Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many climate activists and clean energy enthusiasts warn against the continued use of, and investment in, natural gas infrastructure, insisting it isn’t a substitute for clean energy. should not plan to maintain its current fossil-based natural gas systems indefinitely. What Is Renewable Natural Gas?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

DTE Gas Company , a subsidiary of Michigan’s largest utility, is expanding its natural gas network to the area, giving over 1,000 homes and businesses the choice to switch to natural gas. Natural gas is more climate-friendly than the propane and wood used in much of the region, according to DTE.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report. Tags: methane fracking venting emissions Dr. Robert Howarth American Petroleum Institute

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carbon capture has never been deployed on gas-fired power stations at such a scale before — and a senior Equinor executive has made frank admissions around the technical challenges such projects face. This clean-burning fuel is made from natural gas, with carbon capture technology used to trap emissions released during the process.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. .

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Developed with research from the University of Western Australia, this method utilizes methane gas, breaking it into hydrogen and solid graphite through a chemical reaction catalyzed by iron ore. Furthermore, the use of biomethane as a methane source presents an opportunity to repurpose waste into valuable clean energy outputs.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

A lot of the methane simply dissolved in the surrounding water of the southern Baltic Sea following the September 2022 explosion, according to measurements taken by the University of Gothenburg, and reported in Nature Scientific Reports. But much of the methane never reached the surface and dissolved in the water instead.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 18, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Shared Duty: National, International Oil Companies Bound Together by Methane Obligations To deliver on broader climate pledges, industry must engage national oil companies in its efforts. This includes addressing methane emissions and flaring. in their upstream operations by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

But, unfortunately, green hydrogen is not yet widely used, because the production of grey hydrogen from natural gas is much cheaper. Moreover, it’s not trivial how we could store hydrogen and as an indirect greenhouse gas, hydrogen is not as clean as it looks. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

MIT Study Highlights Lesser Climate Impact of Hydrogen Leaks Compared to Natural Gas A recent study conducted by MIT researchers sheds new light on the climate implications of hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas. The researchers found that hydrogens climate impact is approximately one-third of methanes.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

As you cruise through this tiny world, you pass more than 400,000 nitrogen molecules, 100,000 oxygen molecules, 219 carbon dioxide molecules, before you find what you’re looking for: a single molecule of methane. Methane is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood greenhouse gasses on Earth. methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the expansion of the liquified natural gas export capacity along the Gulf Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . Image: Slide from Zapantis presentation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

After conducting a series of experiments, they obtained synthetic gas (aka syngas) with a high abundance of hydrogen. Gasification allows huge amounts of waste to be converted to syngas, which is composed of several gases including hydrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

Another pressing issue is methane leakage. During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere. This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Growing demand for natural gas will start to be curbed in the coming years, but more needs to be done to meet net zero goals, IEA report warns. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6 The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Given water is the main feedstock for hydrogen production, the boom in the hydrogen market presents a range of opportunities for water and wastewater businesses, a report from BlueTech Research has found. Conventionally, hydrogen has been produced via steam methane reforming (SMR) using natural gas as the feedstock.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 17, 2024

Green Hydrogen: Cost and Feasibility Blue hydrogen and green hydrogen present distinct cost structures, production processes, and environmental impacts. Blue hydrogen, derived from natural gas through steam methane reforming (SMR), currently costs approximately $2-5/kg.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

These findings present a significant leap toward a cleaner, more efficient hydrogen economy. Traditionally, hydrogen is produced by heating natural gas (steam methane reforming), a process that operates at around 1000C and emits substantial carbon dioxide9 to 12 kilograms of CO2 for every kilogram of hydrogen.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Decarbonizing Oil and Gas Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for more than one quarter of the warming we are experiencing today, and global oil and gas production is a major source of methane emissions. 19 of the top 20 publicly traded companies have set methane targets. can open the door.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen. . “ Blue hydrogen was a way for the gas industry to continue for decades. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A session called Funding the New Energy Paradigm: Innovative Financing Mechanisms & Clever Capital Structures will be presented during the POWERGEN Leadership Summi t in Dallas, Texas on January 28, 2022. . The push and pull of supply and demand. of total global emissions. Stepping back and taking a breath.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

In June, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey asked the state's Department of Public Utilities to open an investigation into the future of natural gas companies in the state. “We don’t get to 2050 unless the lion’s share of those — 75 percent, 80 percent — are off natural gas entirely.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2020

If it works, the unusual combination of a newly formed municipal utility, large electricity customers as anchor tenants, and a microgrid developer to fund and manage the solar, battery and natural gas-powered system could provide a new statewide model for towns and cities looking for reliable, clean energy options. MW of solar, 27.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. But the oil and gas industry is pushing hard for increased use of “blue” hydrogen. ExxonMobil Corp.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

New data, produced exclusively for The Guardian and DeSmog, found that a single gas field in the United Arab Emirates run by state oil firm Adnoc flared more gas than all oil and gas fields in Norway last year. Flaring also allows the escape of some unburned methane gas, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Leaks from generation and distribution facilities have provided one of the embarrassing backstories to the story of natural gas, something that – it has become clear – is far more widespread than was always claimed. In the UK, the blending of hydrogen into the gas grid is starting to appear on the horizon. Generating a stir.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, the whole issue can be sidestepped by running a ship on liquefied natural gas (LNG), but more recently a problem of “methane slip” has been identified, with the difficulties arising from unburnt methane. A typical system comprises a stack-mounted analyser, an integral calibration module and a control unit.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A group of natural gas companies and utilities in Colorado formed a front group to oppose the state’s push towards electrifying homes and businesses, spreading misinformation about the cost of electric heating while also promoting false solutions to lock in the ongoing use of natural gas. Citing the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The growing engagement by oil and gas companies has sharpened concerns among climate advocates that industry is skewing the UK’s carbon capture strategy to justify building new gas-fired power plants — prolonging demand for natural gas, a source of planet-heating carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. So natural gas supply chain emissions would need to be reduced and carbon capture rates improved to reduce emissions further. Full paper is here: [link].

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In recent years, the industry shifted from persistent science denial to presenting itself as a leader of climate solutions, embodying Merriam-Webster’s word of the year “gaslighting.”. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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