At 11:49 AM 4/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>BTW thanks for posting the David Crockett Williams input to Strategic Plan
>2000. I found it very interesting, especially the move to try and convince us
>that natural gas is somehow 'clean'...
>
Chris, I'm sorry to say that the section on natural gas was totally wrong:
>in absolutely no way is natural
> gas combustion "cleaner" in terms of reducing carbon dioxide emissions
> because it still yields carbon dioxide upon combustion in the same
> proportions as coal or oil.
In fact, any basic primer on CO2 will confirm that natural gas emits less
CO2 per unit of energy generated than oil or coal. So in the UK in 1990,
natural gas contibuted 33% of the enrgy supply, but only 19% of the CO2
emissions. I'm afraid that the writer's failure to grasp this basic point
doesn't fill me with confidence about the accuracy of the rest of the post.
Best wishes
Chris
Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management Studies,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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