After a heavy snow, as motorists dig out their cars, railroads face a different task: Keeping the switches clear. That was the case on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) — the train that this writer, plus another 300,000 people, ride every morning — after the snowstorm that buried the Northeast last night. “The LIRR had […]
People familiar with the “Farmville” game that’s played on Facebook will feel right at home at a new web page created by the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC), dubbed “PropaneVille Farms.” The page is part of the PERC website agpropane.com, which offers comprehensive information on many agricultural uses of propane The page is billed […]
Meet the Go-Ped Cruiser, a propane-fueled scooter that putters up to 21 miles per hour and is street legal in California. With its quiet 1-horsepower engine, this little guy won’t pick up babes at the roadhouse, but it may impress a sensible environmental science major around campus. Propane makes it easy to fuel up on […]
A recent study is pointing to algae as a potential source of propane, suggesting that genetically-modified blooms could be filling propane tanks in a decade, according to coverage in the British magazine, The Engineer. No living organisms can emit propane. But the Directfuel consortium, a team of European and American researchers who developed the four-year […]
With winter coming, the Delmarva Peninsula — that three-state thumb of land running down the Mid-Atlantic — is stockpiling propane to brace against cold-weather shortages. The region lost its 20-million gallon emergency reserve last year, the Salisbury Daily Times reports, when Valero shuttered a Delaware facility that had provided Delmarva with about half its propane. […]