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What are the technical, infrastructure, and economic obstacles to natural gas becoming a transportation fuel.?
It is a lot cheaper then gasoline per btu. We have lots of it here. It burns cleaner then gasoline. With all this going for it their must be a reason we are not using it to fuel vehicles.
I suspect their are reasons we are not using natural gas as a vehicle fuel. What are they?
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- 10 years ago
There are many vehicle which do use natural gas. All the Buses in Delhi do run on natural gas! Any petrol vehicle can be converted to Natural Gas, but I have noticed that Natural Gas Vehicles generally run better on carburetor ignition better than electronic ignition, not sure why! Mechanics do also say that it is harder on the engine than petrol, again not sure whether that is technically correct!
I guess technically, this is not an issue. Infrastructure needs to be built, and is in New Delhi...
Hope I have answered the gist of your question!
Source(s): Various sources, what I have learned! - Anonymous10 years ago
with natural gas, it burns clean but the processes needed to get it to your car are extensive! the gas needs to be compressed into a liquid form, this requires compressing it as adding just the right amount of heat at the right time to make it change over. this needs to be contained in a tank that can hold the pressure and then transport it, you then need the system fitted to your car to hold and control the gas but the one thing people tend to forget if the formula of turning the liquid back into a gas again, it is very close to LPG or butane which has the number as follows, a 9kg gas bottle if you have them holds 16 litres of liquid gas, this expands 300 time to become a gas, it needs 7 to 12% of this gas with air to hold a flame which means one 9 kg bottle can create a flame the size of a large four bedroom house and the tanks normally use and fitted to cars are larger then this and you know how some people drive and the accidents they have and you want to put tanks of gas on these car?
