The Marcellus Shale, for instance, has between 168 trillion and 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making it the second largest natural gas source in the world.
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As a fuel cell, it also needs fuel to run, in this case natural gas or another source of methane (such as landfill gas or biogas from anaerobic digesters).
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Oil and natural gas move from source to market, in pipelines or ships, at around 10 to 20 mph.
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And yet what is worrying is that the big firms are largely ignoring natural gas as a source of hydrogen.
The bill would allow for the early payment of the winter fuel allowance to people whose homes are not connected to the mains gas grid and whose principal source of fuel is home fuel oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas.
President Barack Obama has strongly endorsed natural gas as a clean energy source, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said more natural gas is critical for the city to improve air quality and public health.
However, this form of energy requires expensive plants to turn the gas into liquid at source.
Across the nation the opportunities to source natural gas, buy vehicles, refuel, and drive NGVs are tremendous.
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The center's David Wheeler, who led the project, says the information should be useful to consumers, investors, politicians and activists who will now find it easier to track greenhouse gas emissions to their source.
Its primary commercial source is natural gas, which has more efficient and beneficial uses.
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They generate electricity from coal and wind, but their largest source is natural gas.
Power plants are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
And we know for a fact that coal plants are the major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
The agreement encompasses the formation of a new, equally-owned joint venture to source and market gas in India.
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Oil sands projects are the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas pollution in Canada.
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The McMoran Exploration portfolio is expected to provide a large, long-term and low cost source of natural gas production.
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The good news is that a huge, 100-year source of cheap gas will make plenty of winners as well.
Because the wind was blowing south at the time, the source of the gas could not have been one of South Korea's nuclear plants.
The new EPA figures still show natural gas operations as the leading source of methane emissions in the U.S., at about 145 million metric tons in 2011.
Chesapeake is looking at natural gas as a potential energy source to fuel its rigs due to the cost benefits and the environment friendly nature of the fuel.
Among them: an agreement for the United States to assist China in improving its "clean coal technology" at its growing number of coal-fired power plans, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Backed by Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, Picarro has sold analyzers to climate scientists and governments in China and California, which are creating networks of the machines to detect the source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Although the United States has made great strides in reducing pollution in recent decades, we are still the world's second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, with emissions per capita four times higher than China's.
Speaking to the Today programme, Phil Bentley said that volatility on the international energy markets meant price rises had had to be made, and the trend would continue unless a new source of cheap gas was discovered.
Effective July 1, 2011, any new source of greenhouse gas emissions that exceeds 100, 000 tons of CO2 per year or plant modification adding 75, 000 tons annually, will be subject to permit approval based upon undefined case-by-case "best available control technology" assessments.
The proposal lumps gas turbines and coal boilers into the same source category, and it holds coal power plants to a CO2 performance standard that nearly all natural gas combined cycle plants and exactly zero commercial coal power plants can meet.
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The oil and gas sector currently represents a major source of economic growth and jobs.
They source all their external gas on a far cheaper basis between the Atlantic and Pacific Basins.
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But I believe because of increasing environmental pressures, natural gas will gradually become the preferred source of hydrocarbons.
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