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Latest from Team Pickens
Monday, March 01, 2010
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Image credit: Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Latest from Team Pickens
Monday, March 01, 2010
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Image credit: Chesapeake Energy CorporationMonday, March 01, 2010
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The Washington Post... one of the most influential newspapers in the United States and particularly on Capitol Hill - ran an editorial on Sunday titled: "A Natural Choice". The piece looks at natural gas from an environmental point-of-view. It begins:
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"In America's climate debate, one of the most promising developments of recent months has been the growing recognition in Washington that natural gas may play a key role in curbing carbon emissions."
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The editors make the case for increasing the amount of electricity which is produced by natural gas -- and shutting down older, less efficient, and more polluting coal-fired plants.
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"Existing gas-fired plants are running at only about 25 percent capacity, in part because many are switched on only when demand spikes...doubling the use of existing plants could replace about a third of coal-fired power."
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There is now so much natural gas available in North America that using it for "base load" electricity generation -- instead of reserving it for "peaking" when demand for power is highest -- now makes economic and environmental sense...
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"In America's climate debate, one of the most promising developments of recent months has been the growing recognition in Washington that natural gas may play a key role in curbing carbon emissions."
.
The editors make the case for increasing the amount of electricity which is produced by natural gas -- and shutting down older, less efficient, and more polluting coal-fired plants.
.
"Existing gas-fired plants are running at only about 25 percent capacity, in part because many are switched on only when demand spikes...doubling the use of existing plants could replace about a third of coal-fired power."
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There is now so much natural gas available in North America that using it for "base load" electricity generation -- instead of reserving it for "peaking" when demand for power is highest -- now makes economic and environmental sense...
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Read the entire editorial at link below...
A natural choice
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Above taken from an email today by the Team Pickens, team
* PickensPlan.com *
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Drill Baby -- Drill...
AubreyJ.........
Read the entire editorial at link below...
A natural choice
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Above taken from an email today by the Team Pickens, team
* PickensPlan.com *
.
.......................
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Drill Baby -- Drill...
AubreyJ.........
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