Below are five insider tips that can prevent you from getting ripped off, but read on before skipping to the good stuff. Your furnace is one of the most expensive appliances youâll ever buy for your home, due to the intense labor and all of the materials that are necessary for a proper installation.
Photo: Daniel Foster/Flickr. Critics of the natural gas extraction technique known as fracking have long criticized it for leaking too much methane â a potent greenhouse gas â into the atmosphere during the extraction process.he Environmental Protection Agency recently estimated that natural gas operations emitted about 145 million metric tons of methane in 2011, making it the biggest source of these emissions in the country.
Methane is the dominant component in natural gas. But at 29%, the oil and natural gas industry is actually not the largest source of methane emissions.The top producer is the agricultural sector, specifically the manure, belches and flatulence that comes from livestock, mainly cattle.ethane is a greenhouse gas that is colorless, odorless and can be flammable. After carbon dioxide, itâs the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the U.S. by human activities and accounts for about 9% of such gases, according to EPA.