By Peter Bosworth What is Natural Gas?
Natural gas isn’t what you put in your car, or what you use to barbeque. It’s one of the cleanest and safest fossil fuels available.
Natural gas consists of about 90% methane and small amounts of other hydrocarbons. You can find natural gas with other fossil fuels in coal beds, where plants and animals have decayed under silt, rock and sand. The gas is highly combustible, and when burned it gives off an enormous amount of energy without emitting as much CO2 as other fossil fuels.
In this age of environmentalism, natural gas’s clean and powerful energy makes it …read more
