With the R-22 price spike HDSN can now pay contractors for the dirty gas thereby getting supply to clean up and decreasing the amount of gas that gets into the atmosphere.
Prior to the EPA phase out the economics were not attractive enough to promote wide spread reclamation Despite the fact that it is illegal, many many contractors would and did vent the gas into the air rather then capture and reclaim it because in many cases they would have to pay to get rid of the dirty gas.
The future of a technology that converts dirty cheap coal into clean natural gas for transportation fuel was underscored last night by a Chinese investment in Synthesis Energy Systems(SYMX, NASDAQ), a small Houston company that holds a valuable license for this transforming technology.
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Oil and gas production is heavy, dirty and sometimes smelly.
One plus is that, apart from the possibly dirty business of generating it, the gas is the cleanest fuel on the planet, combining with oxygen to create H2O, pure water vapor.
For those concerned about carbon emissions, that's half way to a good news story, as gas-burning is less dirty than coal, but it's still a long way short of good for the environment.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
Nevertheless, he thinks it can capitalize on a shift in the global energy business toward liquefied natural gas, especially as China seeks alternatives to dirty coal-fired power plants and Japan trims its nuclear fleet.
But the indictment makes no mention of a plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" or blow up apartment buildings with natural gas -- allegations made previously in public statements and court arguments by Justice Department officials.
There's a lot of dirty disappointment in the hunt chicken bones, a gas receipt, used Kleenex.
The emissions they seek to regulate are not dirty, sooty carbon, but carbon dioxide, that harmless gas that we exhale with every breadth.
Now Robertson was betting his entire stake on coal, a dirty fuel that was supposed to be eclipsed by oil and natural gas long ago.
Now Robertson was betting his entire stake on coal, a dirty fuel that was supposed to have been eclipsed by oil and natural gas long ago.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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What does a dirty-fuel player like Consol want with a clean-burning fuel like natural gas?
And as indigenous supplies fall, a looming shortfall in electricity generation (elderly nuclear plants and dirty coal-fired stations must soon be closed) will have to be met largely through more gas, which already provides 40% of Britain's power.
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