If you found this page you must have and interest in the subject.
I welcome you to write to me John at strokerengine@hotmail.com with questions, I may have an answer.
StrokerEngine in association with supporting companies has been developing a line of Propane & Natural Gas powered Engines.
These engines will all be V8 because that's what I like, muscle power.
These engines are designed for "off road" use only. Cuurently I am working on industrial stationary motors and 60,000lbs truck motors.
The government is way behind in their thinking of alternative fuels for cars. They impossed difficult certification proceedures for EPA approved CNG systems and what limited systems are available are expensive because certification can cost upward of $200,000
We can not recommend using these engines on the highway, that would be illegal, we only point out that "if" you could, you would lower your fuel cost, the amount depends on the current price of gasoline. I can provide Canadian made Utah approved CNG Fuel Injection Conversion Systems.
CNG sells for around $2.30 at a pump, and if you pumped from home about $1.50.
The governments needs to get onboard and allow wide spread CNG usage, and by the way it is safer than gasoline tank in an accident.
I built this web page as a resorce and plan to add to it./ If you want to discuss alternative fuel, please write to strokerengine@hotmail.com I don't have a lot of phone time presantly while I'm working on development.
Most natural gas engines found on the highway are in large trucks, buses and some fleet cars.
The few small cars using CNG are opperating using conversion kits. The engines we are building are intend as complete replacement units that provide as much or more power on CNG than the original gasoline engines.
We are still in development of our full line of engines as we move into higher production.
Currently we are building engines to order based on...
Chevrolet
Small Block 350 383 450 cid
Big Block 454 502 590 700 cid
Ford
Small Block 302 347 351 408 427 450 cid
Big Block 460 545 600 cid
Our goal in to make powerful engines that are not currently available.
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Natural gas is a fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, and pentane - heavier hydrocarbons removed prior to use as a consumer fuel —as well as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide.
Fuel
Gallon Gasoline Equivalent
BTUs/Unit
Gasoline (regular unleaded)
1 US gallon
114,100 BTU/gallon
Gasoline (10% MBTE)
1.02 US gallon
112,000 BTU/gallon
Diesel #2
0.88 US gallons
129,500 BTU/gallon
Biodiesel (B100)
0.96 US gallons
118,300 BTU/gallon
Bio Diesel (B20)
0.90 US gallons
127,250 BTU/gallon
Liquid natural gas (LNG)
1.52 US gallons
75,000 BTU/gallon
Compressed natural gas (CNG)
126.67 cu. ft
900 BTU/cu. ft
Hydrogen at Atmospheric Pressure
357.37 cu. ft
319 BTU/cu. ft
Liquid hydrogen
data needed
data needed
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
1.35 US gallons
84,300 BTU/gallon
Methanol fuel (M100)
2.01 US gallons
56,800 BTU/gallon
Ethanol fuel (E100)
1.500 US gallons
76,100 BTU/gallon
Ethanol (E85)
1.39 US gallons
81,800 BTU/gallon
Ethanol 10%
data needed
data needed
Jet fuel (naphtha)
0.97 US gallons
118,700 BTU/gal
Jet fuel (kerosene)
0.90 US gallons
128,100 BTU/gal
Electricity
33.56 Kilowatt hours
3,400 BTU/Kwh
One GGE of natural gas is 127.77 cubic feet. This volume of natural gas has the same energy content as one US gallon of gasoline (based on lower heating values: 900 BTU/CF of natural gas and 115,000 BTU/gallon of gasoline).
One GGE of CNG pressurized at 2,400 psi is 0.77 cubic feet. This volume of CNG at 2,400 psi has the same energy content as one US gallon of gasoline (based on lower heating values: 148,144 BTU/CF of CNG and 115,000 BTU/gallon of gasoline. Using Boyle's Law, the equivalent GGE at 3,600 psi is 0.51 cubic feet which corresponds to 14.5 liters or 3.82 actual US gallons.
The National Conference of Weights & Measurements (NCWM) has developed a standard unit of measurement for compressed natural gas, defined in the NIST Handbook 44 Appendix D as follows: "1 Gasoline [US] gallon equivalent (GGE) means 2.567 kg (5.660 lb) of natural gas."
When consumers refuel their CNG vehicles in the USA, the CNG is usually measured and sold in GGE units. This is fairly helpful as a comparison to gallons of gasoline.
Corn, tree pulp and hemp are sources for clean-burning alcohol, methanol and methane gas. These 'biofuels' contain no sulfur, the pollutant that causes acid rain. Growing the fuel also produces oxygen, to balance the oxygen consumed during combustion. Engines stay cleaner and the air remains much cleaner.
Hemp may be the most profitable and productive fuel crop that can be grown in many areas of America. Hemp can produce about 1000 gallons of methanol per acre, four times as much as can be produced from trees. Fuel can be produced locally, reducing transportation costs. The production process, called biomass conversion, is safe and clean. It would create a domestic fuel industry, freeing us from Middle East oil dependency, providing jobs and keeping our currency at home.
Hemp fuel needs no taxpayer subsidies, as oil receives. The Department of Energy estimated that fuel could be produced from hemp for about 36 cents per gallon. In New South Wales, Australia the Minister of Energy told the parliament they should consider burning confiscated hemp to produce electricity. "It burns at extremely high temperature, produces a lot of power and is cheaper (and much cleaner) to burn than coal."
Hemp was the subject of a 1991 conference held in Wisconsin. One speaker pointed out our government spends $26 billion each year to pay farmers not to cultivate their land. Instead of this waste of taxpayer money, farmers could grow hemp or other fuel crops. This could completely end our dependence on foreign oil.
BANNING HEMP
In the late 1800's hemp had trouble competing with cheaper cotton for clothes, jute for rope, and tree pulp for paper. By 1920, new processing equipment made hemp very inexpensive. This was the beginning of the end for hemp.
Sometimes laws arise out of greed and special interests. Other times, laws have good, but misguided intentions. The banning of hemp involved both. Two fledgling industries, oil and timber, ganged up against hemp. Anything made of petroleum can be made from hemp. The oil industry wanted cars to burn gasoline, not alcohol fuel derived from plants. Randolph Herst, the newspaper magnate, owned forests across the country. He wanted trees cut for paper, rather than using hemp.
Herst began publishing horror stories in his newspapers across the country about "marijuana". He made up the word based on lyrics in a Mexican drinking song. He fabricated stories of murderous Mexicans high on 'dope'. This was a word for narcotics, not hemp. The stories frightened and inflamed the public.
It was the time of the great depression. People had lost confidence in their ability to solve their problems. They wanted the government to solve them. President Roosevelt obliged by creating federal agencies to police every aspect of American life. One was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Alcohol prohibition had been a failure, so the bureau was looking for a new 'war' to undertake.
Hemp leaves are not a narcotic drug. No addiction to hemp was reported, even among hemp laborers. There was no drug problem in America to speak of. However, hemp smoking made a good target due to the inflammatory newspaper stories. The combination of special interest greed and misguided government intervention led to banning all hemp cultivation and possession in 1937. Imported hemp oil for medicine and industry was so important to America it was excluded from the ban.
Industrial hemp bill passes in California General Assembly
May 15, 2007
By: Hilary Oliver
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The California General Assembly voted 41-29 March 10 to approve legislation giving the state's farmers the right to grow nonpsychoactive industrial hemp. The bill is expected to be passed by the California Senate and come before the governor for signature before the end of the year, said Adam Eidinger, communications director for the nonprofit industrial-hemp advocacy group Vote Hemp.
Almost identical legislation was introduced last year, but vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who claimed the bill would put farmers in jeopardy of federal prosecution, since hemp is classified as a drug under the Controlled Substances Act. But this year the industry wants to make it clear to the governor that farmers would legally challenge the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's authority to interfere with the state's law before farmers would actually begin growing hemp.
Eidinger explained that if the legislation is passed, farmers—and perhaps even the state—will file a lawsuit to protect themselves from DEA prosecution. "The state could say [the DEA] has no authority here because the DEA only regulates marijuana," he said. "The logic is that [industrial hemp] is legal to import, eat and sell. It should be legal to grow."
Though Eidinger said he wouldn't be surprised if farmers decided to test the law enforcement themselves by growing hemp before getting judicial approval, he said, "We would urge farmers not to grow hemp until we get approval from a federal judge saying that the DEA should not interfere."
"It could be a very quick legal decision," Eidinger said. "If it's signed [into law] this year, it's not at all unreasonable that next growing season, we could be growing it."
Only weeks before California's vote, North Dakota's legislature changed its law to remove DEA licensing as a requirement for state licenses for growing industrial hemp. Vote Hemp is supporting a lawsuit, expected to be filed in the next few weeks by North Dakota-licensed hemp farmers, seeking to prevent the DEA from enforcing federal marijuana laws against them.
If the North Dakota or California farmers' lawsuits are successful, each state could implement its own hemp farming laws without the DEA's interference.
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