{"id":599,"date":"2026-06-29T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/?p=599"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:19:48","slug":"menos-co2-gracias-al-shale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Menos CO2, gracias al shale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En la carrera por cumplir con los compromisos de reducir las emisiones de CO2 no todas son malas noticias:&nbsp;el Estado norteamericano de Pensilvania ha logrado reducir sus emisiones de CO2 en niveles record a la hora de producir electricidad: nada menos que en un 30 %, seg\u00fan una&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/judeclemente\/2016\/04\/17\/fracking-and-natural-gas-have-cut-pennsylvanias-co2-emissions-30\/#73cea5e95165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nota publicada en la revista Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En la carrera por cumplir con los compromisos de reducir las emisiones de CO2 no todas son malas noticias:&nbsp;el Estado norteamericano de Pensilvania ha logrado reducir sus emisiones de CO2 en niveles record a la hora de producir electricidad: nada menos que en un 30 %, seg\u00fan una&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/judeclemente\/2016\/04\/17\/fracking-and-natural-gas-have-cut-pennsylvanias-co2-emissions-30\/#73cea5e95165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nota publicada en la revista Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bfC\u00f3mo lo ha logrado?&nbsp;La explicaci\u00f3n tiene que ver con&nbsp;el&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/201.216.208.12\/hidrocarburos-no-convencionales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shale gas, o \u201cgas no convencional\u201d<\/a>. En ese estado, se explota shale gas procedente de una&nbsp;formaci\u00f3n geol\u00f3gica llamada \u201cMarcellus\u201d (una especie de equivalente a nuestra&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/201.216.208.12\/vaca-muerta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vaca Muerta<\/a>). A medida que el gas se hace abundante en Pensilvania, se deja de utilizar carb\u00f3n, que es un componente importante de la matriz energ\u00e9tica norteamericana, y emite entre 3 y 5 veces m\u00e1s CO2 a la atm\u00f3sfera que el gas natural. As\u00ed, el estado de Pensilvania logr\u00f3 reducir las emisiones de CO2 a la atm\u00f3sfera de 1300 libras por MWh, en 2005, a 910 libras por MWh en la actualidad.&nbsp;Hoy, cerca del 30% de la energ\u00eda que genera Pensilvania proviene del gas natural, por lo que se considera que esta fuente energ\u00e9tica tiene mucho por crecer, y reducir\u00e1 a\u00fan m\u00e1s sus emisiones de CO2 en el futuro cercano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todos estos datos ganan en inter\u00e9s cuando&nbsp;se hace la comparaci\u00f3n con el Estado de California, que hace unos a\u00f1os, gracias a sus privilegiados vientos y sus altos niveles de radiaci\u00f3n solar, decidi\u00f3 volcarse a una matriz basada en las energ\u00edas renovables.&nbsp;Sin embargo, desde 2003, cuando comenz\u00f3 este camino, California no logr\u00f3 reducir sus emisiones de CO2, que rondan desde entonces las 630 libras por MWh (recordemos que California genera el 60% de su electricidad con gas natural, que adquiere de otras jurisdicciones), con una tarifa el\u00e9ctrica cerca del 40% m\u00e1s alta que la de Pensilvania.&nbsp; Este \u00faltimo Estado tambi\u00e9n tiene un plan para incentivar las renovables: espera lograr un 18% de su generaci\u00f3n el\u00e9ctrica con ellas, para 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En la carrera por cumplir con los compromisos de reducir las emisiones de CO2 no todas son malas noticias:&nbsp;el Estado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contenidos-importantes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaleenargentina.org.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}