Methane hydrates are getting increased attention as a major new source of clean hydrocarbon energy. These enormous deposits of natural gas have never been developed commercially, but research and development has been promising, and expectations are that the gas could begin coming to market within a decade. Known as flammable ice, methane hydrates are molecules…
Continue reading →Check this link for a report I wrote on the impact falling oil prices is having on the LNG market in high horsepower machines such as mining trucks and container ships.
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The Canadian Gas Association, a leading industry trade group, issued a report in December 2014 promoting renewable natural gas in Canada. Titled, “Renewable Natural Gas Technology Roadmap for Canada,” the report offers very aggressive support for biomethane production as a means to both reduce waste and greenhouse gases while developing an underutilized renewable resource. According…
Continue reading →This article by Lynn Saunders from Australia explains the Earth’s carbon cycle and how soil reclamation can be used to sequester CO2. Most of the posts on my site are my original work, but I am making an exception here because this article is so comprehensive and I have not written much on this important…
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is often regarded as extremely dangerous and toxic with container ships called floating bombs. But is this perception accurate? The historical reality is that LNG has the best safety record of all common fuel types and is completely non-toxic. Of course natural gas vapors are flammable and present safety hazards that…
Continue reading →Published at Breaking Energy, Oct. 24, 2014 (.pdf) Elon Musk described the new Tesla Model D as a digital vehicle compared to conventional ICE autos which are analog mechanical machines. The Model D is an iterative upgrade of the Model S, but it presents two significant feature sets that demonstrate how the auto world is moving…
Continue reading →Published at FC Gas Intelligence, Oct. 14, 2014 Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission spoke recently at the North American Gas Forum on the expanding role of LNG as a marine fuel. There are two primary drivers that are causing this expansion of maritime LNG use, low cost natural gas now…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, Oct. 2, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, Oct 15 Electric Vehicles today are considered to be more expensive to purchase than their Internal Combustion Engine counterparts. But the purchase price of EV’s versus ICE vehicles tells an incomplete story about the comparative costs. While none of the EV’s on the market today are…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, Sept. 29, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, Oct. 14, 2014 I recently had the opportunity to test drive the Tesla Model S P85, the high performance version of the highly acclaimed all electric luxury sedan. Like many drivers of the Model S I was thoroughly impressed by the performance of this machine and after…
Continue reading →Breaking Energy, July 2, 2014 (.pdf) The Energy Collective, July 7, 2014 In the past I have been extremely skeptical of carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, but recently my opinion has evolved based on the sober conclusion that hydrocarbon fuels simply are not going away. Both supply and demand for coal, oil and gas continue to…
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