While President Obama and his current administration try to convince America that natural gas is a “clean” alternative fuel, environmental analysts are altogether painting a different picture. Hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking”, is the process of creating fractures in rocks which ultimately allows oil and gas exploration companies to recover more product. In order to create fractures, a mixture of water and chemicals is pumped into the rock or coal formation. In time, the formation becomes unable to absorb the fluid as quickly as is being injected and the increased pressure causes the formation to crack. A proppant is injected with the chemical-based fluids to keep the…

Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) recently announced a new 10-year contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority. Per contract terms, Clean Energy Fuels will refurbish and upgrade CNG station compressor equipment for LA Metro’s Los Angeles Central and South Bay divisions. The company will also operate and maintain the updated equipment. Clean Energy Fuels said it intends to provide more than 9 million gallons…

Bloom Energy has recently unveiled its ground-breaking fuel cell design which may modernize the energy industry as it stands. The system utilizes natural gas and oxygen without ignition and is relatively small in size – opportunely providing consumers…

SolarCraft, solar energy installation experts based in Novato, California, has been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission to provide a $350 million rebate program for California-based residents and businesses that install solar water heating systems in their offices and homes. Together with the existing 30 percent federal tax…

In 2008, the largest natural gas reservoir in North America was discovered underneath rural pastureland in Northwest Louisiana, also extending into the borders of Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. Deposited approximately 150 million years ago, the gas accumulation is attributed to the gradual build-up of rich, organic largest-natural-gas-field-haynesville-uslime mud upon other layers of sediment. According to Gregory Kallenberg’s documentary, aptly titled Haynesville…