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| Jordan using diesel to generate power |
| 2011-02-06 |
| [Ma'an] Jordan's national electricity company is using diesel to generate power after the country's gas supply from Egypt was cut off by an kaboom on Saturday, Jordanian media said. A blast at a terminal in the northern Sinai disrupted pipelines supplying Jordan with gas. Power company director Ghalib Al-Ma'abra said diesel and other heavy-duty fuels were being used to generate electricity, Jordanian state news agency Petra reported. Al-Ma'abra said the company's fuel reserve would be sufficient to run the power station for three weeks, but Egyptian officials estimated the pipeline would be fixed in one week, he told Petra. He said changing generators to run from gas to diesel would cost the company around 3 million Jordanian Dinars (around $4.2 million) per day. Jordan has been dependent on Egyptian gas to generate 80 percent of its electricity supply over the past three years. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Da Juice, of course |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-06 19:25 |
| #4 Geez, newc, try to keep up, willya? It's obviously BP and/or evil corporations. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-06 19:10 |
| #3 Whom is to blame for the Natural Gas exploding rig? |
| Posted by: newc 2011-02-06 15:36 |
| #2 I agree with the oil companies, who are quietly doing lots of research into algae-based biodiesel in the US. It is simple, cheap, scalable, produces almost year around, and we're already tooled to use diesel in a lot of vehicles of all sizes, from motorcycles to trains and ships. And we can also make lots of ethanol which is an ingredient in diesel. A good type of algae is 50% vegetable oil by weight, and can be pressed to release its oil, the remainder going for animal fodder. The vegetable oil is mixed with ethanol and lye as a catalyst, then filtered and mixed with 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative. Bingo. The algae is grown in gray waste water, and actually consumes waste CO2 and nitrous oxides from industrial production, which are very expensive to dispose of otherwise. So it makes a ton of money even before the first drop of diesel is made. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-06 11:01 |
| #1 The dependencies among countries is not such a good idea. The energy sources are cut off and you are screwed. The same is true of the U.S. dependencies. It is a strategic problem. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-06 08:05 |