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Cleaner air with CNG, wind, hydro, and nuclear
We should switch our vehicles to natural gas, because it is far cleaner than liquid hydrocarbons.
http://www.cngnow.com/what-is-...NGVs improve air quality through dramatic reductions in emissions, such as:
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20% to 30%
Reducing carbon monoxide (CO) emissions up to 75%
Reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by approximately 50%
Reducing up to 95% of particle matter (PM) emissions
Reducing volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions by 55%Source: TIAX Report - Full Fuel Cycle Assessment: Well-To-Wheels Energy Inputs, Emissions, and Water Impacts, 08/2007 (Prepared for California Energy Commission).
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory Report: A Full Fuel-Cycle Analysis of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas, 12/1999.
Vehicles that run on natural gas exist already.
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...They run cheap, fill up fast (unlike electrics), and get good range on one tank. There's likely a CNG filling station near you, and there's an option to fill up at home.
https://maps.cngnow.com/
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...There's a lot of natural gas and we'd have even more if we stop burning it for electricity. Instead of natural gas for electricity we should have nuclear, wind, and hydro. By using pumped hydro storage, grid scale batteries, and demand shifting incentives, we should be able to shift relatively quickly. In the long term we'd need better load following technology like thermal energy storage and fourth generation nuclear.
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Cleaner air with CNG, wind, hydro, and nuclear
We should switch our vehicles to natural gas, because it is far cleaner than liquid hydrocarbons.
http://www.cngnow.com/what-is-...NGVs improve air quality through dramatic reductions in emissions, such as:
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20% to 30%
Reducing carbon monoxide (CO) emissions up to 75%
Reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by approximately 50%
Reducing up to 95% of particle matter (PM) emissions
Reducing volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions by 55%Source: TIAX Report - Full Fuel Cycle Assessment: Well-To-Wheels Energy Inputs, Emissions, and Water Impacts, 08/2007 (Prepared for California Energy Commission).
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory Report: A Full Fuel-Cycle Analysis of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas, 12/1999.
Vehicles that run on natural gas exist already.
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...They run cheap, fill up fast (unlike electrics), and get good range on one tank. There's likely a CNG filling station near you, and there's an option to fill up at home.
https://maps.cngnow.com/
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...There's a lot of natural gas and we'd have even more if we stop burning it for electricity. Instead of natural gas for electricity we should have nuclear, wind, and hydro. By using pumped hydro storage, grid scale batteries, and demand shifting incentives, we should be able to shift relatively quickly. In the long term we'd need better load following technology like thermal energy storage and fourth generation nuclear.
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Cleaner air with CNG, wind, hydro, and nuclear
We should switch our vehicles to natural gas, because it is far cleaner than liquid hydrocarbons.
http://www.cngnow.com/what-is-...NGVs improve air quality through dramatic reductions in emissions, such as:
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20% to 30%
Reducing carbon monoxide (CO) emissions up to 75%
Reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by approximately 50%
Reducing up to 95% of particle matter (PM) emissions
Reducing volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions by 55%Source: TIAX Report - Full Fuel Cycle Assessment: Well-To-Wheels Energy Inputs, Emissions, and Water Impacts, 08/2007 (Prepared for California Energy Commission).
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory Report: A Full Fuel-Cycle Analysis of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas, 12/1999.
Vehicles that run on natural gas exist already.
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...They run cheap, fill up fast (unlike electrics), and get good range on one tank. There's likely a CNG filling station near you, and there's an option to fill up at home.
https://maps.cngnow.com/
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...There's a lot of natural gas and we'd have even more if we stop burning it for electricity. Instead of natural gas for electricity we should have nuclear, wind, and hydro. By using pumped hydro storage, grid scale batteries, and demand shifting incentives, we should be able to shift relatively quickly. In the long term we'd need better load following technology like thermal energy storage and fourth generation nuclear.
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Cleaner air with CNG, wind, hydro, and nuclear
We should switch our vehicles to natural gas, because it is far cleaner than liquid hydrocarbons.
http://www.cngnow.com/what-is-...NGVs improve air quality through dramatic reductions in emissions, such as:
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20% to 30%
Reducing carbon monoxide (CO) emissions up to 75%
Reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by approximately 50%
Reducing up to 95% of particle matter (PM) emissions
Reducing volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions by 55%Source: TIAX Report - Full Fuel Cycle Assessment: Well-To-Wheels Energy Inputs, Emissions, and Water Impacts, 08/2007 (Prepared for California Energy Commission).
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy - Argonne National Laboratory Report: A Full Fuel-Cycle Analysis of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Transportation Fuels Produced from Natural Gas, 12/1999.
Vehicles that run on natural gas exist already.
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...They run cheap, fill up fast (unlike electrics), and get good range on one tank. There's likely a CNG filling station near you, and there's an option to fill up at home.
https://maps.cngnow.com/
http://www.cngnow.com/vehicles...There's a lot of natural gas and we'd have even more if we stop burning it for electricity. Instead of natural gas for electricity we should have nuclear, wind, and hydro. By using pumped hydro storage, grid scale batteries, and demand shifting incentives, we should be able to shift relatively quickly. In the long term we'd need better load following technology like thermal energy storage and fourth generation nuclear.
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Re:Where are you going to get the fuel?
If these trucks use hydrogen from electrolysis, in California (the planned location for most of these trucks), and California continues with their plans to drive nuclear power out of the state, then these are natural gas powered trucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Kenworth has been making natural gas trucks for years.
https://www.kenworth.com/news/...There appears to be plenty of natural gas filling stations in California.
https://maps.cngnow.com/search...Hydrogen fueled trucks are a stupid idea.
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Woosh.
These guys have finally designed the world's best 2005 Semi Truck.
Also one or two full-size beds will be included inside the vehicle's enormous cab.
For who? Are they trying to milk the last owner operators? Walmart quibbles with OEMs over 0.1 MPG claims. The second they can, every single Walmart truck is going to be replaced by an autonomous driver, even if it's just between cities. (Given where most Walmarts are located it'll replace 90% of their need for drivers). They spent a lot of time and money designing something that will never get used by time this hits the market.
, the vehicle will provide nearly double the power of the current-gen diesel-powered semis/articulated lorries
And? Truck OEMs are moving to Natural Gas. Locomotives are too.
Everyone thought Warren Buffet was crazy buying a rail company in 2009. Turns out that he owns Northern Natural Gas the largest interstate natural gas pipeline system in the United States. Northern Natural Gas' pipeline system stretches across 11 states, from Southern Texas to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, providing access to five of the major natural gas supply regions in North America. (At which point he starts to sound a bit more like Rockefeller).
10 years ago Natural Gas was a 3rd party add on. Now the engine OEMs are selling it in addition to dual fuel engines (NG/Diesel). That goes for engines for a small tractor up through their largest stationary engines.
Natural gas is:
- Domestic.
- Cheap
- Run to households in a lot of the US.
With a tiny compressor you could come home and 'fill up' at night..
If I was an investor the 2 power sources for vehicles going forward are going to be natural gas & batteries. You cut out a lot of gasoline and diesel refineries. You can run locomotives and semis on natural gas (since batteries alone can't (yet)).
Hydrogen, in 2016, is a non-starter. First you can't just 'get' it. We're quickly getting an EV grid and the Natural Gas 'grid' is already there.
Finally it's not about horsepower. Those Semi truck engines "only" pushing a few hundred HP can easily put out more. The Caterpillar D11 bulldozer only has 850 HP. The reason they're de-tuned is they're designed to do that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for a million miles. You can easy tune them up to easily out do the 1,000 horsepower and 2,000 foot-pounds. [And why geeks that aren't into machinery shouldn't just look at specs like they're computers.]
By 2020 this is going to look like a dinosaur.
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Re:Where do you fill up?
Both gasses are "natural gas"
They are natural gasses but they are not Natural Gas: Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly includes varying amounts of other higher alkanes and even a lesser percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulfide.
You wouldn't be able to run the same car on that.
Why not? I make my living on large engines that run natural gas just fine. If you can run a car on propane you can run it on natural gas. You just have to account for knock and energy density. At which point Natural Gas runs better than propane. Methane has a Octane rating of 120. Propane has an octane rating of 112. (Most cars run on 87-93 in the US).
Honda has sold a natural gas vehicle in the US since 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the US Department of Energy is trying to get companies to make a cheaper home filling station: http://www.cngnow.com/news/pos...
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Re:Oh Frack!
There are quite a few CNG stations and there are more and more being built every day... Here's an iphone/android app that will find one for you:
http://www.cngnow.com/app/Pages/information.aspxAlso, here is a standard webpage that lists all CNG stations in the USA:
http://www.cngnow.com/stations/Pages/information.aspxYou don't have to have a special refueling card to pump CNG, that is just a requirement by that one PG&E facility... There are public CNG fueling stations. You don't need a class, it is pretty easy. If you can operate a propane tank for your gas grill, you can fill up your vehicle. Here is a youtube video that shows how easy it is: http://youtu.be/W8FkcG64Gtk
Thanks!
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Re:Oh Frack!
There are quite a few CNG stations and there are more and more being built every day... Here's an iphone/android app that will find one for you:
http://www.cngnow.com/app/Pages/information.aspxAlso, here is a standard webpage that lists all CNG stations in the USA:
http://www.cngnow.com/stations/Pages/information.aspxYou don't have to have a special refueling card to pump CNG, that is just a requirement by that one PG&E facility... There are public CNG fueling stations. You don't need a class, it is pretty easy. If you can operate a propane tank for your gas grill, you can fill up your vehicle. Here is a youtube video that shows how easy it is: http://youtu.be/W8FkcG64Gtk
Thanks!