Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Colmotores Assembly in Colombia launched awareness campaigns that engaged employees in reducing waste and sorting it correctly. All of these facilities treat their waste as resources out of place and employ a number of methods to give them a second or third life. Joinville Engine (Brazil).

GM 225

GM Colombia Waste Michigan 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. That kind of substitution alone reduces those carbon emissions by a factor of three. —Ernest Moniz.

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2011

The potential benefits of this research range from decreasing oil consumption to increasing options for American farmers. Goal: Improve sucrose accumulation in sweet sorghum through investigating the mechanisms regulating carbon allocation to stems. Stephen Kresovich, University of South Carolina, Colombia. x giganteus (M.

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South Carolina Production St. Louis Missouri 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

Renewable 247

Renewable Fuel Oil Diesel 247