Re: If I Was US Minister of Energy

Of course not, "Jon Enslin", Communism was just a red herring...

Charles Beauchamp wrote:


7. We have vast natural gas deposits within this nation. If I was the
Supreme Bossman I would make it a requirement that all new automobiles sold
in the United States have dual tank capability not later then 2015. The
technology is already existent. It works. Now normalize it.

The US Department of Energy should be throwing huge amounts of money at
this or any other alternative energy solution that is economical.

Not at this one.

Natural gas has a lower energy density than does gasoline on a weight
basis. To have a vehicle that has a range over perhaps 100 miles would
take a very large, very high pressure fuel tank. (I've driven a vehicle
that ran on CNG, and in driving about 20 miles, I drained well over half
a tank that took up about 1/3 of a pickup truck bed.) To get natural gas
to be a reasonable fuel, it would have to be added to the vehicle at a
pressure that would liquefy it. To have a vessel capable of 1)containing
that pressure, and 2) not rupturing when some dumnass runs a red light,
causing a massive explosion and killing 40 people, is expensive, and
heavy, and would take an awful lot of space in the car.
Flex fuel vehicles are a good idea. but a fuel that remains a liquid
throughout the normal operating range is a necessity for cost, range, and
safety reasons.

And that's just in the car. Never mind the distribution system. I sure
as hell don't want to live near a self serve natural gas station with
large 50kpsi underground tanks of flammable gas...

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