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2006-04-21 China-Japan-Koreas

China develops alternative fuel to diesel and LNG

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 DME is essentially natural gas (methane) turned into a conveniently transportable liquid.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-04-21 00:26|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-21 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 DME is a gas that can be compressed like propane. It would be most suitable for busses already modified to run on propane or compressed LNG.

Posted by ed 2006-04-21 00:33|| 2006-04-21 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Dimethyl Ether? Isn't that very touchy and likely to go "boom?" (Not that natural gas is all that harmless.)

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-04-21 00:33|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-04-21 00:33|| Front Page Top

#4 DME

Great. Just what we need. Another excuse for the Greens to deplete the natural gas supply.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-04-21 00:39|| 2006-04-21 00:39|| Front Page Top

#5 If you go the the DME website it gives the impression that DME has been around for a while and was not invented by the chinese.

Posted by Phorong Phinemp3987 2006-04-21 10:29|| 2006-04-21 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 China, with their fuel issues, would be a prime candidate for biodiesel. I'm not sure they are all that good at feeding themselves though so producing enough to run cars might be a challenge. Perhaps seaweed beds or something. Still, I thought they were the culture with the long term view of things and I haven't seen a whole lot of impressive long term solutions to their oil issues. They watched what happened to the west and followed lock-step.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-04-21 10:40|| 2006-04-21 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 The West has done nothing for 30 years about the energy problem. It's been all talk. The actions have been legislation and regulation against sane solutions. China is at least ahead of us on that score. I preaching to the Choir be were are screw folks. Crunch time is upon us.

Posted by SPoD 2006-04-21 17:12|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-21 17:12|| Front Page Top

#8 While we're at it I don't understand why China hasn't cut a deal with South Africa to build a couple hundred pebble-bed nuclear reactors to provide their power needs. Its not as if Greenpeace is going to bother them.

And while they are at it why not create an Orion rocket ship. Truly take over space. Have the nations of the world complaining while also paying big bucks to get massive payloads into space. Who's gonna complain? Hell they could launch from Xinjiang, its not as if they care what the nuclear pollution might do to that Muslim dominated trouble-some corner of the Middle Kingdom.

I mean if China wants to give the finger to the world why not do it big. Why bluster over Tiawan when they could take the moon and have the Japanese Kow-towing to them for favors?

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-04-21 17:15|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2006-04-21 17:15|| Front Page Top

#9 #1: DME is essentially natural gas (methane) turned into a conveniently transportable liquid.

LNG has been around 50 years or more.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-04-21 23:13|| 2006-04-21 23:13|| Front Page Top

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