To summarize a conversation that is happening in the comment to my post called Bans on Fracking: Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty supports fracking insofar as every kilowatt-hour of energy that doesn’t come from natural gas will come from coal, which …
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Coal and Natural Gas
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, Bullish on Renewable Energy, Coal and Natural Gas, energy policy, overall economics of energy, tipping point exponential growth of solar and wind energy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to overturn our federal government’s limits on power plant pollution, Union of Concerned Scientists
Bans on Fracking
With his characteristically lucid writing style, frequent commenter BreathOnTheWind asks me to clarify my position on fracking. It’s largely the result of conversations I’ve had with energy analyst Glenn Doty and other senior scientists. I’m convinced that: • Despite widespread …
Tagged with: Bans on Fracking, fracking perpetuates the overall concept of fossil fuel extraction and consumption, natural gas acts to promote the integration of variable resources (solar and wind) into the grid-mix, natural gas derived from fracking offsets huge amounts of coal, no evidence that fracking causes harm
