It will take at least 5 more months for Kenya to know whether it will join the worlds elite group of oil producing nations. Energy Permanent Secretary, Patrick Nyoike says the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has requested for a 5 months extension of its oil exploration project in Isiolo. This comes in the wake of the discovery of traces of natural gas in the Bhogal 1 exploratory well, whose drilling begun in October last year.
I may have left the thermostat on but the pilot light off on my sister's gas wall heater. Will this emit natural gas or since the pilot light is off will the flow of natural gas be blocked?
It's a gas wall heater, not a water heater.
So, Chris, what you're saying is that if the pilot light is not lit, even if the thermostat wants to turn on the heat, the gas will not flow because the pilot light is not lit? Therefore, the house is safe?
If natural gas is cheap enough compared to the cost of electricity, it might be much cheaper to generate your home electricity requirements with a natural gas motor/electric generator. I'm sure the gas companies would LOVE it if everyone did this! And, if everyone stopped buying electricity because this worked, the electric companies would have to lower their prices to compete!
I need to find out the conversion factor of gallons of natural gas into kwh of electricity for a natural gas power plant in Louisiana. When I calculate it using heat of combustion of natural gas, it gives me a really big value for kwh of electricity, however using DOE's data gives me a far lesser value. I am confused what is the conversion factor and what is the efficiency of the process. Please be as specific as you can.
