Tag: natural gas

Natural gas power plants can use about 20% less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system converts natural gas and sunlight into a more energy-rich fuel called syngas, which power plants can […]

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World CNG, one of the nation’s leaders in natural gas vehicle conversions, will expand into new markets and boost cost savings for customers after receiving $5 million from a private investment fund.

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California is sitting on a massive amount of shale oil and could become the next oil boom state. But only if the industry can get the stuff out of the ground without upsetting the state’s powerful environmental lobby. Running from Los Angeles to San Francisco, California’s Monterey Shale is thought to contain more oil than […]

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The International Energy Association (IEA), which advises industrialized nations on their energy policies, said the global energy map “is being redrawn by the resurgence in oil and gas production in the United States.” A shale-oil boom will thrust the U.S. ahead of Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by 2020, and within just […]

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The European Parliament’s Committees on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Environment, Public Health and Food Safety voted in September on their respective draft reports on the environmental impact of shale gas and shale oil extraction.  A large majority of the members of the ENVI Committee supported the resolution, while the members of the ITRE […]

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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has some surprisingly strong statements about fracking: It is not true that fracking causes earthquakes. Gas contamination of tapwater has never been associated with hydraulic fracturing. Fracking has lead to pollution in rivers. Fracking is not a threat to water supplies. Here is the source:  Michigan Department of Environmental […]

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The U.S. Energy Information Agency reported that U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions from energy use were significantly down in the first quarter of 2012.  Emissions fell to 1992 levels when compared against other first quarters when energy demand for fossil fuel heat is high. CO2 emissions during the first quarter of 2012, according to the US EIA, […]

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A WCTA White Paper:  J. Thomas Ranken, Washington Clean Technology Alliance, July 2012. Impact on the Northwest Washington State produces no natural gas.  Yet business opportunities and jobs are growing for the suppliers of technology, products, and services to natural gas extraction companies. WaterTectonics is an Everett-based company that specializes in water cleaning systems including […]

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A WCTA White Paper:  J. Thomas Ranken, Washington Clean Technology Alliance, May 2012. See part 1 here. Changes are on the Way… Natural gas already plays an important role in all sectors of the economy except transportation.  It is already used widely to generate electricity and to heat water and spaces in industrial, commercial, and […]

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Source: Eduard Gismatullin, Bloomberg Businessweek, January 25, 2012 The economies of the poor nations of Eastern Africa will feel a change from the development that is taking its claim their land and waters. Off the coast of Mozambique, Eni SpA and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation found a gas field 36 times more valuable than the nation’s […]

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