We can use biology to make clean gas.
You try to find a clean gas station.
The clean gas is then used as fuel in a gas turbine to produce power.
Plants using comparatively clean gas would be permitted to emit perhaps 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a ceiling within easy reach using modern technologies.
As it becomes cost-effective to shift the balance in electricity generation from relatively dirty coal to relatively clean gas, there is an immediate benefit to the environment.
Modelling conducted by the International Energy Agency IEAA), shows that if the planet converted heavily to "clean" gas today, global temperatures would still rise by 3.5 degrees.
Newly liberalised electricity firms replaced old, dirty coal-fired power plants with new, clean gas-fired ones in the "dash for gas" in the 1990s because they were cheaper, not because they were cleaner that was just a happy coincidence.
It was heavily influenced by reforms in Britain in 1990 that reduced costs for both production and distribution of power and led to substantial investment in clean, gas-fired power plants and retirement of old, inefficient coal plants.
Thereby the clean gas is obtained.
So much gas so close to cities presents a real opportunity to replace dirty coal plants with clean gas turbines.
