March 6, 2013
What do locomotives have to do with transportation fuels? Maybe a lot. Warren Buffet, who owns BNSF Railway Co., the largest railroad and one of the largest consumers of diesel fuel in the US, is planning to begin testing the use of natural gas as fuel for the locomotives in the 6900 unit BNSF fleet. Others have been been experimenting [...]
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February 18, 2013
In this age of cutting edge, high tech everything, you have to love the fellow working in his shed and coming up with a more efficient way of running an engine on liquid nitrogen, or in this application, liquid air. Peter Dearman has patented his process and it’s called the Dearman engine. The basic operation is pretty straightforward. When a [...]
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