LA port LNG project successful

Ferretlover · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: LA port LNG project successful

SOUND ENERGY Solutions (SES) Oct 24 announced that a 14-month demonstration project utilizing liquefied natural gas (LNG) in two yard tractors at Yusen Terminals Inc. in the Port of Los Angeles has shown initial favorable results.
The demonstration project, conducted from October 2005 through December 2006 at Yusen’s facility on Terminal Island, found that particulate matter emissions were 93% cleaner than a standard diesel engine and 90% cleaner than an on-road diesel engine using ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel. …
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Tyler_JC

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Well Duh its cleaner than diesel... It also has a much lower energy density, did they mention that?

Tyler, I think you are correct that there will be more built...

But a couple things to keep in mind...

Even one accident would take a good chunk of the port/city hosting it out.

I hardly think the "flood" will be able to compensate for the losses in available higher density refined fuels like gasoline and diesel. So still a net decrease in available energy and ever increasing price with the commensurate drag on the economy.

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I'm sure we'll see more of them in the future, but keep in mind that the US uses 635B m3 of nat gas a year.

and the current largest tankers carry the equivalent of 90M m3 of natural gas (gaseous state). So with a very conservative decline rate of 2% (using Oil's predicted decline rate, NA nat gas I think is suppose to a be 5% decline rate but I forget)

thats 140 shipments a year per year (ie next year requires 280 shipments) just to keep nat gas at a standstill.

So you can see just after a few short years you'll never be able to build ports or ships fast enough to keep up (as a best case).

A "more practical" solution would be a pipeline across the Bering Strait to get Russian Gas (which could easily be connected to Iranian Gas as well). All it would take is Coni Rice doing some fast talking and we're all set Laughing

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Tyler_JC

Natural gas is burned off as a waste product in many oil producing countries.

The problem isn't a lack of gas.

Russia is top offender in gas-flare emissions

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TheDude

Dave Cohen wrote a good article for TOD: Empire on the Edge - Betting on LNG. He references Harold York's Limited Availability for "Cheap" LNG, which is available from EB. Excellent pieces both. Didja know much of the LNG available for import has the wrong heat content for the US infrastructure?

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