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Imagine how much carbon is released transporting all that crude oil and refined gasoline even before you burn it.
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
Imagine how much carbon is released transporting all that crude oil and refined gasoline even before you burn it.
- jcranmer 4y agoRelatively little, actually. Most of that flow happens via pipeline, which is by some distance the most energy-efficient means of transportation.
- thombat 4y agoPipeline physics astound me: the same single pipe can be used for a series of different products with only a small boundary volume between them needing to be diverted [0]. As a naive software guy I would have feared that across 170km and numerous valves and pumps cross-contamination would become problematic, but apparently not so (plus the definition of the fuel types had greater tolerances than laboratory-grade chemicals) [0] https://channelnz.com/what-we-do/terminal-pipeline-services/#:~:text=We%20distribute%20fuel%20via%20the,next%20door%20to%20our%20site https://channelnz.com/what-we-do/terminal-pipeline-services/....
- londons_explore 4y agoWhen you see a flare stack like this [1] running 24x7, wasting enough energy for a small town, you realise quite how cheap energy is to an energy company. It simply isn't worth doing anything about those losses when instead they can work on building another bigger refinery. [1]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XD5M9z3Kg8o/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XD5M9z3Kg8o/maxresdefault.jpg
- SigmundA 4y ago15% is lost in refining.
- ben7799 4y agoLots of oil gets shuttled around the world on ships, which emit lots of CO2. The "last mile" of oil delivery in the US is all with dirty diesel trucks as well.
- intrasight 4y agoNot so much an issue with crude oil, but with renewables it's an issue. The economics of driving tanker trucks to animal rendering facilities and to restaurants would not work but for the governments RINs programs.