Gas investments not so environmental friendly
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EU countries will invest €117 billion in gas, of which as much as €13.4 billion (11.5 percent) is to be invested by Poland.
The environmental benefits of, for example, switching from coal to gas are yet debatable. The fact is that the combustion of natural gas in the process of electricity production causes significantly lower emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the combustion of coal. According to expert calculations, the gas power plant emits up to 40 percent less CO2 than a coal power plant with the same power of energy produced.
On the other hand, the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions directly during energy production are offset by leaks of natural gas from the gas infrastructure to the atmosphere at the stage of its extraction, transport, storage, and distribution.
95% of natural gas consists of methane, which is currently the second (after carbon dioxide) emitted in the largest amount of greenhouse gas. What's more, it is also a greenhouse gas much more effective than CO2 - its ability to retain heat in the atmosphere is up to 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
