Its sales were also hurt after General Motors and Volkswagen rolled out traditional gas burning, yet price-competitive entry-level models.
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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.
Coal-burning power stations have cut output significantly, while gas-burning has surged ahead, faster than renewables.
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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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 in contrast to the situation in electricity production, where gas-burning plants are cheaper to build than coal-burning ones.
It accelerated faster than a human runner or a golf cart, but it was easily slower than a gas-burning car.
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Engineers have built a contraption of water heater size that strips hydrogen out of natural gas while burning the carbon to provide heat for the home.
Converting coal to gas before burning it is plausible, but finding an economical way to dispose of the carbon dioxide besides venting it is, to put it mildly, an ambitious goal.
Some of the 15 individually decorated accommodations feature original canopy beds, plaid blankets, and natural wood accents, and all rooms come with wi-fi, soft beds, gas-burning fireplaces and views of the countryside.
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.
Chancellor George Osborne has hinted he wants a new generation of gas-burning stations, partly because he's no enthusiast for wind turbines, but also because ambitions for new nuclear are being undermined by cost and uncertainty.
For days natural gas fires have been burning from ruptured gas lines after Hurricane Sandy ripped up the houses and businesses attached to them.
Importing fossil fuel is one solution, but the environmentally minded Swedes are unhappy about the greenhouse-gas implications of burning more coal, oil and natural gas.
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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Gas is a hydrocarbon, albeit the cleanest, so burning gas releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas produced by the burning of fuels, including gas, oil, wood and coal.
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Rising gas prices tell people to think twice about burning scarce gas for a Sunday drive in the country.
In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, burning plastic is equivalent to burning fossil fuels, says Friends of the Earth (FOE).
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.
When Martinez walked into the upstairs master bedroom, , he found the gas fireplace was burning, the television was on and music coming from the CD player.
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.
Mr. Venezia was one of the few survivors of the Sonderkommando, or special units, in charge of emptying the gas chambers and burning the corpses during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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.
But there's no denying that burning natural gas (methane, that is) produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than burning coal.
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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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.
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