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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/05/23/Na...ge-to-Nowhere/
The nice thing about natural gas is that it looks good on paper.
The bad thing about natural gas is that it is bad in reality.
Methane does far more damage in terms of GHG than CO2 and methane leaks from natural gas extraction. Of course much of this leaked gas never goes on the books. It's not extracted; it's not burned.... it just goes from the ground straight into the atmosphere and on paper that's just awesome. But we're still getting warmer.
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How does it leak? Sounds like a fixable problem. The US shale boom is relatively new as are a lot of the natural gas power plants. One would expect the technology to improve a lot over the next few years as more money is poured into it.