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Many Californians face up to 14 days of blackouts this summer because a single natural gas storage facility is unavailable. The Los Angeles Times reported that there is not enough natural gas to make the electricity needed to keep Southern California, ...

Obama Administration EPA policies are driving up the cost of electricity in many parts of the United States, as power companies building multi-million and billion dollar facilities pass on the cost to customers. Electric bills are rising because strict new ...

How would you like to produce your own biogas? Biogas is produced by anaerobic bacteria (the kind that can only survive in the absence of oxygen) that break down organic material into methane and carbon dioxide, or “biogas.” Your stove, ...

Hydraulic fracking does indeed pollute well water, a study of complaints made to state regulators indicates. The Associated Press surveyed complaints made to state authorities in Texas, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania and found a pattern that suggests fracking causes ...

Energy is the driver of any advanced economy, and fossil fuels are a key part of US energy needs. For decades this has mostly meant oil, but natural gas now is seen as a plentiful, relatively clean resource. The USA ...

A failure of the power grid left 70 percent of the nation of Venezuela without electricity in early September. Venezuela was the world’s eighth-largest net oil exporter in 2010, and, the same year, had the second-largest natural gas reserves in the ...

An Indiana dairy farmer’s earth-friendly fuel solution offers another great alternative for homesteading families and off the grid preppers. Mike McCloskey of Fair Oaks Dairy Farm has turned cow manure into a viable and inexpensive natural gas source. The dairy’s ...

Tapping into power is one thing, but sustaining the energy and using it full time is quite another.  Regardless of the type of energy source you use (ideally more than one in conjunction with each other to create a genuinely ...

At one time, natural gas was seen as little more than a superfluous byproduct of the oil extraction process. But once the potential of natural gas as an energy source became clear, a new era in energy production was soon ...