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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 17, 2014
The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Reuse: Grand Rapids Operations’ in-house oil recycling saves GM $1.2 Joinville Engine (Brazil).
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.
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.
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.)
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