Great scene: from show Landman: Windmills, Solar vs. OIL
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I still don’t understand why in the HELL we are not using our own natural gas. It’s 60% efficient, which is more efficient that oil, doesn’t require as much refining, and we have a huge amount of it. The only energy source that is more efficient at the moment is nuclear.
Even if we use our own natural gas for energy production, we still need oil for moving the equipment and machines. LNG is still less dense energy-wise than gasoline or diesel.
We should definitely capture it and use it versus burning a good portion of it off, though.
Oh definitely, we will always need oil for our heavy equipment. My thought was more along the lines of the smaller vehicles and home heating.
Smaller vehicles are terrible to run on anything other than gas or diesel. Even using E85 robs you of efficiency and shortens the life of your engine.
The only reason that you see like forklifts running on LPG or LNG is because they stay in a warehouse and they won't kill everyone inside with eventual carbon monoxide poisoning. But even there, compressed gas fuels are less desirable from a pure machinery efficiency, power, and utility point of view. (Obviously people breathing outweighs that)
So maybe only golf carts and small cars made for city usage?