Gas is a hydrocarbon, albeit the cleanest, so burning gas releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Sempra contracted with Mexico's electricity monopoly to overhaul the plant to run on clean-burning gas delivered by a 23-mile pipeline it built from the border.
John McCain made an unusual campaign stop this week, at a rally for motorcycle enthusiasts whose roaring machines filled the air with the fumes of burning gas.
The campaign group said that there were more efficient methods of burning gas for power which would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and could create more jobs.
Fueling cars with compressed gas, powering electric cars with electrons made from burning gas, will help reduce oil demand both here and in the rest of the world.
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We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.
Dr Alamaro wants to use a gas-burning, rather than a coal- or oil-burning plant, because the exhaust produced by burning natural gas is free from sulphur dioxide, which plants hate.
While both coal and gas play important roles in our energy future, and there is another agenda to regulate coal-fired power plants out of existence, the claim is contrary to the well-accepted fact that the greenhouse gas impacts of burning natural gas are less than coal.
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Rising gas prices tell people to think twice about burning scarce gas for a Sunday drive in the country.
But there's no denying that burning natural gas (methane, that is) produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than burning coal.
Factories can also use this gas directly by burning them in gas engines.
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Gas flaring (burning off natural gas released by oil drilling) in the delta produces 70 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year -- "a substantial proportion of worldwide greenhouse gas, " according to the World Bank.
This is partially being done by switching coal-fired plants to the cleaner-burning natural gas.
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Taking the place of coal will be clean-burning natural gas and clean, green solar and wind power.
China's energy companies have been aggressive in their dealings abroad to secure access to cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity.
Also, burning wood releases three times more carbon into the atmosphere than burning natural gas, per unit energy generated, said Booth.
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Similarly, when Margaret Thatcher broke the British coal miners' unions in 1985, Britain was able to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas.
For days natural gas fires have been burning from ruptured gas lines after Hurricane Sandy ripped up the houses and businesses attached to them.
Contamination worries from local governments due to hydraulic fracturing and ongoing concerns about the climate impacts from burning natural gas continue to hamper development efforts.
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Most of this decrease was due directly to the decreasing use of coal in power plants and the increase in combustion of clean-burning natural gas.
Clean-burning natural gas, he said, will serve as the bridge fuel to take us from reliance on oil and coal to alternatives like solar and wind.
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While that may be true, the studies investigated the total carbon emissions created in drilling and fracking a well and collecting, processing, and burning the gas.
Enterprises are being pressed to change over from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas and methane, and to be more energy-efficient by modernizing their plant equipment in the switch.
Last year, more than 150 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle produced legislation providing incentives to use clean-burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil.
The invention of new ways to extract gas and oil out or shale formations means we now have hundreds of years of supplies of low cost, clean burning natural gas.
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While 95% of new power plants are designed to run on cleaner-burning natural gas, the U.S. still gets 52% of its electricity from the 1.1 billion tons of coal mined here every year.
Last year, 30% of power in the U.S. came from burning natural gas, up from 19% in 2005, driven by drilling technologies that have unlocked large and inexpensive new supplies of the fuel.
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The disastrous BP oil spill has raised awareness of the risk of offshore drilling, and is likely to create renewed interest in abundant and clean-burning natural gas as an alternative for many uses.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas produced by the burning of fuels, including gas, oil, wood and coal.
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Coal-burning power stations have cut output significantly, while gas-burning has surged ahead, faster than renewables.
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