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- From: pharris@roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au (Paul Harris)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Propane powered vehicles - enough propane ?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:28:50 GMT
- Organization: The University of Adelaide
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- In <1992Nov12.192800.13054@srg.srg.af.mil> akerson@deimos.af.mil (Pete Akerson - akerson%srg@uunet.uucp) writes:
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- >A warehouse where I was sweating for tuition used propane powered forklifts.
- >The exaust was a little smelly but not noxious. ( around 1982 or so. )
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- >Anyone know what the supply of propane is like compared to natural gas ?
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- Of course it is far easier to run a vehicle on propane than methane, but
- methane is a renewable resource, as well as being an ozone hazard. Natural
- gas is methane, which many people may not realise.
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- Regards, Paul Harris
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