Jenkins: Displacing Russian gas with US LNG may not increase net emissions
Jesse Jenkins · Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter? · Mar 31, 2022 · at 44:23
Jesse Jenkins, energy systems modeler at Princeton University, compares the lifecycle emissions of US liquefied natural gas against leaky Russian pipeline gas.
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“Even relying on US LNG to displace Russian pipeline gas may lead to a small net decrease in emissions because the greenhouse gas intensity of, Russian gas is so high that even LNG, which is worse normally than pipelines, because you consume energy to liquefy the gas and regasify it may actually be, you know, about a wash or even a slight reduction in emissions.”
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