our numerous natural resources, such as our food produce, extensive cash crops, gold, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa and beyond,» he explained.

Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stated, has the opportunity to become a regional centre for light manufacturing for a market of some 350 million people in the ECOWAS Community, projected to reach 500 million by 2030, «by weaving together our numerous natural resources, like food produce, bauxite, iron ore, oil and gas, with our talents and energy, to turn our nation into an economic powerhouse in West Africa, generating full employment for our teeming youth.»

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

The controversial 122 - mile pipeline would bring natural gas produced by hydrofracking in Northern Pennsylvania to a terminal in the Schoharie County Town of Wright, where it would then be sent on to other existing lines in the area.

Oil and gas companies developing fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Dakota rely on a process called hydraulic fracturing, which produces natural gas by blasting water and chemicals into energy - rich rock formations deep underground.

The Tour lab, with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), produced the patented material that pulls only carbon dioxide molecules from flowing natural gas and polymerizes them while under pressure naturally provided by the well.

Hydrogen gas is produced primarily by heating natural gas and water vapor.

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

When coal - and natural gas — fed plants produce ammonia, they generate two main by - products: heat and carbon dioxide (CO2).

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Ammonia is currently made by a reaction between nitrogen and hydrogen, called the Haber - Bosch process, where hydrogen is produced from reforming natural gas.

Here is how it works: The natural gas is cracked with heat — produced by burning some of the natural gas to generate temperatures from 2,700 to 3,300 degrees Fahrenheit (1,480 to 1,815 degrees Celsius)-- into acetylene, a simple hydrocarbon.

Natural gas produces a quarter of the nitrogen oxides emitted by coal and half the carbon dioxide for every unit of electricity generated.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during thenatural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during theNatural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during thenatural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Natural gas is by far the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon dioxide as the energy - equivalent amount of coal.

Bringing the cost of just the photovoltaic cells down to about $ 1 per watt is the magic number solar manufacturers are aiming for, figuring that will make them cost - competitive with electricity produced by burning natural gas.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

But hydrogen is commonly produced from natural gas heated by steam, which results in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems.

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

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.

A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based natural gas, Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced in Canada from biogas facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.

For each barrel of crude oil produced by that method, around 1200 cubic feet of gas must be burned — and that's the entire purpose of the Alaskan natural gas pipeline.

«Massive infrastructure» Ausubel draws his conclusions by analysing the amount of energy renewables, natural gas, and nuclear can produce in terms of power per square metre of land used.

Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit of weight with half the carbon footprint during combustion.

According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with the IEA and one of the report's authors, «19 % of global electricity generation is taken for lighting — that's more than is produced by hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from natural gas.»

A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

Natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (a much - touted key to expanding production) is even more climate - disruptive than coal because of methane gas leakage.

The limiting, anti-consumer aspect of this approach is unfolding in New England, where pipelines to bring natural gas to the region, to produce heat and more affordable electricity, are being assailed by anti-infrastructure advocates.

Consumers Energy wants to buy a power plant fired by natural gas to help replace the energy produced by the Palisades nuclear plant.

In addition, Sundrop Fuels is able to maximize its synthesis gas production by integrating natural gas with biomass feedstock, facilitating the most efficient utilization of hydrogen from both the biomass and natural gas to produce higher yields than any other biomass process, it says.

Already competitive with electricity produced by coal and natural gas - fired power plants, GE is driving the cost of clean, green, renewable energy down further with its Brilliant line of wind turbines and power management systems.

However, significant emissions are still being produced by America's nearly 2,000 natural gas plants, none of which employ carbon capture.

The «Beyond Coal» campaign threatens the survival of an energy - producing industry beset by Environmental Protection Agency regulations and increased competition from wind and natural gas.

Adding wind and solar photovoltaic capacity to the grid may require augmenting the amount of peak - load plants, which can be done relatively cheaply by adding gas turbines, which can be fueled by sustainably - produced biofuels or natural gas.

A recent study found that a CHP power plant operating on wood chips released 7 times less CO2 by unit of energy produced than a similar plant using natural gas.

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

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.

Robert Howarth is his colleague at Cornell, an ecologist who produced one of the most controversial scientific studies of the year: a paper arguing that natural gas produced by fracking may actually have a bigger greenhouse gas footprint than coal.

Methane from natural gas leaks in oil and gas production, for example, has a different signature from methane generated by bacteria in a cow's stomach or similar methane - producing bacteria found in rice paddies or other wetlands.