G20 and Obama Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Brazil Open's World's First Sugarcane-based Ethanol Power Plant
How Corporations can Reduce Carbon Emissions
Finland Gives OK To Nuclear Power Expansion
China's New Eco-tower Expected to be World's most Energy-Efficient Tower; Aims to be Net-Z
Algae Biofuel May Have a Larger Carbon Footprint than Petroleum based Diesel
China Violates WTO Agreements with Cleantech Ambitions
Shell Oil Company Sues BP For Loss of Production/Profit due to Oil Spill
Rooftop Urban Farms Increase Rapidly in New York City
Geothermal Energy Keeps Oregon Town Toasty
Converting Greenhouse Gas Into Carbon Monoxide, a Useful Resource
Polluting Ships may actually Reduce Global Warming!
Oil Shock: Even Investors Want Out of Oil Sands Developments
Global Carbon Emissions Down 1.3% in 2009
Hydraulic Fracturing Environmental Concerns
Natural Gas a Bridge to a Lower Carbon Future?
Natural gas does not usually come to mind when thinking about a low carbon, sustainable energy future. However, a study released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seems to indicate that natural gas is likely to have a pivotal role in a changing energy economy. The MIT study sees natural gas as a type of bridge to an increasingly carbon-free energy future. The United States, along with Russia and the Middle East, has extensive natural gas reserves - much of it in the form of shale, a fossil fuel. The MIT study points out that shale could reach 40 percent of the energy market by 2040. This would include a move towards compressed natural gas-powered transportation. The relatively good news is that natural gas has about half the carbon footprint of coal, which is the source of most fossil-fuel driven electrical energy in the world. However, natural gas extraction does involve drilling that carries the threat of groundwater contamination. At least one MIT engineer believes the threat is “entirely manageable.” In light of similar safety assurances with offshore oil drilling, all natural gas extraction activities need to be carefully examined.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- G20 and Obama Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies
- Brazil Open's World's First Sugarcane-based Ethanol Power Plant
- How Corporations can Reduce Carbon Emissions
- Finland Gives OK To Nuclear Power Expansion
- China's New Eco-tower Expected to be World's most Energy-Efficient Tower; Aims to be Net-Z
- Algae Biofuel May Have a Larger Carbon Footprint than Petroleum based Diesel
- China Violates WTO Agreements with Cleantech Ambitions
- Shell Oil Company Sues BP For Loss of Production/Profit due to Oil Spill
- Rooftop Urban Farms Increase Rapidly in New York City
- Geothermal Energy Keeps Oregon Town Toasty
- Converting Greenhouse Gas Into Carbon Monoxide, a Useful Resource
- Polluting Ships may actually Reduce Global Warming!
- Oil Shock: Even Investors Want Out of Oil Sands Developments
- Global Carbon Emissions Down 1.3% in 2009
- Hydraulic Fracturing Environmental Concerns
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