Vehicles powered by clean-burning and plentiful natural gas could become enormously more popular if the amount of natural gas stored at a given pressure were to increase by means of nanometer-sized catalysts placed in the fuel tank with the natural gas. The race to find the best material is on.

      According to Natural Gas Vehicles of America (NGVA) there are about 112,000 Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) on the road today in the United States; there are over 13 million operating worldwide; and there are about 1,000 NGV fueling stations in the U.S. – about half of them open to the public.

      A few hundred fueling station is far too little, but the potential for growth in this number is very great. At the U. S. Energy Information Administration 32 States in the U. S. are shown to produce natural gas and 24 of them do so in large amounts. This website also shows that the United States has a huge pipeline infrastructure motivated originally by home heating. There is no reasonable doubt that the number of fueling stations will grow to meet demand. In turn, the expected increase in demand is predicated upon a technical advance that theoretically can dramatically improve storage density.

      If you have patents, business plans, or any other interest in the further development of NGV businesses, please contact this website.