It\u2019s interesting to see that, on a global scale, just 2% of the gas fuel resources are used for powering the world\u2019s transport industries.\u00a0 Obviously, oil is the big natural resource that\u2019s being used to power transportation needs, with 47% of annual oil production being tied up with powering the world\u2019s transport industries.\u00a0 Biofuels on the other hand, while a great idea, are still in the infant stages of being a major player. \u00a0So biofuels make up a pretty tiny proportion of the world\u2019s transportation fuel requirements.\u00a0 What would make using gas and biofuels more attractive, and what is holding them back?\u00a0 There are researchers who are working hard to overcome the downsides of Biofuels and gas.<\/p>\n
Biofuels should be the fuel of the future with crop fuels sounding like they should be a win-win scenario.\u00a0 Biofuel is mostly made from plant-based materials, and Biodiesel and Ethanol are the two main fuels that vehicles are able to run on.\u00a0 In a perfect world, we would grow masses of crops for obtaining the material used in biofuel production.\u00a0 However, the shortage of grain stocks and the surge in food prices has led to a big problem in the viability of sustainable production of biofuels.\u00a0 Corn and soy are correspondingly used for flour, baked goods, meat, dairy and processed foods containing corn syrup and soy, and most economic analysts agree that the increased biofuel production has contributed to the rise in food prices.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t the sort of news we need to hear.\u00a0 Ideally, land needs to be separated and portioned for biofuels over and above the land needed for food production.<\/p>\n
To gas we go, and, certainly, you can\u2019t argue with the very low CO2 emissions that come from burning gas as a transport fuel.\u00a0 Researchers are finding ways for making gas a better option to use as a transport fuel – as there has been one or two issues with gas powered vehicles. \u00a0A more positive finding shows researchers are looking at a gas fuel tank based on the serpentine tubes of the human gut.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n
Emissions from natural gas engines are 10% lower than those of an equivalent petrol engine. \u00a0However, there is a practical difficulty for gas because the combustion-ready density of methane is lower than for petrol, and about 30% more fuel is needed to cover the same range as a petrol equivalent vehicle. \u00a0To cope with a higher volume of gas fuel, the reality is that the high-pressure fuel tanks need to be fatter and heavier, which not only takes up a lot of space but it correspondingly dents what could be a better fuel efficiency.\u00a0 It also increases the price of producing the car.<\/p>\n
To save space, \u201cOtherlab of San Francisco\u201d, with funding from the US government’s energy research arm, ARPA-E, has found that the human body maximises storage capacity by folding the intestines back and forth.\u00a0 They\u2019ve endeavoured to design a gas fuel tank mirroring the serpentine intestine, so in place of the big, bulky, single large, high-pressure tank, multiple banks of thin, pressurised metal tubes are bent and distributed throughout the car.\u00a0 So a close up of the new gas fuel tank would reveal it folding back and forth, hugging the inside of the wheel arches, roof supports and front wings. They are also looking at designing a gas fuel tank with a flexible honeycomb-like assembly that is able to conform to any shape within the car.\u00a0 This technology, they reckon, could make cars running on natural gas a whole lot more attractive to motorists.\u00a0 I\u2019m not so sure, though, if I would want a potentially explosive gas fuel tank any closer to my body than necessary! http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/microzaymi-blog-single.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s interesting to see that, on a global scale, just 2% of the gas fuel resources are used for powering the world\u2019s transport industries.\u00a0 Obviously, oil is the big natural resource that\u2019s being used to power transportation needs, with 47% of annual oil production being tied up with powering the world\u2019s transport industries.\u00a0 Biofuels on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12202,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/12202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}