The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60 percent less than
those of conventional diesel fuel.
Not exact matches
ConocoPhillips teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc.,
of Arkansas in 2007 to convert waste fat from livestock animals and agricultural waste into
conventional diesel fuel.
Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group does specialise in turbine systems however, and its website makes claims that its turbine generators are as little as a half to a third the size
of a
conventional piston engine, runs 20,000 hours maintenance free and can run on virtually any
fuel - from petrol and
diesel to hydrogen, or propane.
Battery powered cars have environmentally unfriendly mining processes for the battery precious metals, and taking into account the shipping
of the various components and the huge battery weight it makes it laughable really they'll never handle as well as a
conventional petrol or
diesel car until battery tech either comes a huge way or the
fuel cell tech moves forward.
On the face
of it, excellent claimed economy is one
of the major aspects
of the Auris that set it apart from its rivals — Toyota suggests 80mpg is possible, although drivers who make frequent long, fast journeys are likely to experience
fuel economy closer to a
conventional petrol or
diesel car.
Diesels offer plenty
of torque,
fuel economy and range, but typically they will be found on compact class and higher cars and usually at a premium over
conventional gas engines.
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The new generation
of super
fuel - efficient high - tech vehicles — including hybrids, clean
diesels and electric cars — carry a higher price tag compared to their
conventional counterparts.
The
diesel hybrid prototype delivered zippy 0 — 100 km / h acceleration
of less than 8 seconds — but with
fuel consumption
of less than 4 - liters / 100 km (58.8 mpg)-- 25 % more
fuel - efficient than the
conventional diesel model with the same displacement engine.
The Passat GTE is just as able to carry a family
of five as its
conventional petrol or
diesel -
fuelled stablemates.
A doctoral student and researcher at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven has created a new type
of diesel fuel that produces significantly less soot than
conventional diesel.
The reality
of reaching peak global production
of cheap,
conventional light, sweet crude oil supplies will continue to force strong upper pressure on the cost
of crude oil, gasoline,
diesel and airplane liquid
fuels.
That would presume that the
fueling stations would provide the
fuel and perhaps endanger the delivery
of conventional diesel from their suppliers.
Investigations shown by Boehman et al. [83] on the structure
of soot particles for
fuels with a 20 % bio-
diesel portion indicated a significantly less organized (amorphous) structure in comparison to
conventional diesel fuel.
Cooking oil, palm oil biodiesel can reduce emissions relative to
diesel (11/28/2007) A lifecycle analysis
of biodiesel by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) shows that using palm oil derived from existing plantations can be an effective biofuel feedstock for reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to
conventional diesel fuel.
This type
of biodiesel produces far less toxic and global warming emissions compared to
conventional diesel fuel, and is sourced, produced, and sold locally.
Comparing the full lifecycle emissions
of greenhouse gases by the two
fuels from production through combustion in cars, Eric Johnson, editor
of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, and Russell Heinen, Vice President
of SRI Consulting, found that «biodiesel derived from rapeseed grown on dedicated farmland emits nearly the same amount
of greenhouse gas emissions (defined as CO2 equivalents) per km driven as does
conventional diesel.»
The biodiesel meets
conventional diesel quality standards and depending upon actual volume and the carbon intensity
of the
fuel mix, could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 720,000 metric tons per year.
A reduction in
fuel use and may reduce up to 25 percent
of greenhouse gas emissions compared to
conventional diesel fuel models.
All
of today's
diesel vehicles can use up to 5 percent biodiesel («B5»), which is blended into
conventional diesel under the specifications governing
diesel fuel (ASTM specifications).
Not biodiesel,
conventional diesel fuel: The plant will have a capacity
of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead
of ethanol.
The use
of biodiesel in a
conventional diesel engine results in substantial reduction
of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter compared to emissions from
diesel fuel.
With
diesel at over $ 4 a gallon, many truckers have already been slowing down to save
fuel, but no amount
of slowing down can reduce the emission
of conventional pollutants from the oldest trucks, which is the biggest problem currently facing the ports.
While natural gas has a slight environmental benefit relative to the use
of conventional liquid
fuels, such as gasoline and
diesel, the environmental performance
of natural gas can be greatly improved by procurement from renewable sources.
Called hybrids, or hybrid gensets, these systems often are made up
of a
conventional fuel (
diesel) generator, a -LSB-...]