Carnegie Mellon: Use Natural Gas for Electricity, Not CNG/LNG

摘要

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have con-cluded in a new study that surplus U.S. natural gas should be used for electricity generation rather than turned into com-pressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transport vehicles. In a research paper published in Environmental Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon doctoral student Aranya Venkatesh and her faculty co-authors report that life cycle greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from natural gas are un-certain, ranging about 17%.