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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
AUGUST 14, 2013
The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. Colombia has an abundance of biomass in the form of sugar cane.
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.)
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2011
The potential benefits of this research range from decreasing oil consumption to increasing options for American farmers. A rapidly growing, widely adaptable crop, sweet sorghum accumulates in the stem high concentrations of sucrose that can be efficiently converted to ethanol, making this a valuable candidate bioenergy feedstock.
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. The interim report just published is intended to contribute to the energy, security and climate debate.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 11, 2024
If I have 10 converter modules stacked in series to withstand the high voltage, what happens if one fails? Hitachi Energy , Siemens Energy , and Virginia Transformers have announced plans to scale up production with new facilities in Australia, China, Colombia, Finland, Germany, Mexico, the United States, and Vietnam. manufacturers.
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