What are the pros and cons of natural gas?

Answer

First thing to note is that the question doesn't have any real meaning as it is stated. There are no pros or cons to natural gas. It just is. There are however pros and cons to USING natural gas, and those pros and cons depend a great deal on the intended purpose you want to use it for. So a better question would really be "What are the pros and cons of using natural gas for _____" (and fill in the blank with things like "heating your home" or "cooking food" or "making electricity at a power plant" or "powering your home in a remote rural location" or "powering your car or other vehicle," etc.) Obviously, the pros and cons of using natural gas are very different for cooking than for driving your car or making electricity!

Nonetheless, the answers below give some general characteristics of natural gas that are always important to take into account, such as delivery systems, safety, price, bi-products of combustion and environmental concerns.

Answer 1

There are probably many, but I can only think of a few right now.

1. Natural gas use requires a separate and special plumbing system inside structures.

2. Natural gas is colorless, tasteless, AND ODORLESS, requiring the addition of an odorant [one or more of several "Mercaptains"] to allow olfactory detection [smell] of leaks.

3. When gas from an underground leak travels great distances [underground], the odorant can be "scrubbed out" of the gas, thereby rendering it again ODORLESS, and therefore a severe explosion and fire hazard.

4. Being a fossil fuel, it is carbon based, and it's byproducts of combustion include carbon compounds [such as carbon dioxide and/or monoxide] which contribute to the environmentally damaging "greenhouse effect." j3h.

Answer 2 Pros of Natural Gas

It's relatively abundant, clean burning and seems easy to distribute.

It's also lighter than air, so if there is a leak it will tend to dissipate, unlike propane, which is heavier than air and pools into explosive pockets.

It can be used for heating, cooking, hot water, clothes dryer, backup generator power, and so forth.

Some places will supply it to your house by way of underground pipes.

Con

If your house is not properly insulated it can be very expensive.

Answer 3

Natural gas is more economical, it is faster when used in cooking and water heating and most gas applianeces are cheeper as opposed to electrical ones. Gas appliances also do not create unhealthy electical fields in your house. Some electical appliances require high voltage which is dangerous and costrly to insttall.

Answer 4

It can leak, potentially causing an explosion.

Answer 5

One is that burning it creates CO₂ emissions (although not as much as oil or coal), and CO₂ is a greenhouse gas. Natural gas itself is actually a very strong greenhouse gas also (much more than CO₂ in fact). Another disadvantage is that it can leak and cause fires and/or explosions.

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