Joseph Green writes: > How much loss of gas is there during the transmission > through these pipelines?
Yes this is a big issue, and this may indeed be the Environmental Achilles Heel in SolarFuel's plan which I overlooked in my previous email. Here is my speculation about this issue (and if anybody on this list knows better please speak up): This information does not exist because the natural gas firms do not have to collect it, and if you ask them about it, they will tell you flatly in your face that these losses are zero. (Happened to me when I asked someone from Questar, our natural gas utility in Utah.) My hunch from what I read is that it is probably above 1%. I don't think this has to be this way. I think with a little technology these gas pipelines can be made much tighter, and we environmentalists must push for this. It seems to me this is much easier than preventing fugitive emissions in fracking. Hans _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
