Natural Gas offers a century worth of home grown fuel. As the popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak in Egypt demonstrates again, political and social conditions in the Middle East can change quickly, and unpredictably. Given that, does it make sense for the world’s largest economy to be so dependent on an energy source — oil [...]
Existing gas-powered generators can reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector by 10%. What if the near-term solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions actually began with the increased use of fossil fuels? This is a real possibility because using natural gas to generate energy results in much lower emissions of carbon dioxide than does using [...]
Natural Gas Processing How it works: The natural gas that you use to cook, heat your home, and make hot water for bathing is made almost entirely of methane. Natural gas is concentrated in natural gas fields, and is tapped by drilling wells, essentially long narrow holes in the ground. Natural gas is gathered from [...]
