Fuel gas is a fuel in the gaseous state whose potential heat energy can be readily transmitted and distributed through pipes from the point of origin directly to the place of consumption.
Natural gas (methane) is the most common fuel gas, but others include:
- Coal gas or Town gas
- Syngas
- Propane
- Butane
- Regasified liquified petroleum gas
- Wood gas
- Producer gas
- Water gas
- HCNG
- Uncompressed Hydrogen or compressed hydrogen may be used as a fuel gas.
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“It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)