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Not long ago, Americans widely considered a big house, rooms aplenty, energy-consuming appliances and gadgets, plus a multicar garage filled with fancy gas-burning cars to be worth striving for.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Not long ago, Americans widely considered a big house, rooms aplenty, energy-consuming appliances and gadgets, plus a multicar garage filled with fancy gas-burning cars to be worth striving for.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

LONDON—Germany's moratorium on nuclear-power generation will add around 25 million metric tons a year to the country's carbon-dioxide emissions, which will have to be offset elsewhere by replacing coal-fired power with cleaner gas-burning plants, the International Energy Agency said Friday.

IEA Warns on Impact of German Nuclear Halt James Herron 2011

As for results: in an ongoing trial at the University of Tennessee, a five-kilowatt Bloom box (the size of a large coffee table and capable of powering a 5,000-square-foot house) has proved twice as efficient as a traditional gas-burning system and produced 60 percent fewer emissions.

Who Needs the Grid? 2009

The bulk of the offsetting carbon savings would have to come from substituting coal-fired electricity for power from cleaner gas-burning plants, he said.

IEA Warns on Impact of German Nuclear Halt James Herron 2011

Its fuel economy rating, set by the EPA, is the equivalent of 93 miles a gallon, making it the most fuel-efficient, gas-burning production car sold in the U.S. in 2011.

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Fukushima Daiichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., which lost the use of two of its three nuclear plants right after the accident, had to revamp and restart a number of mothballed gas-burning facilities in order to meet energy demand.

Japan Posts First Trade Deficit Since '80 Takashi Nakamichi 2012

Medlock does see some increase in Japan's use of coal and natural gas as the country repairs coal and gas-burning power plants damaged by the earthquake and perhaps uses those plants more than nuclear plants for electricity generation.

World Energy Market Adjusting to Japan Nuclear Crisis 2011

That excludes the growing number of natural gas-burning power plants around the U.S. and facilities that use other types of fuel to create energy, like the tire-burning Geneva Energy plant in Ford Heights, Ill., which has been the subject of an unresolved civil rights complaint filed with the EPA.

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The gas industry is making some headway in capitalizing on its relative cheapness: President Barack Obama has endorsed incentives for trucks powered by natural gas, and power companies are considering replacing coal-fired plants with gas-burning ones.

As Natural Gas Prices Fall, the Search Turns to Oil Daniel Gilbert 2011