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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (398270)7/13/2008 9:25:09 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1575046
 
Most any IC engine, save diesels, can be converted to LNG.

You're talking about Conpressed Natural Gas, not Liquified Natural Gas.

a pump to liquefy it

You mean to compress it. Liquifying it would require getting it down to -260 degrees F. CNG's not a liquid.

Here is a grand strategy to get us off of foreign energy.

Not hardly. We're not self-sufficient in natural gas now and our imports are growing.

United States Natural Gas and LNG Outlook: Beyond 2010
Based on EIA long-term forecasts, U.S.13 natural gas consumption is projected to increase from 22.5 Tcf in 2002 to 26.2 Tcf in 2010 and 31.4 Tcf by 2025. Domestic gas production is expected to increase more slowly than consumption over the forecast period, rising from 19.0 Tcf in 2002 to 20.5 Tcf in 2010 and 24.0 Tcf by 2025. The difference between consumption and production will be made up by imports, which are projected to rise from net imports of 3.5 Tcf in 2002 to 7.2 Tcf by 2025.
Nearly all the increase in net U.S. natural gas imports from 2002 to 2010 is expected to come from LNG, with an almost 2.0-Tcf (42.0-million-ton) increase expected over 2002 levels. Net U.S. LNG imports are expected to rise from 5 percent of net U.S. natural gas imports in 2002 to 39 percent in 2010.
Over the forecast period, net pipeline imports from Canada are expected to reach 3.7 Tcf in 2010, and then decline as Canadian fields mature and Canadian demand increases. It is projected that LNG will become the largest source of net U.S. imports by 2015, as Canadian imports decline.

eia.doe.gov

BTW, the leasing ban on most of our offshore acreage prevents us from exploiting the natural gas that is likely to be there too, not just the oil.
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