Green Cars News

APRIL 2, 2014

Toyota has embarked on a new scheme to make its Georgetown factory cleaner and greener by powering the plant with landfill site gas. Working in partnership with Waste Services of the Bluegrass, Toyota plans to capture the gas produced by decomposing landfill and use it to power the Kentucky facto[.].

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Toyota Kentucky Cleaner Waste 49

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Among its other product introductions at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, Peterbilt announced the limited production availability of the Model 320 Hybrid Class 8 refuse truck, equipped with Eaton’s Hydraulic Launch Assist ( HLA ) technology ( earlier post ). The Model 320 Hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Peterbilt Gas Hybrid Power 230

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. Roe-Hoan Yoon. Roe-Hoan Yoon.

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Coal Virginia West Virginia Waste 150