Sentences with phrase «than natural gas»

Their big claim, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is that coal can produce electricity three times cheaper than natural gas.

Per energy unit, oil produces less CO2 than coal, but more than natural gas.

Forest chips were 2 - 3 times more expensive than natural gas and coal but cheaper than heavy oil.

Currently, the leaks in the gas system mean that running trucks and buses on diesel is still cleaner than natural gas, the researchers said.

Even though it still represents only a tiny fraction of energy production overall — less than 2 % — it already has more workers than natural gas, coal, wind, and nuclear.

Rather, it appears that compensation was tied more closely to production levels than natural gas prices during 2008 through 2010.

Not only that... wood pellets produce way more CO2 than natural gas.

And new electricity generation from wind could be more economically efficient than natural gas.

In some cases, these grid management solutions deliver even greater flexibility than natural gas because they can provide grid reliability services without having to be online and simultaneously generating electricity.

According to every major study, nuclear power is the safest way to make reliable power, including safer than natural gas.

They're also creating more jobs and economic development than natural gas.

Burning solid coal generates a greater amount of CO2 than natural gas or petroleum, which has led to many environmentalists calling for a rapid cut back in coal.

As Brigham sat silently, Murray largely blamed policies by the Obama administration for the decline of coal, rather than the natural gas boom associated with fracking.

«The carbon footprint is essentially the same or maybe even less than a natural gas plant that doesn't have carbon capture,» said Randall Rush, the Southern Company engineer who spent 25 years bringing the plant to life.

According to the report, recent and impending retirements of coal - fired, oil - fired and nuclear power plants mean that by June 2021, about 4,600 MW of generators that use fuels other than natural gas will be pulled offline.

However, the public health risk associated with coal power is several times larger than that from nuclear power (Ren et al 1998), and the CO2 emissions associated with nuclear power are approximately 7 times lower than natural gas and 15 times lower than coal (Sovacool 2008).

Look beyond decades of carbon capture deficit, though, and you'll see biomass plants that release a bit more greenhouse gasses — as in 50 percent more CO2 and nitrous oxide than coal plants, and (across all pollutant categories) eight times more than a natural gas plant.

Despite substantial installation costs, «given falling solar costs and rising avoided costs for utilities, it looks as if right around year 12 to 13, large - scale in - basin solar — rooftops and parking lots — will become cheaper than the natural gas alternative that you have to supply peak power,» he says.

Once proper carbon, rapid - response and future scarcity price signals are applied, hydro is likely to be a more lucrative form of load balancing power than natural gas, even though both will prosper through premium pricing over the medium term.

«But from a climate change perspective, it's not a big win,» because diesel engines burn the fuel efficiently, delivering more miles per liter of fuel than natural gas alternatives (though natural gas engines can be improved).

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

Until recently, battery storage has been a far more expensive means of meeting demand surges than natural gas «peaker» plants.

Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.

For example, coal emits 1.6 times more carbon dioxide per megajoule than natural gas.

Green Gas is actually a range of gases that have lower carbon dioxide emissions than natural gas.

Because these larger molecules have a higher boiling point than natural gas, they exist as a liquid.

(Although installing one entails a higher initial cost than a natural gas furnace, a pump will pay for itself in 10 years.)

Because LNG takes up 600 times less space than natural gas in a gaseous state, it is much easier to store or transport.

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

German gas plant owners can be forgiven for feeling they would be better off burning Euro notes than natural gas.

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«The immediate impact of the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, [National Mining Association spokesman Luke] Popovich said, has been shown to have a much larger effect on coal production and employment than natural gas competition alone,» SNL reported.

But FCEVs are cleaner than natural gas vehicles and way cleaner than gas engines and diesels.

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What if a off shore wind power generates cheap electricity and innovators in selling heat pumps figure out how to replace gas heat with ground source heat pumps for less than natural gas connection and usage costs over the first ten year of the 20 year life of the heat pump and 50 - 100 year life of the ground source?

«There is more data coming off a wind turbine than a natural gas - fired turbine because the fuel is variable,» O'Toole said.

This was what the CPP was doing, and economics too because coal, especially clean coal, is less cost - efficient for energy providers than natural gas.

Coal is more carbon - intensive than oil, and oil more so than natural gas, so the carbon price per unit of energy would be highest for coal, next for oil, and lowest for natural gas.

Onshore wind power costs about 70 % more than natural gas combined — cycle power, and offshore wind costs about 300 % more.

Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year's Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost - effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy's peak power needs.

Because of the way Europe's energy market works, brown coal remains much cheaper here than natural gas, an alternative that produces lower carbon dioxide emissions.

Enteric fermentation is up on the list and contributes more than natural gas production according to the USEPA:

Between 2000 and 2008, coal was significantly less expensive than natural gas, and coal supplied about 50 % of total U.S. generation.

The end result of Craig's calculation was that — even in California — her dryer would produce twice as much CO2 if it ran on electric rather than natural gas.