Natural Gas Lecture | Jane Woodward | Stanford Understand Energy

Significance and history of natural gas (NG); what and where NG is; how the NG system works; environmental impacts; economics of NG; and the future of NG. Visit the Natural Gas page on our Learning Hub for more content:
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Recorded on: October 4, 2024
Presented by: Jane Woodward, Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering;
Founder and Managing Partner, Woven Earth Ventures; Founding Partner, MAP Energy

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00:00 Introduction
01:09 Significance and History
23:44 What is Natural Gas?
24:44 Where is the Natural Gas?
28:49 How Does the Natural Gas System Work?
47:11 Environmental Impacts
56:29 Economics
57:31 The Future of Natural Gas

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