Ayoob wrote:On a more personal note, I'm getting ready to install a vehicle CNG pump at my house, and install CNG fuel tanks in my vehicles. I'm hoping to get it all done by the end of the summer. The pump is $4K and allows me to pump nat gas into the compression tanks at the rate of about a gallon an hour. Overnight my ten gallon tank would fill up completely, and my wife's vehicle can fill up during the day.
The calculators tell me I'm looking at a 4.5 year break even vs 3.75 gasoline, I think that's about right. The convenience of fuelling up at home every night is also nice. The cars will still have full gas tanks but I'll probably fill them up with no-ethanol 91 octane race gas so even if it sits for a couple months there's nothing to clog up the fuel system.
Nat gas will probably be around longer than liquid gasoline, or will be viable longer, however you want to look at it. Apartment renters are going to be kind of fucked though, it will be tough to find a way to fuel them up.
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.
AgentR11 wrote:Nordstream 2 is complete. Now we get to wait and see if it is actually used, and what impact it'll have on LNG aspirations of the US.
Ayoob wrote:On a more personal note, I'm getting ready to install a vehicle CNG pump at my house, and install CNG fuel tanks in my vehicles. I'm hoping to get it all done by the end of the summer. The pump is $4K and allows me to pump nat gas into the compression tanks at the rate of about a gallon an hour. Overnight my ten gallon tank would fill up completely, and my wife's vehicle can fill up during the day.
The calculators tell me I'm looking at a 4.5 year break even vs 3.75 gasoline, I think that's about right. The convenience of fuelling up at home every night is also nice. The cars will still have full gas tanks but I'll probably fill them up with no-ethanol 91 octane race gas so even if it sits for a couple months there's nothing to clog up the fuel system.
Nat gas will probably be around longer than liquid gasoline, or will be viable longer, however you want to look at it. Apartment renters are going to be kind of fucked though, it will be tough to find a way to fuel them up.
The co-leader of Germany’s Green Party, a figure likely to have a key role in Berlin’s next cabinet, has called for the incoming government to immediately begin negotiations with Russia to fix the country’s worsening gas crisis.
dissident wrote:https://www.rt.com/russia/537759-berlin-gas-supply-from-moscow/The co-leader of Germany’s Green Party, a figure likely to have a key role in Berlin’s next cabinet, has called for the incoming government to immediately begin negotiations with Russia to fix the country’s worsening gas crisis.
Recall that the German Green Party was frothing at the mouth calling Russian natural gas "dirty" for a long time. It actively tried to sabotage the Nord Stream pipeline along with the rest of the clowns in EU-rope who have Russia derangement syndrome. Now these snakes are squirming.
For some context that you will never get in the fake stream western media: the gas fields that supplied gas to Europe via Ukraine for the last 50 years are basically spent. The major field development that allows Russia to export natural gas is in the Arctic. So Russia has to build new pipelines to deliver this gas from where it is extracted. Now why should Russia build pipelines to link the new supply to the rotting pipelines dating back 50 years that go through Ukraine? Ukraine has spent next to nothing on maintaining the Soviet gas pipeline infrastructure. It is much more decrepit then the part in Russia. The Nord Stream pipelines are predicated on rational economics. They have a length 2,000 km shorter than some politically motivated pipeline (new plus refurbished) link via Ukraine.
And EU-tards demand that Russia stop Arctic natural gas and oil extraction. Yeah, because the EU owns Russia. A collection of sanctimonious clowns with only two countries (Norway and Denmark) with Arctic shorelines which are vastly smaller than the span of Russia's Arctic coast. And don't chirp about CO2 emissions. Arctic warming has nothing to do with local CO2 emissions. It is a geometric effect because heat flux from lower latitudes (achieved via baroclinic eddy transport) is converging into a smaller area than the middle latitude band where it originates. Albedo reduction is not specific to local fossil fuel extractions sources. Global warming remains global warming and the EU is not in any hurry to shut its oil and gas industry down. That EU gas and oil extraction are falling is because of field depletion and not because of Greta Thunberg.
One big reason for surging fertilizer prices is surging prices of coal and natural gas. The urea in your urine is produced in the liver. The industrial kind is made through a century-old process that uses natural gas or gas derived from coal to produce ammonia, which is then used to synthesize urea.
China and Russia, two of the biggest producers, have restricted exports to ensure supplies for their own farmers. In China’s case, an energy crunch led some areas to ration electricity, which forced fertilizer factories to slash production.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/busi ... rices.html
Freight trucks worldwide are starting to be sidelined by a urea shortage. A wide-ranging variety of factors, from rising fertilizer and natural gas prices to an export prohibition, have strained the world’s supply of urea.
Urea is the primary component of the diesel exhaust fluid [DEF] necessary in ensuring that diesel combustion engines function within nitrogen oxide emissions standards across the developed world. A urea-water solution is injected into the exhaust stream of diesel vehicles before the gasses pass through a catalytic converter.
https://jalopnik.com/global-urea-shorta ... 1848201479
Ongoing shortages of replacement parts for failed diesel exhaust fluid quality sensors are believed to be causing thousands of trucks nationwide to be disabled and parked.
The sensors, which measure the quality and level of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) in the tank, normally retail for roughly $300. But due to global computer chip shortages causing a backlog the part is being offered for sale — in some cases on digital retail sites such as eBay — for as much as $7,000, according to some industry technicians.
“It’s part of the global chip shortage,” Paul Enos, CEO of the Nevada Trucking Association, told Transport Topics. “We’re seeing trucks parked throughout the country. Just here in Nevada, 300 trucks are parked waiting for quality level sensors.”
Enos said there is a fail-safe that’s built into the selective catalytic reduction system of 2010 and newer trucks. “If it senses too much [nitrogen oxide] it will derate the engine,” he said.
https://mtac.us/def-sensor-failures-sid ... of-trucks/
EPA is aware of how the global shortage of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) sensors is impacting vehicle owners, and we are working diligently with manufacturers to support them in providing solutions.
https://www.epa.gov/recalls/diesel-exha ... ge-updates
Ongoing shortages of replacement parts for failed diesel exhaust fluid quality sensors are believed to be causing thousands of trucks nationwide to be disabled and parked.
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