Compressed natural gas

Gas Hydrates are a crystalline solid formed of water and gas, the gas is mostly methane. It looks and acts much like ice. It is important to study gas hydrate because it is a potential source of energy for human survival in the future as there is a critical need for a cleaner and viable source of energy (Sun et al., 2011). .It was earlier speculated that gas hydrate is only found in space but later research showed that it can be found on almost every continent on the earth (Mongillo, 2011). Gas…

to find an alternative source. Their main priority is ethanol. They are constantly trying to figure out if it will work, how much it is used right now, and if it will ever carry out the same jobs that gasoline can do. Ethanol will not be a viable gas alternative. Corn cannot be made fast enough to sustain the same level of usage as gasoline the production of ethanol is very expensive, and it creates more air pollution than the burning of oil. Corn prices are on the rise which would make…

systems that could have avoided the incident. The failures listed included "dodgy" cement, two valve failures, a pressure test misinterpretation, and no gas alarm, among a few others (Mullins). Supposedly the cement should have sealed the well, but it failed to do so as gas leaked towards the surface. The pipes also had a valve preventing the gas from traveling upwards, which didn't worked properly. The next mistake was a misinterpretation of a pressure test 50 minutes before the explosion,…

our energy consumption has increased rapidly. Most of this energy consumption is given by fossil fuels, for instance, coal, or natural gas. However, some research shows a questionable method of drawing out natural gas: Hydraulic fracturing or fracking, “the injection of fluid at high pressure into an underground rock formation in order to pen fissures and allow trapped gas or crude oil to flow through a pipe to a wellhead at surface” (). The technique of fracking has been known since the 1940s…

Hydraulic fracturing has become a very popular issue in the United States. Hydraulic fracturing, referred to as fracking, is a process used by natural gas producers to fracture the shale rock below Earth’s surface to produce natural gas that was once thought unreachable. The boom of natural gas has brought jobs and it has also made almost dead communities flourish with people. Although it produces satisfactory results some people do not agree with the process. Fracking is a dirty process that…

So removing coal isn’t an option, at least not without a gradual process and well thought out plan. Even then, coal mining creates jobs. Over 174,000 jobs are created by coal in the United States, and this number does not include jobs that are indirectly made possible which is in the tens of thousands. This information can be found on Sourcewatch’s article titled “Coal and Jobs in the United States”. And with the addition of scrubbers making coal a very clean process, why should we remove it?…

highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state that it is safe and “there…

largest and most innovative oil and gas company that will be around longer than Total, Exxon, Chevron, & BP. The company operates thousands of gas stations across the United States and recently started to research more about alternative energy. Phil Anderson informed us that Shell is very competitive and always has to “reshape the portfolio and back away from heavy Alaskan oil” and move toward integrated gas like British Gas. Shell recently merged with British Gas and Phil Anderson believes that…

Other times, strangers acquired shelter in barns and sheds. Still, in other instances people slept on the ground in the open air. Within a few years of the start of the oil boom hundred’s of new homes had been constructed. By 1914 the population of the town had already diminished to around twenty-eight hundred people, but it would never recede to the paltry forty to one hundred citizens it had been before the oil boom. In 1901, due to the many people living in town the streets and land…

The knowledge of the world is forever growing and we as a civilization or continually growing and need to provide ourselves with new cleaner sources of energy and the explorations of the natural resources just may help. But is the exploration of natural resources may not be the greatest of solutions for our current environment. Take the world today we run on coal and fossil fuels that damage the earth 's ecosystems put the plant at risk of being uninhabitable. Therefore a need arises to examine…