While natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide, tapping into the gas hydrates assessed in the study is not expected to affect global warming, said Brenda Pierce, coordinator for the USGS Energy Resources Program.
The demand for gas in power gen is increasing (coal to gas switching has been significant, and most new fossil power plants will be gas-fired).
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It also said emissions could be reduced by making wider use of low carbon fossil fuels like natural gas, and decarbonising exhaust gases from power plants.
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Methane(CH4) is both a fossil fuel(natural gas) AND a biofuel(biogas).
Methane is both a fossil fuel(natural gas) and a biofuel(biomethane).
Not so long ago, Mr. Gore was among the many environmentalists who deemed natural gas the fossil fuel of the future because it emits considerably less CO2 than coal or oil.
In my opinion, like solar energy, the greatest opportunity for the technology is in providing energy for small communities rather than as some attempt to preserve the energy status quo, which is simply unsustainable without fossil fuels, including gas.
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But they would not address the big problem with shale gas and all fossil fuels: the global warming they cause.
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For this combined population of 45 m people, they sought to test the benefits of "existing, readily acquirable technologies that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels".
Even though prices for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are stable or even falling, interest in the alternatives is high and rising.
First, all of these technologies are becoming less expensive each year with every prospect that one day they will be fully competitive on their own with existing fossil fuel plants or new natural gas plants.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
Today is Earth Day, and it is very likely that the fact that abundant fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal, are natural resources, and gifts to humanity from Mother Earth herself will be lost amid all the frightful doom and gloom predictions that will be launched by environmental activists and repeated by various media outlets.
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Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
The use of renewable energy sources will decrease the Army's fossil fuel consumption, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more assured energy supply.
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Hydrogen is a fuel that, like electricity, can be made from a variety of sources: fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, renewables, even nuclear power.
Oh, one final point: the idea that I might write the above because my financial interests are aligned with not wind power, with gas, coal or the fossil fuel industries.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
The parent of British Gas, it is exposed to fossil-fuel prices and keen to diversify.
For instance, if we are talking about natural gas, in this case, fossil methane, we are talking about a whole different ball game than coal.
It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 48% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 45% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
My (much smarter) brother Robert showed the House Natural Resources Committee on September 22 that federal subsidies related to fossil-fuel (mainly coal and natural gas) fired electricity are about 68 cents per million watts.
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The far North is seen by many oil and gas companies as the next frontier for fossil fuel exploration.
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Study after study has pegged energy efficiency as the lowest-cost way to curb fossil-fuel consumption and the resulting greenhouse-gas emissions.
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As the November election looms near, Team Obama is reaching out to oil and gas companies and encouraging them to develop fossil fuels.
Despite all the talk from the president, his administration will still provide substantial aid to oil and gas companies, as well as other fossil fuels.
In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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Natural gas is a nonrenewable carbon-producing fossil fuel.
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