Gaseous Fuel

[zenkora]

One of my position in the past was at an assembly plant making Ford pick up trucks, Prior to this position I worked at a testing lab who was doing extensive research on finding a way to run diesel engines on natural gas. They were successful. That was 30 years ago. I like mazes to me electric is not the future, rather internal combustion engines is just change the fuel steel is easy to recycle. So why re invent the wheel.

The best alternative fuel is the one that doesn't require modification to run. Gasoline replacements do exist but are both expensive as hell and environmentally useless because of the fossil fuel energy needed to make them; hence the need for nuclear. And diesel is easy. Replace some of the oilfields with big, vertical hydro farms. Diesel is carbon-neutral if it used to be corn and will be again.

To me, natural gas is probably the worst diesel replacement for an individual owner. It might work for fleets and big rigs. But I wouldn't take a CNG conversion if it were free. I quite like being able to store 800 miles' worth of 6.0 food in my shed without it leveling my house, and my truck not being an explosive cruise missile, so the only alternative I'll accept is another stable liquid compression fuel.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

See the Cummins video above gas is gas hydrogen is gas, why I started this thread hydrogen can easily be made from water al you need is electricity to produce easy to transport and store. Only issue is hydrogen embrittlement.
I see buses here in Brampton running on natural gas, Knowing the technology was developed next city over where I used to work. I remember having a chat with a guy during my tour, I worked in the paint and coating lab He said the main issue at the time was catalyst's were still a bit of an issue for emissions, he felt confident this could be resolved in the future. I have no idea if Cummins found away around this. Either way a non issue with hydrogen.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I lived on a farm as a teenager, had three tractors two diesel, one gasoline. Yes the gas tractor was for having a gas tank so we could buy cheap gas no tax, as it was for the farm. FIlled car from this tank. That's how the game is played in rural places.

 

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The ammonia engine is almost here, partly developed in Australia, built in Japan, and now being trialed in China.

GAC & Toyota Unveil World's First Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I Like ammonia, boy does it like water.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

If this is true, game changer Whole new paradigm forget EV's internal combustion still on the table