http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/10/port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-keeps-greener-truckin-on/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/10/port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-keeps-greener-truckin-on/#comment-8807 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:42 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6851#comment-8807 Trucking is a major area of potential conservation of energy. It’s got to be simple. But saving money could make more complicated, more acceptable. Safety is a big issue too. Anyway, I think DME is the replacement fuel of choice. It can be made from a lot of stuff, but the factories requiring the conversion and manufacturing would necessitate some glaciated wealth of the oil barons to melt. I doubt if they want to cut their own feet off. Another possible fuel to displace the dirty devil diesel is LNG, with a shell of LN2. The idea is to keep the flammable gas cool and comfortable with a liquid inert gas, for long-time storage, and somehow make the whole system explosion proof. Mountain passes, with government paved and paid roads, would be a good choice to test various ideas to capture kinetic energy, obviously promoted and also, eventually operated by the government. Everyone knows the damage to the environment, in noise and stink, of trucks rolling slowly, all day, all night, as they go up and down the obstacles of mother nature. Free ride on a oversized electric train? I think it would work, if the only price to pay, was a 10 or 15 minute delay. Could allow an hour of shuteye too, even during a snowstorm. I Dream on, as I drive.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/10/port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-keeps-greener-truckin-on/#comment-26328 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6851#comment-26328 Trucking is a major area of potential conservation of energy. It’s got to be simple. But saving money could make more complicated, more acceptable. Safety is a big issue too. Anyway, I think DME is the replacement fuel of choice. It can be made from a lot of stuff, but the factories requiring the conversion and manufacturing would necessitate some glaciated wealth of the oil barons to melt. I doubt if they want to cut their own feet off. Another possible fuel to displace the dirty devil diesel is LNG, with a shell of LN2. The idea is to keep the flammable gas cool and comfortable with a liquid inert gas, for long-time storage, and somehow make the whole system explosion proof. Mountain passes, with government paved and paid roads, would be a good choice to test various ideas to capture kinetic energy, obviously promoted and also, eventually operated by the government. Everyone knows the damage to the environment, in noise and stink, of trucks rolling slowly, all day, all night, as they go up and down the obstacles of mother nature. Free ride on a oversized electric train? I think it would work, if the only price to pay, was a 10 or 15 minute delay. Could allow an hour of shuteye too, even during a snowstorm. I Dream on, as I drive.

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