Natural Gas Market Heats Up

[jpak]

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-23230447.htm

With all due respect to "Jumpin' Jack Flash," natural gas is the real gas, gas, gas.

That's because gas is by far the cleanest fossil fuel. The actual product is made up mostly of methane extracted from underground wells. When burned, it gives off nearly zero harmful pollutants.

The main job for any gas distribution utility is getting the gas safely to end users. With public concerns growing over climate change, natural gas offers a cleaner, greener option than coal- and nuclear-fired power plants. (See related story, this page.)

Older coal plants spew toxic fumes and carbon emissions which add to global warming. Nuclear power produces radioactive waste that can be hazardous for thousands of years. That's why industry insiders describe natural gas as "America's bridge to the energy future," when more renewable sources of wind, solar and geothermal power will be available.

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[bbinacan]

1. I guess I'll have some job security.

I do land acquisition for infrastructure. Right now I'm working on an interstate pipeline that is harvesting gas from the Barnett Shale near Ft. Worth, Texas. It's estimated that there is 39 trillion cubic feet of gas in this area.

[NNadir]

2. Natural gas is responsible for 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh3co2.xls

Only is some head-in-the-sand fantasy world is such a vast environmental pollutant considered clean.

Personally I have always recognized that the anti-nuke cult is all about dangerous fossil fuel apologetics, from Amory Lovins, to Putin's dog Gerhard Schroeder, to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the refrain is the same.

Apparently there is NOT ONE of these apologists who is even remotely aware that methane - much of which is dumped into the atmosphere by dangerous natural gas leaks and accidents - is the second largest contributor to climate change.

The external cost of dangerous natural gas is reported in many places in the scientific literature.

In any case, the internal cost is rising because dangerous natural gas is peaking.

[jpak]

5. I heard people that live in "up-scale" NJ suburbs burn $3500 worth of natural gas each year

to heat their yuppie Walmart car culture homes.

Is that true???

[NNadir]

6. No. Like most cult talk, it's nonsense.

I hear that in Sable Island dependent Maine, it takes two hundred acres of clear cuts to heat the dining room for dinners for 50.

But I couldn't care less actually what trust fund brats do. They're generally the kind of assholes who can't count. They're the sort of people who either ignore billion metric ton quantities of dangerous fossil fuel waste or declare it "clean."

It is, as usual, unsurprising to find anti-nukes minimizing the risks of dangerous fossil fuel waste, dangerous fossil fuel terrorism, dangerous fossil fuel war, and dangerous fossil fuel depletion.

How's the ole' "clean coal" project in Germany coming along by the way? Any worries about it now that South Africa can't dig coal fast enough?

No?

They couldn't care less over at Mom's estates?

Why am I not suprised?

Speaking of Germany, how's the ignorant anti-nuke Schroeder faring on the 300,000 Euros per year that Pooty Poot gives him for promoting dangerous natural gas? Was he able to afford a first class ticket to dinner at Mom's, or did he have to fly coach on little Dickie Branson's biofueled jet. You know about Dickie Branson's biofueled jet, the one they ground up Sumatran Tiger guts to shove into the fuel tank?

[jpak]

7. Maine is not dependent on Sable Island gas - southern New England is

This winter, Sable Island gas supplies were interrupted for several days putting two 500 MW gas-fired plants in Maine off-line.

What happened in Maine?

nothing - no blackouts, no brownouts.

Those plants were built to export electricity to southern New England - their electricity was not needed in Maine because half of our electricity is produced by hydro and biomass.

Now.

I heard that someone built a molten salt breeder reactor in NJ - in his apartment - is that true???

[eppur_se_muova]

3. "nearly zero harmful pollutants" ... W. T. F. !!

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

Has anyone at CNN heard of CO2 ?? Or are they just unbelievers ?

[pscot]

4. Clueless News Network

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