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Will Augusta Fuel Trash Fleet with Biomethane?
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from the Augusta Chronicle
Waste hauled from Augusta doorsteps might soon be fueling the garbage trucks that collect it, if a $20 million plan to convert landfill methane to compressed natural gas succeeds.
Augusta, Georgia’s growing landfill, still barely a speck on the 1,200 acres it has to expand, has started producing more methane than it can sell. One proposal is to use the excess for fueling the city’s garbage collection fleet…Read more
At the 80th International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Porsche unveiled its new 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid concept. This is not your typical staid hybrid – it’s definitely a high-performance vehicle. Of course, we would like to see Porsche develop a line of CNG or CNG hybrid vehicles… Read more
Day Six: We were back on the trail early Saturday morning and crossing into California by 0900 hours. Dropping down out of the Sacramento Mountains we eased our way into the Mojave. With an annual average rainfall of just 10 inches the Mojave supports roughly 2,000 different plant species most notable of which may be Yucca Brevifolia, or the Joshua tree. Read more…
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Day Five: General Francisco de Coronado, and the first Spanish explorers, arrived in the Albuquerque area sometime around 1540; we had arrived around 2100 hours the previous evening. Heading out of Albuquerque on Friday morning, our first order of business was to refuel at the Clean Energy CNG station located at the Albuquerque airport. We had gone 600 miles since our last fuel stop in Elk City, Oklahoma. The Clean Energy station is an unmanned operation and after swiping our credit card we fueled up our shuttle and the DyneTek/TGT trailer with 3600psi CNG. Read more…
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Day Four: The Anadarko Basin, covering much of Western Oklahoma and the upper Texas Panhandle, was formed roughly 300 million years ago with the uplift of the Wichita Mountains and is among the most prolific natural gas plays in the continental United States. Departing El Reno we proceeded West into the heart of the basin. Elk City, Oklahoma lies within several miles of the Texas border and we arrived at the CNG refueling station there at around 1000 hours. This was to be our last source of available CNG until reaching Albuquerque, New Mexico, a distance of 600 miles. We would have to rely on our pioneering spirit, and the DyneTek/TGT trailer, to make it into Albuquerque. Read more…
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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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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
Prices for gasoline continue to drop at the pump, but will the price of a gallon of gas remain steady over the next year? Oil analysts say the current trend of lower prices simply reflect the weak fundamentals of the world oil markets.
The demand for petroleum products dropped sharply this year as American and European [...]
