Why liquified? Compressed NG works well and there is plenty of room for storage even on an adjacent car.
In Russia you may easily convert any vehicle using internal combustion to either natgas or propane for $200-1500. There is an industry since 1980s. I think 9 in 10 commercial vehicles are natgas powered there.
Meanwhile out here in rural USA we are stuck using propane(and getting skinned alive).
Since the engine only drives a generator, this may be a splendid idea. I wonder what the range of such a setup (one engine and one tank car) would be.
It doesn’t require much modification to allow a diesel to run mostly on natural gas. You just can’t run only on nat gas without a spark plug.
Keystone will reduce rail demand by about 20%! (NOT) Sorry Mr. Buffett!
And then new locomotives can replace the heavy reciprocating engine with a lighter turbine, and save even more fuel.
I am not quite understanding this,having just read an article about how natural gas is expected to be increasing in cost. Being just a consumer heating with natural gas,maybe this cost increase was directed at us?? Or maybe the article I read was completely wrong?
burning both diesel and liquefied natural gas...
Now with bigger explosions when the train derails!
Following up on C_A’s question, what would it take for rural propane suppliers to switch over to offering LNG?
A couple of Great Lakes iron ore freighters are being converted to LNG. And of course LNG carrying ships have used LNG as a fuel for their engines.
Can you say BOOM!
We don’t have to convert EVERYTHING! Some things work well just the way they are. Sometimes just tinkering around the edges is enough.
yet another boon pickens scam?