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Meanwhile, Shell is preparing to anchor the world's largest floating offshore structure oe  the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural gas facility oe  off Australia's northwest coast in 2014.

and will produce the natural gas equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil per day. While few groups could afford to build a floating city capable of weathering such storms

And what is Shell going to do with Prelude once all the natural gas runs out? Â The infrastructure for a marine community will be waiting to be used.

we may well be recovering natural gas oe methane hydrate oe from beneath the oceans, tapping reserves perhaps twice as big as all other fossil fuels combined.

Sucking CO2 from the skies with artificial treesit may be a colourless, odourless and completely natural gas,

The structure will also be fueled primarily by natural gas. Councilman Orrin Mahoney said of the proposal,

The high-tech startup culture has given Boulder a prosperous economy without the help of oil, natural gas,

Without the help of oil, natural gas, or any monolithic industry, Boulder County (population 300,000) ranks among the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP.

It serves as a oegetter for natural gases in vacuum tubes and other suction devices. Calcium s many natural and manufactured compounds are used widely in a variety of industries.

#Japan Scales Back Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals Japan is slashing its greenhouse gas reduction goals in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident which has caused the country to replace its nuclear power with coal natural gas

which led to cheap natural gas that has reduced coal consumption (which emits more CO2 than natural gas)

and made new coal plants uneconomical. Society cannot rely on either of those factors continuing to bring emissions down.

The U s. economy is already recovering the country is rapidly building export capacity for natural gas

Additionally the amount of methane leakage from natural gas facilities remains highly uncertain. Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.

Depending on the leakage rate moving from coal to natural gas could fail to provide any climate benefits for 50 or even 100 years.

Over 70 percent of U s. electricity comes from plants that burn fossil fuels usually coal and natural gas.

#in the future as utilities focus more on natural gas power generation. But some watching the natural gas industry are skeptical of how the rules will affect natural gas consumption in the U s.#oethere does not appear to be a mechanism for the federal government to assist in encouraging natural gas usage#Colorado School Of mines Petroleum Engineering Professor

William Fleckenstein said Monday adding that the federal government does not appear to be doing much to encourage the construction of liquefied natural gas facilities to help reduce carbon emissions globally by helping coal-dependent countries switch to less carbon-intensive natural gas for electric power production.#

#oenatural gas in the long term will have a tremendous cost advantage as the technology continues to improve#he said.

To make predictions over the long term for natural gas demand driven by government regulations is difficult to do

#But Cornell University earth and atmospheric sciences professor Louis Derry said Monday that not only will the new rules be effective at reducing U s. overall greenhouse gas emissions they'll boost the use of natural gas

I think pretty clearly the demand for natural gas has gone up already this will accelerate that Derry said Monday adding that there are no other sources of electric generating capacity that are currently available on a large enough scale to replace coal.

#Natural gas? Cows Toot Out Most Methane A new snapshot of U s. methane emissions in 2004 shows livestock primarily cattle and pigs were the country's worst gas emitters at the time.

Natural gas numbers off? The review published in February in the journal Science of more than 200 studies found the EPA is underestimating total U s. methane emissions by anywhere from 25 to 75 percent.

At the same time that the scientific community is finding evidence that methane is being undercounted the newly released draft version of the U s. EPA's national greenhouse-gas emission inventory presents data showing that methane emissions from natural gas

The new draft inventory also revised downward estimates for past years because of new information about reduced emission well completions (the process that gets natural gas to start flowing) and other voluntary mitigation steps received from companies.

This treatment of methane emissions from natural gas is difficult to reconcile with the new Science study by Adam Brandt of Stanford university

The EPA greenhouse gas inventory uses data from bottom up studies to develop emission factors for different components of the entire natural gas system from production (extraction from the ground) to processing transmission and distribution.

These emission factors are part of an attempt to calculate representative quantities of pollution released with each of the activities that make up the natural gas system.

The emission factor is multiplied by the number of well completions of each type to estimate their contribution to total emissions from the natural gas system.

A limitation of the bottom-up studies upon which the EPA inventory relies is a requirement that researchers obtain access to natural-gas operations.

Natural gas? Cows Toot Out Most Methane Magnetic field is weakening: Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening.

and natural gas and significantly reduce the billions of dollars we send abroad each year.</</br>Institute for 21st-Century Energy report, 2008 Chu:

while providing a boost to vehicles powered by natural gas and electricity.

Research for development: Nature Newschris Whitty became head of research at the UK Department for International Development last month.

including incentives for natural gas and nuclear power, but leaves many of the biggest issues including how to structure the initial allocation of emissions permits,

and to a lesser extent the natural-gas industry, see opportunities in the push toward low-carbon energy. Similarly, major companies such as The Dow chemical Company and General electric are pushing for legislation as part of the US Climate Action Partnership.

Business watch Firms that tap unconventional natural-gas sources 墉 such as in underground shale 墉 are in demand.

and force out natural gas. See go. nature. com/p5fj1q for more. Events Heavenly kiss China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docked with its Tiangong 1 module on 2 november,

a controversial technique that involves pumping high-pressure fluids into shale to force out natural gas, probably polluted water supplies in central Wyoming.

and other factors such as the flaring of the natural gas produced as a by-product, which is common in Nigeria the dirtiest conventional oils could be just as bad or even worse than crude from the oil sands.

Producers are awarded also credits for reducing the flaring of natural gas, which can be used to meet their fuel-quality target.

and natural gas by 2035. Since taking office, electricity production from wind and solar sources has doubled already more than in the United states. We are boosting our use of cleaner fuels,

America has regained its position as the world s leading producer of natural gas. My administration is promoting the safe,

responsible development of America s near 100-year supply of natural gas that will help support more than 600,000 jobs.

but instead to facilitate responsible use of all energy sources from oil and coal and natural gas, to nuclear and hydropower and biofuels, to wind and Solar energy development, economic growth,

or'fracking'to extract natural gas had contaminated groundwater near Pavillion, Wyoming. An independent analysis commissioned by environmental groups and published on 3 october supported the EPA's assessment,

when the combined results of the greenhouse-gas measurements and modelling will enable cities to pinpoint methane emissions from natural-gas leaks, for example,

The decline is in part a result of the economic slowdown and a shift in electricity production from coal to natural gas,

encouraging the shift towards natural gas. Other rules could target the oil and gas industry by limiting emissions from refineries and drilling sites.

and swapping coal for natural-gas in power generation. Climate change More than 80%of Americans believe that the planet is warming

Advanced natural-gas power plants are poised to meet the standards but the rule would effectively require new coal-fired plants to capture

Competition from natural gas and renewable energy as well as safety concerns have prompted several US nuclear plants to shut in the past year.

The reduction is the result of power-plant closures arising from competition from lower-priced natural gas

I wonder how the president feels about natural gas. Humans are made out of carbon and breath out C02

Greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning are broken further down into type (coal oil natural gas) and then even further to specifics like cars airplanes and industries like paper or iron production.

and natural gas extraction and you have a lot of empty voids and a lot more gravels and settleable materials that could substantially collapse in an earthquake.

Also if you are so against natural gas production/oil production you really should sell your car grow your own food make your own cloths

Americans Want More Energy From Wind Solar Gasno fewer than two in three Americans want the U s. to put more emphasis on producing domestic energy using solar power (76%)wind (71%)and natural gas (65%.

%Least favored is coal with about one in three Americans wanting to prioritize its domestic production. www. gallup. com/poll/161519/americans-emphasis-solar-wind-natural-gas. aspxlistenup regardless of the tone

87%Natural gas: 89%Oil: 67%Nuclear power: 65%Coal: 56%In other words generally speaking Americans want to become energy independent through ALL THE resources at our disposal. http://www. gallup. com/file/poll/161525/Energy sources 130327. pdfthis is absolutely true

and gas permits and clear red tape for natural-gas production. And he encouraged Congress to support research

and technology to make natural gas more environmentally friendly. He proposed an Energy Security Trust funded by oil

Magic Hat in Vermont teamed up with a company called Purposeenergy to build a biodigester that turns grain into natural gas.

GTL plants like Shell's new Qatar plant using natural gas to make diesel at $35 a barrel

and natural gas the symbolic splash is huge: Heirs to a major oil fortune are pulling their money out of the industry.

Inaction is not an option says a representative Helge Lund of Statoil best known as a European natural gas supplier.

although wood is currently uncompetitive with natural gas-powered boilers in certain states it could compete with other fuel sources such as oil propane and coal.

beera discovery at Rice university aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda.

The combination could be a boon for an auto industry under pressure to market consumer cars that use cheaper natural gas.

This becomes increasingly important as automakers think about powering cars with natural gas. Metal tanks that can handle natural gas under pressure are often much heavier than the automakers would like.

He said the material could help to solve longstanding problems in food packaging too. Remember when you were a kid you'd get a balloon

#Chinas synthetic gas plants would be powered greenhouse giantscoal synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants

Using coal to make natural gas may be good for China's energy security but it's an environmental disaster in the making said Robert B. Jackson Nicholas Professor of Environmental sciences

At a minimum Chinese policymakers should delay implementing their synthetic natural gas plan to avoid a potentially costly

As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters

of synthetic natural gas annually. Private companies are planning to build more than 30 other plants capable of producing as much as 200 million cubic meters of natural gas each year--far exceeding China's current natural gas demand.

These plants are coming online at a rapid pace. If all nine plants planned by the Chinese government were built they would emit 21 billion tons of carbon dioxide over a typical 40-year lifetime seven times the greenhouse gas that would be emitted by traditional natural gas plants Jackson said.

If all 40 of the facilities are built their carbon dioxide emissions would be an astonishing 110 billion tons Jackson said.

If the synthetic natural gas made by the plants were used to fuel vehicles the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be twice as large as from gasoline-fueled vehicles.

Producing synthetic natural gas requires 50 to 100 times the amount of water you need to produce shale gas Yang said.

Methane the main component of natural gas is released from leaking pipelines coal mines oil wells cattle rice paddies and landfills.

And all wood-and biomass-burning stoves were replaced with cleaner modern stoves that use electricity or natural gas for energy.

which is natural gas that is otherwise lost to the atmosphere he said. At the processor and distribution level greater emphasis on truck fleet-fuel usage

By contrast we assess that large-scale expansion of unconstrained natural gas use would not mitigate the climate problem

By contrast we assess that large-scale expansion of unconstrained natural gas use would not mitigate the climate problem

Methane is emitted at a wide range of concentrations from a variety of sources including natural gas systems livestock landfills coal mining manure management wastewater treatment rice cultivation and a few combustion processes.

The team's research focused on two different applications--concentrating a medium-purity methane stream to a high-purity range (greater than 90 percent) as involved in purifying a low-quality natural gas;

Biofuels he said will face a difficult time for decades into the future in competing with the less-expensive natural gas now available with hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

The commercial market for hydrogen gas is now around $100 billion for hydrogen produced from natural gas

and natural gas account for about half of the CO2 that humans add to the atmosphere each year; these power plants are prime candidates for new technology that captures CO2 before it goes up in smoke.

That technology--a two-phase chemical process--has been used for decades to remove naturally occurring CO2 from natural gas.

The liquid amine captures CO2 and drains away while the purified natural gas bubbles out the top of the column.

The CO2 that comes out of the ground with natural gas is under high pressure while the CO2 at power plants is said not Hirasaki There's also a greater volume of CO2 per unit mass at a power plant than at a natural gas well.

For these reasons and others the amine process must be engineered re if it is to be cost-effective for CO2 capture at power plants.

and compressed natural gas vehicles such as the Honda civic Natural gas. Although driving costs per mile will be lower especially for vehicles powered by natural gas

or electricity the high initial purchase cost is likely to be a significant barrier to widespread consumer acceptance the report says.

Natural gas vehicles were considered but their greenhouse gas emissions are too high for the 2050 goal.

and other industries fueled by coal natural gas and oil. Capturing and sequestering those emissions could play a significant role in curbing global warming.

and in fact require natural gas to operate. Following the 2012 negative-emissions workshop GCEP issued an international request for proposals to develop net-negative carbon emissions technologies.

#Global natural gas boom alone wont slow climate changea new analysis of global energy use economics

and the climate shows that without new climate policies expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term according to a study appearing today in Nature.

Because natural gas emits half the carbon dioxide of coal many people hoped the recent natural gas boom could help slow climate change

--and according to government analyses natural gas did contribute partially to a decline in U s. carbon dioxide emissions between 2007 and 2012.

But in the long run according to this study a global abundance of inexpensive natural gas would compete with all energy sources--not just higher-emitting coal

Inexpensive natural gas would also accelerate economic growth and expand overall energy use. The effect is that abundant natural gas alone will do little to slow climate change said lead author Haewon Mcjeon an economist at the Department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Global deployment of advanced natural gas production technology could double or triple the global natural gas production by 2050

but greenhouse gas emissions will continue to grow in the absence of climate policies that promote lower carbon energy sources.

Thinking Globallyrecent advances in gas production technology based on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing--also known as fracking--have led to bountiful low-cost natural gas.

Because gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal some researchers have linked the natural gas boom to recent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United states

. But could these advanced technologies also have an impact on emissions beyond North america and decades into the future?

and policy experts led by PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute gathered at a workshop in Cambridge Maryland in April 2013 to consider the long-term impact of an expansion of the current natural gas boom on the rest of the world.

and projected what the world would be like in 2050 with and without a global natural gas boom.

Swapping out coal for natural gas in a simple model would cut greenhouse gas emissions a result many people expected to see.

â#¢Natural gas replacing coal would reduce carbon emissions. But due to its lower cost natural gas would also replace some low-carbon energy such as renewable or nuclear energy.

Overall changes result in a smaller reduction than expected due to natural gas replacing these other low-carbon sources.

In a sense natural gas would become a larger slice of the energy pie. â#¢Abundant less expensive natural gas would lower energy prices across the board leading people to use more energy overall.

In addition inexpensive energy stimulates the economy which also increases overall energy use. Consequently the entire energy pie gets bigger. â#¢The main component of natural gas methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

During production and distribution some methane inevitably escapes into the atmosphere. The researchers considered both high and low estimates for this so-called fugitive methane.

The combined effect of the three the scientists found is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production

Advances in hydraulic fracturing put trillions of dollars'worth of previously unreachable oil and natural gas within humanity's grasp.

but extracting natural gas with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling compares well with conventional energy sources the study finds.

but when natural gas is used in place of coal or nuclear fuel to generate electricity it saves water.

but cheap abundant natural gas may limit their deployment as new sources of electricity. On the other hand fracked gas requires less than a hundredth the water of corn ethanol per unit of energy.

But when natural gas replaces coal as a fuel for generating electricity the benefits to air quality include lower carbon dioxide emissions than coal and almost none of the mercury sulfur dioxide or ash.

which are made from nonrenewable sources such as petroleum or natural gas. Imidazolium-based ionic liquids effectively and efficiently dissolve biomass and represent a remarkable platform for biomass pretreatment

Recyclable material absorbs 82 percent of its weight in carbon dioxiderice University scientists have created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads.

Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel. Development of cost-effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels

Traditionally carbon dioxide has been removed from natural gas to meet pipelines'specifications. 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. When the pressure is released the carbon dioxide spontaneously depolymerizes

or use it for enhanced oil recovery to further the release of oil and natural gas. Or they can package

Methane ethane and propane molecules that make up natural gas may try to stick to the carbon but the growing polymer chains simply push them off he said.

and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United Statesâ#said Howarth who explains in an upcoming journal article that Earth may reach the point of no return

Natural gas â#that once seemingly promising link between the era of oil and coal to the serenity of sustainable solar wind and water power â#is a major source of atmospheric methane due to widespread

â#with another like natural gas will not suffice as an approach to take on global warming. Rather we should embrace the technologies of the 21st century

#By itself, abundant shale gas unlikely to alter climate projectionswhile natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions

If natural gas is abundant and less expensive it will encourage greater natural gas consumption and less of fuels such as coal renewables and nuclear power.

The net effect on the climate will depend on whether the greenhouse emissions from natural gas--including carbon dioxide

and methane--are lower or higher than emissions avoided by reducing the use of those other energy sources.

Most evidence indicates that natural gas as a substitute for coal in electricity production gasoline in transport and electricity in buildings decreases greenhouse gases.

But natural gas production and consumption has higher emissions than renewables and nuclear power. Over the range of scenarios that we examine abundant natural gas by itself is neither a climate hero nor a climate villain said Richard Newell Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and director of the Duke university Energy Initiative.

The findings are published in a special issue of Environmental science and Technology Understanding the Risks of Unconventional Shale Gas Development.

Natural gas from shale formations is favored by proponents as a cleaner inexpensive replacement for fuels such as coal

We find that so far increased natural gas has taken mostly the place of coal but looking forward there also may be increased consumption for sectors such as industry as well as some degree of displacement of zero-emission sources such as renewables

one where natural gas production and prices follow a reference case scenario and another where increased shale gas production lowers prices

If broad climate policy is enacted having abundant natural gas could be very helpful by making it cheaper for society to achieve climate goals Newell said.

If natural gas is expensive then it will be more costly to switch away from fuels that have higher greenhouse gas emissions such as coal and oil.

But keeping methane emissions low is essential to maximizing the potential benefits of natural gas. The climate benefits of natural gas are reduced

if there are a lot of methane emissions but while recent evidence suggests methane emissions may be higher than the EPA currently estimates it's not clear how this new information will affect those estimates Raimi said.

but even if methane emissions from natural gas systems are significantly higher than current EPA estimates we did not find this significantly alters the impact of abundant natural gas on long-term national or global greenhouse gas emissions pathways.

The Southeast is a major energy producer of coal crude oil and natural gas. Decreased water availability exacerbated by population growth

and human-made leaks of natural gases before they are released into the atmosphere and cause global warming according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

and propane found in natural gas. It was thought originally that the ability to metabolize methane and other gaseous alkanes such as propane was carried out by different groups of bacteria.

because it means that one type of bacteria can mop up the components of natural gas very efficiently

and reduce pollution The findings could help mitigate the effects of the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere from both natural gas seeps in the environment

Natural gas from geological sources contains methane as well as substantial quantities of ethane propane and butane. We have shown that one microbe can grow on both methane and propane at a similar rate.

This is very important for environments exposed to natural gas either naturally or through human activity. These microbes may play an important role in mitigating the effects of methane

and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide in crude oil and natural gas while they're still in the ground.

Crude oil and natural gas inherently contain hydrogen sulfide which gives off a rotten egg smell. Even a 1 percent trace of sulfur turns oil into what's known as sour crude

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

According to the paper's authors most of the energy used during corn production comes from the use of natural gas

The research offers new perspective on evolutionary biology microbiology and the production of natural gas and may shed light on climate change agriculture and human health.

Methane is the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas. This innovative work demonstrates the importance of a new global regulatory system in methanogens said William Whitman a professor of microbiology at the University of Georgia who is familiar with the study

The same process allows natural gas production from agricultural residues a renewable resource. Methanogens also play an important role in agriculture

Methane is emitted by natural sources such as wetlands and human activities such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock.

The more you can get along without oil and natural gas, the better. Your goal should be to imagine how your children

and natural gas to grow, process and transport. The whole food distribution chain in the United states is on average 1, 500 miles long,

which are made from oil and natural gas. Figure out a low-fuel way to get some compost and manure,

since we all know that the commercial meat industry is massively reliant on petroleum and natural gas.

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