There is one shipper in AK that retrofit their fleet with massive LNG tanks. They shuttle between WA and AK, as well as head out to HI in these boats. It is the Green thing to do. I wonder if they could swap over to H fuel at a later date.
Euro rail is electric. Not a small enough area to allow USA to do that. Take too much copper, and the miscreants would be constantly ripping the wires out. I was reading up on the energy disaster in UK this morning. Big huzzahs for the increase in plug in cars, while much rending of tunic over the increase in home heating and electric costs. Many energy companies went into receivership when cost to get fuel outpaced revenues and customers got tossed into another provider with jacked up pricing. Elected leadership is pondering giving away more money as well as reducing tax on energy in an attempt to lower the curve of inflationary costs. I tried to reconcile the mass increase in energy cost (electric) with forcing plug in cars and inability to provide power when consumers reduce NG use and increase plug in heaters to balance their bills Clay > On Jan 6, 2022, at 11:56 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Thorium reactors and upgrade (and hardening) of the US electric grid would be > an answer. However, they don't produce byproducts used in nuclear weapons, so > there is no interest. > > The elephant in the room is this. A barrel of oil produces 40-46% gasoline, > 25-28% diesel fuel, 10-12% jet A, and miscellaneous other stuff, asphalt, > ship fuel, etc. If you eliminate the internal combustion automobile that > operates on gasoline, but do NOT eliminate diesel powered semi tractor > trailers, farm tractors, combines, diesel electric locomotives*, cargo > container ships, asphalt roads, and other stuff I don't care to mention, > there will be a glut of gasoline byproduct that will need to be disposed of. > This occured early in the pandemic, when trucks were on the road, and cars > weren't. Refineries were facing shut downs because of lack of gasoline > storage, and diesel was facing shortages. Crude oil was negative for a while, > because there was a lack of storage. > > No one thinks this stuff through. Decisions and actions have consequences. > Electric cars make little sense for the majority. In urban areas, where > travel is limited to a few miles each way, sure. Visitors from other > countries are amazed at the wide open spaces in the heartland and out west. > In rural America they make no sense. > > So unless you eliminate a good deal of the population, and colonize the > remainder of folks into urban areas, mass electrification of personal > transportation is ______ (fill in the blank). > > *Locomotives are a diesel electric hybrid. > > > Rick _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
