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Posted By: Sarah Battaglia
- Energy Consultant, Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc.
On: May 6, 2013
On: May 6, 2013
Natural gas has been a valuable source of energy for hundreds of years, but over the last decade or so, the use of this resource has intensified. In its early stages, natural gas was mainly used for street lights and powering a small number of homes. After improving technology and more...
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Posted By: Kirk Edelman
- Chief Executive Officer, Project & Structured Finance - Energy President and CEO, Siemens Financial Services, Inc.
On: May 6, 2013
On: May 6, 2013
Pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio or tune into the nightly news broadcast and you're bound to hear a reference to shale gas and its impact on the shifting global energy map. “The United States is enjoying an energy bonanza thanks to shale gas, making it a magnet more...
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Soot is defined as the particulate matter released by the burning of fossil fuels, mainly coal. It is often a black substance that is deemed harmful because the dark particles cause warming by absorbing heat in the air, it will also enhance melting when they darken snow and ice on more...
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Not long ago I read an article on the site OilPrice.Com in which the author claimed that President Barack Obama lied when he stated that there was a shortage of oil onshore or in the waters around the United States (U.S.). Before continuing, let me state that I do not more...
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Since 2007, when vast amounts of shale gas in the United States have been tapped, US natural gas production has significantly grown by 20% causing sharp fall in Henry Hub's natural gas spot price. Consequently, this turned industry's attention to profitability of shale gas extraction. In the middle of this more...
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"The Truth About Oil" is the title of a long and fairly useful article that was published in the April 9 (2012) issue of Time. I think that I can -- and in reality often have -- done a lot better, but the author of that article (Brian Walsh) has more...
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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a surprisingly controversial topic. Coal interests and climate change deniers insist, predictably, that it is unnecessary and would create an intolerable drag on the economy. But CCS is also opposed by some militant environmentalists. Their position is that CCS would be a band-aid to more...
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In part 1, we looked at the likely impact of the recent EPA rules for greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. We also looked at some of the technology options for carbon capture from new coal-fired plants, and how they might affect the cost of compliance. Now we need more...
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The EPA recently issued a plan that would impose limits on emission of greenhouse gases from new power plants. The proposed limit for CO2 is 1000 pounds per megawatt-hour (MWh) -- a value easily met by natural gas power plants but impossible for traditional coal-fired plants without carbon capture and more...
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Saudi Arabia is once again the biggest producer of oil in the world, surpassing Russia to regain its title. Saudi Arabia happens to be one of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes in the world. The Economist magazine ranked Saudi Arabia 161st out of 167 countries in their most recent more...
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