Posted by MarkB_MI on January 04, 2015 at 04:23:46 from (70.194.2.125):
In Reply to: Math question, CO2? posted by George Marsh on January 03, 2015 at 16:13:21:
George, I'm not going to run through your calculations, although I think your conclusions are right.
When you look at the total carbon footprint, there are a number of areas where natural gas has a big advantage over coal and a lesser advantage over LPG. The main one is transportation: Even though it takes a lot of energy to pump gas through pipelines, that's done by relatively clean NG-fired compressors. Coal is transported by train, sometimes thousands of miles to generation plants. Coal from Wyoming is shipped to Nebraska, then back to Colorado due to lack of north-south rail capacity. And of course transmission losses of electricity waste a huge amount of generated power.
One of the greatest crimes of our time is the natural gas that's being wasted from the Bakken oil fields.
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