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Day Three: We arrived around 1000 hours at Tulsa Gas Technologies where we were greeted by the President, a friendly and enthusiastic, Tom Sewell. Tom gave the the full tour of the Tulsa Gas Technologies (TGT) manufacturing facilities. TGT fabricates and manufactures a line of top quality CNG dispensers for end users and other distributors and assemblers. Tom was quick to point out that TGT fabricates all of the dispenser components in house, as well as, producing their own circuit boards and process controls. Read more…
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Day Two of our journey across America started early in Cloverdale, Indiana. The roads were slightly slippery but an East rising sun made quick work of the night’s frozen dew. We proceeded west on I-70 and crossed into Illinois mid morning. By 1100 hours we pulled off in Vandalia, Illinois for a heart smart breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits at the Chuck Wagon and were soon back on the road. Read more…
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Day One: Our planned departure being delayed by the installation of trailer wiring, we fueled up and departed the FirmGreen Green Energy Center at 1800 hours 22nd February, 2010. The FirmGreen Machine roared to life as all eight cylinders aspirated the cleanest commercially available fuel in the world: FGE’s biomethane or “gCNG” produced at the Franklin County Landfill in Grove City, Ohio. Just as our forefathers set forth westward across this great nation in search of manifest destiny, we too ventured towards the “New Frontier”; the “Green Energy Frontier”. Read more…
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Fleets are Turning to Alternative Fuels
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UPS and AT&T have announced major deployment of natural gas vehicles, and have plans to continue the trend toward alternative fuels. While such efforts do have a positive effect on public relations, their programs are the result of doing the math and seeing that NGVs will lower their fleet costs. Read the full story
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CNG Ambulance Goes On Duty in Palm Desert
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From My Desert.com – Faced with the need to replace an aging diesel ambulance last February, the Palm Desert City Council decided to explore the possibility of purchasing an ambulance powered by an alternative energy source, and determined that compressed natural gas (CNG) would be an ideal option. Read the full story…
In the past few years, the number and type of vehicles that operate on Natural Gas has proliferated – so long as you don’t need that vehicle in the USA. Mercedes-Benz has NG powered B Series vehicles available in Europe and Canada, a B170 NGT and B180 NGT.
Both models are bi-fuel, meaning they operate on either natural gas or… Read more
Fundamentals of a Landfill Gas to CNG Vehicle Fuel Project
Join SWANA and our members on January 13, 2010, at 1:45-3:00 PM Eastern time (10:45 AM-noon Pacific time) to discuss SWACO and FirmGreen’s Green Energy Center landfill gas to CNG vehicle fuel project.
Steve Wilburn, CEO of FirmGreen, Inc. and Albert Iosue, Assistant Director of Planning and Projects for SWACO will be on hand to discuss essential technical and economic elements of a landfill gas to vehicle fuel project that a municipal solid waste manager needs to know before embarking upon such a project.
Pike Research, a United States market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets, presents a study where anticipates a new period of growth for natural gas vehicles (NGV) sector in many parts of the world. The cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that the number of NGVs on the road [...]
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Interview with Miles George, VP of TransEco Energy, Inc.
1 Comment | Posted by gCNG host in Alternative Fuels Policy, Interviews
Miles talked with gCNG blog about TransEco’s involvement in CNG for transportation, and shared his view of where the market is going in the next year, both in the U.S. and globally. TransEco Energy is dedicated to the development and growth of alternative energy for the transportation sector. Read the Interview
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Inofe introduces “Streamline AFV Conversions Act”
0 Comments | Posted by gCNG host in Alternative Fuels Policy
Senator James Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma discusses the introduction of the Streamline Alternative Fuel Vehicle Conversions Act. This legislation aims to simplify the Environmental Protection Agency emissions certification process for aftermarket fuel conversion systems.
