Sentences with phrase «rapidly by natural gas»

If taxes and fines proportional to the costs could be imposed, coal would lose some of its competitive advantages, and would be replaced more rapidly by natural gas and then solar and wind.

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After the end of the Cold War, Russia's economy had been buoyed by a rapidly expanded international market for its vast natural resources, most notably oil and natural gas.

Analysts excited about the company's exposure to the rapidly growing natural gas sector were pumping up the stock, ignoring its low and declining return on invested capital (ROIC), significant write - downs indicating poor capital allocation, and the high expectations implied by its stock price.

With Asia's rapidly growing need for energy imports in the early 2000s, Canada hoped to reduce its almost 100 % reliance on the United States as an export market for oil and natural gas by expanding to Asia.

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.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

«Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever - growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal,» says Stossel.

Permian Basin oil production is booming, but the growth rate is being threatened by rapidly growing volumes of associated natural gas.

During the mid-2000s, the generating mix changed rapidly, driven largely by the rise in natural gas produced by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.