Posted on 10/25/2024 7:06:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Increased use of natural gas for power generation has made the United States more dependent on fossil fuels for its electricity supply this year than China, the world’s top carbon emitter.
Since June 2024, high U.S. summer electricity demand has been mostly met by increased gas-fired power generation, while a rebound in hydropower in China has limited to some extent the share of coal in its electricity supply.
As a result, fossil fuels – including natural gas and coal – have had an average share of 62.4% of total electricity output in the United States since June. This compares to a lower fossil fuel share in the coal-dominated power system in China, where fossil fuels accounted for 60.5% of generation between June and September, according to data from energy think tank Ember reported by Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire.
The rise in natural gas power output could undermine the current U.S. goals of making the grid zero-carbon by 2035.
U.S. power generation from natural gas surged by 20% in the first nine months of 2024, compared to the same period of 2019. The share of gas in power supply has jumped to 43% from 38% five years ago.
In recent years, power demand in the United States, the single largest portion of which is delivered by gas-fired power plants, has soared and is expected to continue to surge with rising electrification and more electricity necessary to power and cool data centers.
U.S. power-generating companies are announcing plans for the highest volume of new natural gas-fired capacity in years as the AI boom is driving demand for electricity.
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Natural gas-fired electricity generation in the United States has jumped year-to-date compared to the same period last year, as total power demand rose with warmer temperatures and demand from data centers.
The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.
All part of the plan.
I remember a time when we were told that natural gas was a fairly cleaning burning fuel, much more so than gasoline.
To implement death and darkness on our lives.
Nat gas wells have been paying big on their mineral rights lately. That means they are making good profits. There is about a two month lag between selling product and paying shareholders.
I’m sure this is nonsense.
More dependent?
I’d say more self-reliant.
Fossil fuels are the greatest and most abundant forms of energy.
“Fossil fuels are the greatest and most abundant forms of energy.”
Correct. Fossil fuels have moved more people out of dangerous living conditions and poverty than any other product.
Nat Gas is a lot “cleaner” in every way than the alternatives, and has a vastly smaller “footprint” than solar or wind. People forget the up-front CO2 “load” of “alternative energy” infrastructure. There are TCO (total cost of ownership) analyses, on a CO2 basis, where Nat Gas is the lowest.
Hold on, comparing generating electricity from natural gas versus coal is nonsense if you are worried about carbon emissions. Natural gas emits about a third of what coal does. Even if we have similar percentages from fossil fuels, our emissions are much lower.
Coal is essentially carbon with some pollutants such as sulfur and oddly some radioactive elements. One atom of Carbon when burned creates 1 molecule of CO2. One molecule of natural gas (CH4) creates one molecule of CO2 and two molecules of H2O and also creates more energy on a pound for pound basis. Natural gas is clean and CO2 is plant food. Coal can be burned cleanly in a modern power plant. I have no problem with coal. However, the Chinese coal powered plants are not clean burning and spew many toxins into the air. I care not about their CO2 but do care about the toxins the Chinese plants put into the air.
I am struck by other hoaxes thrust upon us. Remember Y2K and COVID? The primary difference with these two examples is that there was a short time horizon before the truth revealed the big lies. Turns out Y2K didn't crash the planet, and COVID was not the plague, nor was the totally "safe and effective" so-called vax actually safe and effective.
Not so true with climate change. Climate change is happening every day until who knows when. It's the gift that keeps on giving for them 'cause we all see climate changes every day -- and they know it.
How brilliant and what a shame!
Our emissions will always be less then China.
We use better technology scrubbing the byproduct.
All part of the plan.
Indeed go back the the ice age but they never talk about mankind didn’t cause the melting of it in the first place.
Never smarten up a chump
there is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
Okay, now throw in China’s massive programs to build coal-fired plants all over see how the CO2 pollution (and other elements like sulfur, etc.) figure in the equation.
RE: there is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
Why is oil not a fossil fuel?
The solution is nuclear, but the left has demonized it for decades.
Ahhhh....I created a spreadsheet in excel with various places to input information.
At the end of the calculations it either said true (the information supports the theory of fossil fuel) or false (it does not support).
I had to use some modern day data, such as a 60 ton whale generates 40 barrels of oil, existing land mass, range that a 60 ton animal would need to survive, and so on.
Even if, a fully grown dinosaur was replaced immediately with another, using hundreds of millions of years, you can’t supply the current known oil and gas reserves.
No matter how I tried to manipulate the data, the answer is always false.
Using mathematics I have disproven the theory of fossil fuels.
This is why leftists hate math.
Y2K was a real problem, not a made up one!
The reason systems didn’t all crash is because the problem was actually solved, by updating lots of software over several years.
It was known exactly what the problem was (2 digit years) for years before 2000 AD, and how to solve it (fix *lots* of pieces of software).
Perhaps people think it was a fake problem because the MSM only paid significant attention to it at the end of 1999 — long after it was mainly solved — in their typical desire to boost ratings (and clicks?) by doom-saying.
Anyway, I get real tired of people claiming it was a fake problem. It didn’t materialize because it was accurately predicted, and then solved.
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