Compared to diesel generators, natural gas generators produce a significantly lower rate of emissions, making them a great choice for whole-home backup power. Once they are installed, it’s ...

Gas-Powered Generators: A Quiet Revolution We tag along with the pros while they install a natural gas-burning standby generator. By Roy Berendsohn Published: Feb 22, 2012 12:30 PM EST ...

Renewable energy sources needed to achieve the state's climate goals have not scaled up to meet a "dramatic" increase in ...

At work our new data center uses natural gas fired turbines to generate electricity, and we take the heat off of those turbines and use it for both heating and cooling. To create chilled water we ...

“California can pipe natural gas directly to residential high-efficiency, low-NOx furnaces, which is converting more than 97% to heat. Instead, the state is choosing to generate peaking power using ...

New York is the first state in the country to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings – a major win for climate advocates, but a move that could spark pushback from fossil ...

Luckily my house has natural gas and I have a 50’s era gas heater in my living room to keep it warm but the rest of the house I ran off the generator. 2 TV’s with 2 satellite boxes 2 space ...

In addition, space and water heating make up nearly 90 percent of all building-related natural gas demand. When burned, natural gas does emit less carbon dioxide than oil or coal.

If you’re going to the cost and trouble of switching out an oil furnace for something new, a geothermal heat pump may cost more ($7,500 and up) than a new gas heating system but will save big ...

But natural gas has its defenders, too, who have beaten back proposed phase outs before. Burning fossil fuels in homes and businesses is the second biggest source of global warming pollution in ...