Not exact matches
The New Plant Fuel «
Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to
use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it right now.
After all, aren't
diesels the
green cars, the ones that
use less fuel than petrol - run cars and therefore conserve natural resources and reduce global warming?
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) staff has released for public comment four new Tier 2 renewable
diesel (RD) pathways
using soy oil,
used cooking oil, tallow, and corn oil at the Diamond
Green facility in St. Charles, Louisiana.
One Hummer engineer shared his interesting idea for
greener paths —
use technology from the upcoming Chevy Volt to build a hybrid Hummer, since the torque of an electric motor paired with a small
diesel engine could make for an even more impressive off - roader.
As an important test bed for future technology, the Racing Lancers
used at the Dakar reflected Mitsubishi's ongoing efforts to minimize the automobile's environmental footprint with such features as clean
diesel power, bio-fuel capability and plant - based «
green plastic» body components.
TOXIC batteries and «
green»
diesel used in a state - of - the - art South Australian hospital to (hopefully) provide energy to the sick and dying when the wind stops or the sun doesn't shine!?
In addition to purchasing renewable electricity and
green natural gas for the event, GHG emissions associated with the
use of
diesel generators and event vehicles (i.e. shuttle buses and courtesy vehicles) will be neutralized through the purchase and retirement of high quality carbon offsets, helping to ensure event operations are carbon neutral.
As business
Green reports, 10 km of highway in Hesse will soon be equipped with overhead charging cables to be
used by hybrid trucks to run on electricity when juice is available, and to switch back to
diesel when it's not.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) staff has released for public comment four new Tier 2 renewable
diesel (RD) pathways
using soy oil,
used cooking oil, tallow, and corn oil at the Diamond
Green facility in St. Charles, Louisiana.
Compared to the
diesel trains in Canada that belch black fumes, these are clean and surprisingly quiet — and did I mention fast (Sweden's
Green Party promises to increase train
use by 100 % in the next decade if elected).
For bigger farms, such as those
using center - pivot irrigation (which is responsible for those giant
green crop circles seen when flying over ag land), solar power is an option, replacing
diesel, propane, or grid power as the motive factor in these systems.