Wonderfuel gas

摘要

Forget coal, it's too dirty. Forget nuclear power, it's too expensive and controversial. Forget renewables, they're too unpredictable. To meet our energy needs and cut carbon emissions we need an abundant source of clean, cheap energy, available night and day and in all weathers.rnWe may be in luck. Natural gas is such a fuel, and it's sitting right under our noses in abundance. Predominantly methane, it's the cleanest-burning of all fossil fuels (see chart, below), so using gas rather than coal to generate electricity could halve greenhouse gas emissions from traditional coal-fired power plants.