natural gas

17 statements across 13 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2021 by Emily Pontecorvo · across every show →

Everything said about natural gas, oldest first

Dec 8, 2021
Assertion Supported
Roughly 50 California cities have enacted gas hookup bans
“I think now something like 50 cities in California have passed similar laws”
Emily Pontecorvo Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 4:08 Florida is the latest battleground over fossil-fuel phaseouts
Dec 8, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Research shows renewable natural gas supply cannot replace current fossil demand
“There's research showing that there may not be enough renewable natural gas to serve the, serve people at the level that natural gas does today.”
Emily Pontecorvo Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 14:34 Florida is the latest battleground over fossil-fuel phaseouts
Feb 15, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bordoff: Europe Relies on Russia for Up to 40% of Gas
“Europe depends very heavily. It has for a long time, and that really hasn't changed on Russia for anywhere to a third to even 40% of its natural gas consumption.”
Jason Bordoff Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 2:39 Could a ‘green upheaval’ embolden Russia?
Feb 15, 2022 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Global gas supplies cannot replace a complete Russian cutoff to Europe
“If you had a complete Cut off in Russian gas exports to Europe. There's almost no way to make up for that. There's just not enough molecules. There's not enough natural gas around the world.”
Jason Bordoff Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 2:55 Could a ‘green upheaval’ embolden Russia?
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Noel: US Power Sector Shifted Back to Coal Months Before Ukraine War
“The dispatching in the U.S. Power sector went, went back to favor call a number of months ago, perhaps even a year ago. So you can already see in the U.S. Emissions data, The impact that it, that it's had.”
Pierre Noel Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 9:02 Russia’s war hits energy markets hard
Jun 1, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tomlinson: Renewables are eroding natural gas's market share in Texas
“They have taken a huge chunk of the market away from coal, and they're cutting into natural gas's market share for providing electricity to the state, and there are oil and gas guys who really don't want to give up anything else.”
Chris Tomlinson Jun 1, 2023 ▶ 4:37 Why Texas Republicans are trying to crush wind and solar
Jul 6, 2023
Assertion Supported
Lott: Germany sourced over half its natural gas from Russia in 2022
“When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Germany was getting more than half of its gas from Russia.”
Dr. Melissa Lott Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 16:19 A new narrative series on the origins of Europe's energy crisis
Jul 6, 2023 neutral
Insight
Corbeau: For Putin, Oil Is Money and Gas Is Geopolitics
“Because for Putin, oil is about money, and natural gas is about geopolitics.”
Anne-Sophie Corbeau Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 8:01 A new narrative series on the origins of Europe's energy crisis
Jul 12, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Jaramillo: US has retired roughly 200 GW of coal over two decades
“We've retired roughly 200 gigawatts of coal in the last twenty-ish years or so. Most of that has been replaced by natural gas, but that is not growing as fast as it probably needs to sort of maintain the reliability levels of the grid overall.”
Mateo Jaramillo Jul 12, 2023 ▶ 24:08 A groundbreaking battery nears industrial scale
Jul 26, 2023
Assertion Supported
Lacey: Half of New England's power generation relies on natural gas
“Today, half of the generation mix is gas, but pipeline constraints have led to high prices and unscheduled power plant outages in the winter.”
Stephen Lacey Jul 26, 2023 ▶ 1:50 A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
Oct 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Del Chiaro: California grid still relies heavily on midday natural gas
“If anybody is geeks out, look at Cal ISO's energy supply and demand on a daily basis any summer day, and you will see we are heavily dependent on natural gas still in the middle of the day at 12 o'clock in the afternoon when the sun is shining brightest.”
Bernadette Del Chiaro Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 21:46 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
The US exports roughly 10 percent of its natural gas production
“About 10% of all of the natural gas produced in the U.S. Is exported, and any one of these facilities can process several percent of all of the consumer grade natural gas produced in the U.S. And ship it out around the world.”
Nicole Pollack Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 14:05 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Apr 9, 2024
Assertion Supported
O'Donnell: Industrial heat consumes 25% of global fossil fuels
“It's a quarter of all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we burn in the world is for industrial heat.”
John O'Donnell Apr 9, 2024 ▶ 3:42 The rise of heat batteries
Dec 11, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
O'Donnell: Rondo Sold Calgren Heat at a Discount to Gas Prices
“Here, just for simplicity, because it was on balance sheet, we said, fine, we will sell you heat at a discount to whatever the then gas price is.”
John O'Donnell Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 14:58 A complex path for building heat batteries
Feb 19, 2025 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Jigar Shah: Battery storage additions will be tenfold natural gas deployments
“Battery storage will be heralded as the savior of the grid a year from now, and we will deploy 10 times as much battery storage as we deploy natural gas.”
Jigar Shah Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 49:00 Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back
Feb 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shah: Solar Costs $30-$50/MWh Compared to $95/MWh for New Natural Gas
“Today, you know, solar power installed is, you know, 30 dollars a megawatt hour. Without the tax credits, it's 50 dollars a megawatt hour. That's more expensive than 30 dollars a megawatt hour. I get that. But that's not out of the money. Right? New natural ga…”
Jigar Shah Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 32:01 Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back
Aug 13, 2025
Insight
Methane pyrolysis only became viable after the 2015 fracking boom
“Methane pyrolysis is only interesting if you have low cost natural gas, which hasn't always been the case, and if you are concerned about CO two emissions. And both of those factors really only started in about 2015 or so, once the fracking revolution took off…”
Zach Jones Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 8:07 The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
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