Dear Leader says that the Politburo has made its 10 year plan, and everyone will be forced to get rid of their gasoline burning cars and convert to methane.
The reason for this is because burning gasoline produces slightly more CO2 than what is produced by burning methane. Unfortunately the politburo forgot to consider the fact that the same alarmists pushing the CO2 scam, also claim that methane is a 30X more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
If you take into account the greenhouse gas water vapor (which accounts for the 21 times CO2–do not know how this has been increased to 30 other than through exaggerations by watermelon type persons, who have no understanding) than methane actually produces more greenhouse equivalent CO2 gases than does coal for the same energy. On the otherhand if you ignore the water vapor than one molecule of methane gives one molecule of carbon dioxide.
The extraction, production and dispensation of methane leaks a lot of unburned gas into the atmosphere.
Gee, I wonder how we could destroy our auto industry?
We have a local trucking using liquid natural gas in their big rigs. I think that’s a good start for destroying a few motorists.
Where are they getting the methane from?
From where do leftists get everything?
Where are their heads?
🙂
I hope so. I want to avoid the coming ice age as long as possible.
I live in New Zealand. I had a CNG powered company vehicle assigned to me about 20 years ago. It went fine, not quite as powerful as petrol. It was tuned to be ‘dual fuel, which made injection/carburetor settings and ignition settings a work of art. I could travel about 240km on one tankful of CNG, and in those days there were plenty of places to buy CNG. That is not the case any more. I was always conscious though that the tank was a pressurised bomb. The bottle had a strict time limit as to its use by date. When the bottle was freshly filled it was very hot. When it had been drained it was icy cold. The bottle would have gone through quite a lot of thermal expansion and contraction – a recipe for crack formation. There came a time when the bottle had to be replaced (about 10 years I think) and it became uneconomic to continue. The company decided to go back to petrol, and I was happy that they did.
But the fuel tank in your car is not a bomb, because if it catches fire, it won’t cause a problem right?
For the four thousandth time – gasoline is below its boiling point, so it burns only at its surface where it mixes with oxygen. High pressure methane instantly spreads into a cloud and explodes.
I have witnessed a gas explosion, which destroyed my neighbor’s house in 1971.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IpYIvyCXv9w
Thanks Will. Yes I get that. In some respects a standard fuel tank would be less safe, ie: it wouldn’t be as physically strong as the gas bottle. I was always aware though; when driving, that in the trunk, just behind the back seat, was a bottle pumped up to thousands of PSIs of an inflammable gas. But thinking about it now; likely no worse than a tankful of petrol.
Gasoline pours out of the tank and burns. High pressure methane spreads into a cloud and explodes. There is no comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IpYIvyCXv9w
Wow. Scary video. We used to have a gas compressor and bottle cascade at each of our company depots to fill with CNG. In regard to the cascade of bottles, each bottle was probably about 1.8m long and 0.3m diameter, and about 20 to 30 bottles in the cascade. Obviously it was a lot more hazardous than any of us thought at the time. My work desk is currently about 100m from where one of the compressor and cascades was. Have to say that having seen your video, that I’m happy it no longer exists.
That explosion practically knocked me out of bed – 50 miles away.