HEDGE YOUR ENERGY BETS

Natural gas is frequently cited as the ideal fossil-fuel bridge to a low-carbon future energy system. For a long time this looked environmentally attractive, although expensive, given the prevailing view that the United States would be a major importer of gas. In the past few years, shale gas has ch...

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Published in:Plant services 2012-09, Vol.32 (9), p.58-58
Main Author: Garforth, P
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Americas
Carbon
Natural gas
Pathways
Pictures
Shale
Vision
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Summary:Natural gas is frequently cited as the ideal fossil-fuel bridge to a low-carbon future energy system. For a long time this looked environmentally attractive, although expensive, given the prevailing view that the United States would be a major importer of gas. In the past few years, shale gas has changed all that. Plentiful supplies hold out the promise of decades of low-cost natural gas for America, along with visions of a painless pathway to a vastly lower carbon foot-print. A picture potentially as rosy as this probably deserves to be looked at in slightly more detail.
ISSN:0199-8013