pstarr wrote:Nobody wants to bother with NG ICE conversions.
Sure...just use the NG.
pstarr wrote:Nobody wants to bother with NG ICE conversions.
pstarr wrote:, I requested on numerous occasions for demonstration of significant growth in NG conversions or new-car purchases that suggest a trend. There has been none in all your years of trolling here.
Do you know that much of your life is dependent on natural gas outside its use as an energy source?
Natural gas is a raw material in many of our products we depend on.
Almost all the helium we produce comes from natural gas.
Propane, synthetic fertilizers, ammonia?
They are totally dependent on natural gas.
Our population boom was fueled by synthetic fertilizers made from natural; gas. Once the gas dries up so does the fertilizer and a shortage of fertilizer equals a shortage of food.
Natural; gas is also used as an energy source to produce steel, glass, paper, clothing, brick, electricity
How many of our homes are set up for efficient heating with natural methods such as wood, pellet, passive solar?
My house is not.
I never gave this subject any thought until I learned about peak natural gas. And by then it was too late.
At a pilot plant in Menlo Park, California, a technician pours white pellets into a steel tube and then taps it with a wrench to make sure they settle together. He closes the tube, and oxygen and methane—the main ingredient of natural gas—flow in. Seconds later, water and ethylene, the world’s largest commodity chemical, flow out. Another simple step converts the ethylene into gasoline.
The hope for finding more valuable uses for natural gas—and making natural gas a large-scale alternative to oil—doesn’t rest on Siluria alone. The abundance of cheap natural gas has fueled a number of startups with other approaches. Given the challenges that such efforts have faced, there’s good reason to be skeptical that they will succeed, says David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California at San Diego. But should some of them break through, he says, “that would be seismic.”
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Siluria, after five years of research, seems to have finally stumbled across a cheap method of converting natural gas into gasoline. Because natural gas is much more abundant and less in demand than crude oil, it’s only one fifth of the price — about $20 for the natural gas equivalent of a $100 barrel of crude. After Siluria’s conversion process, it may be possible to halve the price of gasoline and other oil-derived products (commodity chemicals, plastics).
ROCKMAN wrote:Even if this new technique can greatly reduce the operational costs what would it cost to build a commercial size GTL plant...the same as existing technology or would it be less...or more?
The darkest days of domestic energy production weren’t that long ago. But key shifts in energy policy in recent years paved the way for entrepreneurial drilling companies to begin tapping into vast underground reserves of oil and gas from coast to coast. Today, natural gas is the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel, opening huge supplies of tight gas, coalbed methane, and — led by advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — shale gas, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. Natural gas production also has benefited from a ready-made infrastructure from long-established pipeline transportation networks, gas treatment facilities, refineries, and supply chains, according to research firm IHS.
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