http://israelity.com/2009/01/23/natural-gas-israel/ Life beyond the conflict Sun, 20 May 2012 18:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://israelity.com/2009/01/23/natural-gas-israel/comment-page-1/#comment-282233 Daniel Pedersen Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:41:09 +0000 http://israelity.com/?p=7759#comment-282233 While I agree with (almost) everything that Karin says, I think that she's slightly too critical of both electric cars and of natural gas as a fuel/ Electric cars: everything I've read indicates that driving an internal combustion vehicle will never be cleaner than an electric vehicle, regardless of the fuel burned to make the electricity. So any move to electric cars will improve local air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas: Any move to natural gas for generating electricity or for industry is a vast improvement over the current situation where 75% of electricity comes from coal and most of the industrial energy comes from diesel fuel (or worse). Natural gas emits far less air pollution (the stuff that makes us sick) and far fewer greenhouse gases than either coal or fuel, so any shift in that direction is a better environmental choice. Renewable (biogas) and non-fossil (solar, wind) fuels contribute a negligible amount to the current energy market, and even if we were to increase them 20-fold or more, we will still need reliable baseline power. Getting that from "clean" energy is still a LONG way off, but we have to start with it now in order to develop the technology to a point where we will be able to rely on it exclusively. So this new gas deposit is still very good news for the environment - so don;t knock it! -Daniel While I agree with (almost) everything that Karin says, I think that she’s slightly too critical of both electric cars and of natural gas as a fuel/
Electric cars: everything I’ve read indicates that driving an internal combustion vehicle will never be cleaner than an electric vehicle, regardless of the fuel burned to make the electricity. So any move to electric cars will improve local air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Natural gas: Any move to natural gas for generating electricity or for industry is a vast improvement over the current situation where 75% of electricity comes from coal and most of the industrial energy comes from diesel fuel (or worse). Natural gas emits far less air pollution (the stuff that makes us sick) and far fewer greenhouse gases than either coal or fuel, so any shift in that direction is a better environmental choice.
Renewable (biogas) and non-fossil (solar, wind) fuels contribute a negligible amount to the current energy market, and even if we were to increase them 20-fold or more, we will still need reliable baseline power. Getting that from “clean” energy is still a LONG way off, but we have to start with it now in order to develop the technology to a point where we will be able to rely on it exclusively.
So this new gas deposit is still very good news for the environment – so don;t knock it!
-Daniel

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