The Finding Cost of Natural Gas: Technological Change versus Resource Depletion

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Cuddington ◽  
Diana L. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Resource Depletion

Incentive Regulation in Network Industries: Experience and Prospects in the U.S. Telecommunications, Electricity, and Natural Gas Industries

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross C. Hemphill ◽  
Mark E. Meitzen ◽  
Philip E. Schoech
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Incentive Regulation ◽  
Industry Concentration ◽  
Network Industries ◽  
Price Cap Regulation ◽  
Regulatory Commitment ◽  
The U.S

We trace the development of incentive regulation in the U.S. telecommunications, electricity, and natural gas industries. Telecom has moved much more in the direction of pure price cap regulation. Incentive regulation in electricity and gas has generally not strayed far from rate-ofreturn regulation. Reasons for these differences include differences in regulatory commitment, industry concentration, technological change and productivity growth, service quality concerns, and externalities. We conclude that electricity and gas can evolve to purer forms of price caps as they gain more experience with incentive regulation, and if the unique features of these industries are considered in plan design.

Economies of Scale Versus Technological Change in the Natural Gas Transmission Industry

1987 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varouj A. Aivazian ◽  
Jeffrey L. Callen ◽  
M. W. Luke Chan ◽  
Dean C. Mountain
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Natural Gas Transmission

Resource depletion impact assessment: Impacts of a natural gas scarcity in Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Rimos ◽  
Andrew F.A. Hoadley ◽  
David J. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Resource Depletion

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of Solid Recovered Fuel Gasification in the State of Qatar

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mohamed S. H. Al-Moftah ◽  
Richard Marsh ◽  
Julian Steer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
Fossil Resource ◽  
Environmental Impact Categories

Gas products from gasified solid recovered fuel (SRF) have been proposed as a replacement for natural gas to produce electricity in future power generation systems. In this work, the life cycle assessment (LCA) of SRF air gasification to energy was conducted using the Recipe2016 model considering five environmental impact categories and four scenarios in Qatar. The current situation of municipal solid waste (MSW) handling in Qatar is landfill with composting. The results show that using SRF gasification can reduce the environmental impact of MSW landfills and reliance on natural gas in electricity generation. Using SRF gasification on the selected five environmental impact categories—climate change, terrestrial acidification, marine ecotoxicity, water depletion and fossil resource depletion—returned significant reductions in environmental degradation. The LCA of the SRF gasification for the main four categories in the four scenarios gave varying results. The introduction of the SRF gasification reduced climate change-causing emissions by 41.3% because of production of renewable electricity. A reduction in water depletion and fossil resource depletion of 100 times were achieved. However, the use of solar technology and SRF gasification to generate electricity reduced the impact of climate change to almost zero emissions. Terrestrial acidification showed little to no change in all three scenarios investigated. This study was compared with the previous work from the literature and showed that on a nominal 10 kg MSW processing basis, 5 kg CO2 equivalent emissions were produced for the landfilling scenarios. While the previous studies reported that 8 kg CO2 produced per 10 kg MSW is processed for the same scenario. The findings indicate that introducing SRF gasification in solid waste management and electricity generation in Qatar has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission load and related social, economic, political and environmental costs. In addition, the adoption of the SRF gasification in the country will contribute to Qatar’s national vision 2030 by reducing landfills and produce sustainable energy.

A Survey of Nuclear and Solar Energy

2012 ◽  
Vol 535-537 ◽  
pp. 2116-2119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Wang ◽  
Kai Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
The Common

The energy is the important matter condition of the human survival and the development. Coal, petroleum, natural gas and other fossil energy support in 19 and twentieth Century in recent 200 years, the progress of human civilization and the development of economy and society,But coal, petroleum, natural gas and other non-renewable energy increasing consumption, not only make the mankind is faced with resource depletion pressure, but also feel the serious environmental problems threatening.At present, improving energy efficiency, development and utilization of renewable energy sources, protect the ecological environment, realizing sustainable development have become the common action of international renewable energy rich, clean, sustainable utilization. Strengthen the development and utilization of renewable energy, is to deal with the increasingly serious energy and environmental problems in the route one must take, also is the human society to realize the sustainable development of the route one must take.

ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM WALL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN ISRAEL

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Pushkar ◽  
Oleg Verbitsky
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Lightweight Concrete ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Concrete Block ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Thermal Mass ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Operational Energy

Four wall technologies used for residential building in Israel (concrete, lightweight concrete block, autoclaved aerated block, and concrete block) were evaluated for their total environmental damage. The production and construction (P&C) and operational energy (OE) stages were considered. Influences of the climate (the four climate zones of Israel), building type (regular and low-energy), and primary fuel source [natural gas and photovoltaic (PV) for energy production] on the selection of the best wall technology were analyzed. EnergyPlus software was used to evaluate building heating and cooling needs for the OE stage. The ReCiPe method was used for both the P&C and OE stages to evaluate environmental damage via human health, ecosystem quality and resource depletion damage categories. It was determined that both concrete block walls and concrete walls were the best choices when natural gas was used, while the concrete block and autoclaved aerated block walls were the best choices when PV was used. The following two conclusions were reached: wall technologies with high thermal mass are environmentally preferred when natural gas is used, whereas wall technologies with reduced cement quantity are environmentally preferred when PV is used.

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