A planning study was made for DOE on alternate fuels for non-highway transportation (aircraft, rail, marine, and pipeline). The study provides DOE with a recommendation of what alternate fuels may be of interest to non-highway transportation users from now through 2025 and recommends R and D needed to allow non-petroleum derived fuels to be used in non-highway transportation. In the near term (present-1985), there is unlikely to be any major change in the fuels used in any of the four modes of transportation except that the average quality of the marine fuel is likely to get worse. In the mid-term period (1985-2000), there will be a transition to non-petroleum fuels, based primarily on shale oil derived liquids assuming a shale oil industry is started during this time. (ERA citation 05:033787)
Alternative Energy Sources for Non-Highway Transportation: Executive Summary
1980
26 pages
Report
No indication
English
Energy Use, Supply, & Demand , Transportation , Aircraft , Maritime transport , Pipelines , Railways , Biomass , Coal , Diesel engines , Economics , Electric motors , Evaluation , Fuel substitution , Fuels , Gas turbines , Nuclear power , Oil shales , Otto cycle , Solar energy , Spark ignition engines , Steam turbines , Stirling engines , Stratified charge engines , Synthetic fuels , ERDA/320201 , ERDA/320202 , ERDA/320204 , ERDA/320205 , ERDA/290000