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Semi trucks converted to run on biomethane from cow manure

Looking for a sustainable fuel to power your fleet of semi trucks? If you are a dairy farm, we'd bet that the one thing you've got too much of is cow manure. Hilarides Dairy happens to have this exact problem, and it's turning it into a solution. Over 10,000 cows will happily provide enough dung to generate 226,000 cubic feet of biomethane gas each and every day. That amount of gas (literally) is enough to cut 650 gallons of diesel fuel fuel per day from the farm's fleet of vehicles. The process goes something like this: Cows excrete their ... Read more →

FordonsGas Sverige creates Svanen, a fuel good enough to be ecolabeled Jeremy Korzeniewski

The world now has its first ecolabelled fuel. Great... what's it mean? First of all, the certification itself comes from the Nordic Ecolabel, "the official Nordic environmental award [that] is given ...

London gets its first biogas fueling station Jeremy Korzeniewski

Back in August, Gasrec and Iveco announced that they would be testing street cleaning trucks running on biomethane. Of course, it's kinda tough to use a truck on a fuel that's not available, so ...

Methane from landfills provides fuel for garbage trucks Jeremy Korzeniewski

Talk about going full circle. A garbage truck running on methane picks up the trash out in front of your home and deposits it in a landfill. Over the next few years, that garbage begins to ...

Flameless combustion could generate power with very low emissions Jeremy Korzeniewski

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Flameless_Combustion_Could_Generate_Power'; Until more eco-friendly alternatives become available, most of us are stuck burning fossil-fuels for our power, ...

New "corncob sponge" may be a breakthrough in methane, natural gas storage 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The merits of ethanol can be debated all day, with opposing viewpoints ranging from "at least it's better than dino-juice" to "it's barely better than hydrogen" to "it's our only viable option". While the truth probably lies somewhere in between the extremes, most agree that corn is not the best ...

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