Comments on: Why the natural gas lobby is wooing the clean power industry http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:42:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Solar http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1039693 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:15:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1039693 Natural gas trying to imitate clean energy. Could be detrimental to REAL renewable energy growth.

]]> By: bob http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1032763 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:52:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1032763 Can Panasonic or Toshiba mass produce a cost-effective, lithium-ion battery, that can store enough electricity (that is generated by an electric generator powered by natural gas) to power a WHOLE-HOUSE? I have a gas well in my backyard, so the gas comes free. Who do I contact at Panasonic or Toshiba to use my home to test the reliability and durability of such a battery?

]]> By: Salman Zafar http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1025476 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:04:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1025476 Reblogged this on Cleantech Solutions.

]]> By: Cheryl http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1025423 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:31:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1025423 Obama sold out! When he accepted $10 MILLION from Duke Energy to put the down payment on the Atlanta Convention Center……. Obama, owned by big banks, health insurance companies, big pharmaceuticals and now natural gas……..what’s left to say? He’s a pimp and he’ll get away with it. Me, I’m not voting……..for him this time

]]> By: keninca http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1023188 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:23:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1023188 From a renewable energy standpoint, it’s o.k. Gas should hasten the practical obsolescence of coal, and when it does, combined with export terminals an inevitable funging (is that a word) of combustible energy, the price will rise. Gas is cheap now because supply has increased faster than distribution can allow demand, but demand will catch up, and then the price of it will reach parity with oil.

When the price of gas rises to a demand driven level, and the costs of the inevitable pollution that fracking get shouldered by the public, renewable energy will be there, more advanced than today, and ready to deliver a cleaner, less expensive solution.

In the meantime, there will be pollution and climate chaos. But that seems to be the price people are willing to pay.

]]> By: Roland http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1023174 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:06:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1023174 Used jet engines are available cheap, and provide time-responsive peaking load. And NatGas is cheap right now. Duct the exhaust under the boiler of a former coal-fired plant and efficiency goes way up. The exhaust is co2 and h2o. There is demand for the co2 for injection into old oilfields for secondary recovery of oil. Sounds like win-win to me.

]]> By: App developer Ben http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1023129 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:55:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1023129 At the end of the day this industry has to change….

]]> By: Felix Hoenikker http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1022979 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:18:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1022979 gas isnt going to get much cheaper and we’ve tried fuel cells. Go ask Arete Corp, UTC, Plug Power, Angstrom, Larry Burns etc

]]> By: Felix Hoenikker http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/why-the-natural-gas-lobby-is-wooing-the-clean-power-industry/#comment-1022977 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:14:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=567547#comment-1022977 The extraction is dirty and its still combustion….. this feels like a step backward

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