Can you name what country has come closest to meeting the Kyoto Protocols for reducing CO2 emissions? Yeah, didn't think so....its the big one that never signed the agreement. US of A.
How'd they do it without even trying? Fracking shale to get natural gas. And we are just getting started;
We already know about natural gas transportation for trucks, buses and fleets. Up to forty percent of oil use comes from only five percent of vehicles. Using natural gas to replace either gasoline or diesel makes perfect sense to reduce pollution, cost, noise and CO2
Another by product of natural gas abundance is replacing another 4% of the world’s CO2 from marine bunker fuel with either methanol or CNG or LNG. Replacing bunker fuel with gas could create significant demand worldwide as this from a recent Oxford Energy report on natural gas notes:
IHS Maritime reports that more than 40 container ships that are LNG-fueled or LNG-ready have been ordered or are under construction worldwide. United Arab Shipping Co. is building 10 large container ships that can be adapted to run on LNG. MOL also is building ships that can be converted to LNG operation. The list of operators building LNG-ready ships includes Nordic Hamburg Shipping and U.S. domestic operators Matson and Crowley Maritime.
By switching to LNG, TOTE is reducing NOx emissions by 98 percent, SOx by 97 percent, carbon dioxide by 72 and particulate matter by 60 percent in the Puerto Rico trade.
What about those wonderful battery-driven vehicles??
London’s new Routemaster bus has major battery issues. The bus, thanks to its “green” diesel-electric hybrid powertrain, is meant to be “the most environmentally friendly bus of its type”—according to Transport for London, anyway. Out of the 500 new Routemasters currently on the roads, however, 80 of them are running in diesel-only mode because of failed batteries, pumping out lots of pollution.
How'd they do it without even trying? Fracking shale to get natural gas. And we are just getting started;
We already know about natural gas transportation for trucks, buses and fleets. Up to forty percent of oil use comes from only five percent of vehicles. Using natural gas to replace either gasoline or diesel makes perfect sense to reduce pollution, cost, noise and CO2
Another by product of natural gas abundance is replacing another 4% of the world’s CO2 from marine bunker fuel with either methanol or CNG or LNG. Replacing bunker fuel with gas could create significant demand worldwide as this from a recent Oxford Energy report on natural gas notes:
IHS Maritime reports that more than 40 container ships that are LNG-fueled or LNG-ready have been ordered or are under construction worldwide. United Arab Shipping Co. is building 10 large container ships that can be adapted to run on LNG. MOL also is building ships that can be converted to LNG operation. The list of operators building LNG-ready ships includes Nordic Hamburg Shipping and U.S. domestic operators Matson and Crowley Maritime.
By switching to LNG, TOTE is reducing NOx emissions by 98 percent, SOx by 97 percent, carbon dioxide by 72 and particulate matter by 60 percent in the Puerto Rico trade.
What about those wonderful battery-driven vehicles??
London’s new Routemaster bus has major battery issues. The bus, thanks to its “green” diesel-electric hybrid powertrain, is meant to be “the most environmentally friendly bus of its type”—according to Transport for London, anyway. Out of the 500 new Routemasters currently on the roads, however, 80 of them are running in diesel-only mode because of failed batteries, pumping out lots of pollution.
