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Hydrogen Production With A Low Carbon Footprint

R-Squared Energy

To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen.

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Dominion Sells Gas Business and Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipeline, in Clean Energy Pivot

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utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. billion including debt, giving a major boost to its goal to reach net-zero emissions of carbon and methane by 2050.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

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A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers. There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective.

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

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Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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The GOP Climate Push That Mostly Leaves Out Climate

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Bill Johnson (R-OH) has introduced legislation to “streamline” the approval of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. emissions declines are the result of natural gas, not solar and wind. “In Methane arguably wipes out the perceived benefit of gas over coal. In a video posted on Twitter, he says U.S.