gasnoun

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Fuels
alcohol fuel
biofuelled
biomaterial
briquette
charcoal
CHP
coal
coalification
fuel rod
gasometer
go-juice
guzzle
hickory chips
mesquite
non-fuel
non-petroleum
nuclear
propellant
solar panel
stoke

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Wood, coal, oil, petrol, and natural gas are all different kinds of fuel. 

natural gas | American Dictionary

natural gas
noun[ U ]
us/ˈnætʃ·ər·əl ˈɡæs/
gas found underground that is used as a fuel

natural gas | Business English

natural gas
noun[ U ]
 NATURAL RESOURCESukus
gas that is found underground, which is used as a fuel:
Russia has about half the world's coal reserves, 25% of its natural gas, and 18% of its gold.

Examples of natural gas

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The centralized facility could combine crop residues and naturalgas to generate electricity.
Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the production and consumption of oil and naturalgas.
The introduction of naturalgas can be seen as a change in an exogenous variable, which we expected to modify sources' behaviour and program's performance.
Stoves are mainly naturalgas, and gas utility prices are low.
Coal and naturalgas prices are determined by the supply elasticities of their respective resource bases.
This also happened in the late 1970s when construction of the naturalgas network was delegated to the state-owned oil and gas utility.
The streets are of dirt, the electrical power is weak and there is no naturalgas, sewer system, public lighting or garbage service.
Presently the best available coal and naturalgas plants have efficiencies of about 45 per cent and 52 per cent respectively.
As noted in the introduction, naturalgas production has risen substantially only in recent years (mid-1980s).
Total primary energy use is calculated as the simple sum of the standard coal equivalents of coal, oil, naturalgas, and hydroelectricity.
For example, for the naturalgas strategy, we assume all kilns in all seven brickyards switch.
She identifies conversion of petrol and diesel vehicles to compressed naturalgas as win-win options for consumers since they decrease pollution and save costs.
This was a completely state-owned private company which held the naturalgas monopoly and, from 1975, was in charge of creating the transmission network.
In the mid-1980s it decided to reduce dependence on imported fuel oil by converting power plants to naturalgas.
There are large amounts of carbon in the form of coal as well as unconventional resources of naturalgas and oil.
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