The Other Clean Gas

There used to be a market for Liquid Propane (LP) tractors some years ago.  Ran clean and engines lasted a long time.  Of course fork lifts ran off propane for years and probably still do.  Trailer House Nation may find this of some encouragement as well.

A New Biofuel: Propane - Technology Review (MIT)

"Peterson says the biopropane conversion has a good energy balance: not much fossil fuel needs to be burned during production. The reaction does not require the input of a large amount of energy because the heat that's key to the biopropane conversion is recoverable using a heat exchanger, a device that transfers heat in and out of a fluid."

"Huber and Elliott say the MIT biopropane process is novel. 'I've never seen anyone make propane with supercritical fluids,' says Huber."

The Other Clean Gas

There used to be a market for Liquid Propane (LP) tractors some years ago.  Ran clean and engines lasted a long time.  Of course fork lifts ran off propane for years and probably still do.  Trailer House Nation may find this of some encouragement as well.

A New Biofuel: Propane - Technology Review (MIT)

"Peterson says the biopropane conversion has a good energy balance: not much fossil fuel needs to be burned during production. The reaction does not require the input of a large amount of energy because the heat that's key to the biopropane conversion is recoverable using a heat exchanger, a device that transfers heat in and out of a fluid."

"Huber and Elliott say the MIT biopropane process is novel. 'I've never seen anyone make propane with supercritical fluids,' says Huber."

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

Since it is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have a few semi-random non-religious thoughts on Dr. Hendrix's "webscab" comments that inspired this celebration.  In particular, I want to comment on things beyond "it's cheap advertising and eventually sells product" that's the usual counter.

( Trying-to-figure-out-what-I-really-might-think here... )

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

Since it is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have a few semi-random non-religious thoughts on Dr. Hendrix's "webscab" comments that inspired this celebration.  In particular, I want to comment on things beyond "it's cheap advertising and eventually sells product" that's the usual counter.

( Trying-to-figure-out-what-I-really-might-think here... )