I hear the "network of CNG stations" argument and it doesn't make
much sense to me. Why can't a CNG pump (or pump equivalent) be added
to the existing network of stations, or some of the existing network
of stations? I've seen this at a few stations in greater LA
already...
-Curt
uh! a little thing like the difference between atmospheric pressure
and 2000+ PSI. One is not dangerous, and the other is.
Have you ever seen the videos of what happens when you knock the
valve off an oxygen bottle? Can you say "rocket" and that is with
an oxydizer, but not a fuel. Now add fuel and ignition to the
2000PSI, and you can imagine the conflagration.
Then there is the other little secret that good ol Tbone doesn't tell
you. We have people who want to disqualify ethanol because it has
~10% fewer BTU/lb than good gasoline. The same people support
propane with a 20% fewer BTU/lb and the dangers of a compressed
flammable gas. But tbone and many ethanol haters are all in love
with CNG with the dangers of 2000 PSI fuel gas, and what? 30-40% of
the BTU/lb of gasoline? (Somebody can contribute the right number)
There are much better alternative fuels. BioD being best, with a
100% drop in and better (Way better) lubricity than ULSD. Butanol
is another. It is a 100% dropin for gasoline, from what I have heard.
We are sitting on top of a large percentage of the world oil
reserves. We are sitting on top of a much larger percentage of the
world coal supplies. The Germans may have made some synthetic fuels
out of NG, but the majority was made from coal. The Fiischer-Troph
process used to convert coal to synfuels (gasoline and Diesel) is
likely the process used to make synfuel out of NG. I am not a
chemist, but either way you are breaking hydrocarbons into the
lengths you want, so to me the process is pretty similar.
SynBioFuels can be made with pretty simple processes. One guy made a
crude synDiesel by throwing old tires into a large culvert section,
lighting the pile on fire and closing the door. The resulting liquid
that drained out was used as is as synDiesel. A mo' bettah design is
to pyrolize the coal, then sell the resulting BioSyn crude to a
refiner.
BTW, the BioSynDiesel is highly desired by refineries, as it has a
VERY high cetane rating. They want all they can get as a blending
ingredient the same as BioDiesel. It also has better lubricity than
the petroDiesel.
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