Monday, February 27, 2012

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Some pain, some gain from rising oil prices | PressDemocra

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120227/WIRE/120229563/1070/opinion?p=all&tc=pgall
Yes, "generating a kilowatt-hour's worth of electricity with a natural gas turbine emits only about half as much CO2 as from a coal plant," says Harvey, and that's great. "But one molecule of leaked gas contributes as much to global warming as 25 molecules of burned gas. That means that if the system for the exploration, extraction, compression, piping and burning of natural gas leaks by even 2.5 percent, it is as bad as coal."

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