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encourage bicycles, less car use, bio-diesel,
new technologies
Innovative ways of transport are
on the drawing board from our motor cars to the led
vehicles seem to be the future. Combine these green
fuels and new technologies we will shortly be moving
all over the place with very little green house gas
emissions. Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-based
diesel fuel consisting of short chain alkyl esters,made
by transesterification of vegetable oil, |
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which can be used (alone, or blended with conventional petrodiesel)
in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles. Biodiesel is distinguished
from the straight vegetable oil,sometimes referred to as "waste
vegetable oil", "WVO", "used vegetable oil",
"UVO", "pure plant oil", "PPO")
used (alone, or blended) as fuels in some converted diesel vehicles.
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"Biodiesel"
is standardized as mono-alkyl ester and other kinds
of diesel-grade fuels of biological origin are not included.
Car Bi-Fuel technology for methane made its debut in
1995 and the technology has undergone steady refinement
during its ten years on the market. Since production
of the latest generation of Bi-Fuel engines got under
way in 2001, sales have met with considerable |
successand more than 12, 000 Bi-Fuel cars have been sold in
Europe
The methane Bi-Fuel
cars offer better environmental properties and lower
running costs without impairing the driving pleasure,
comfort, safety or versatility. Available in most European
countries. Methane gas is available in most European
countries, with a total of about 2.000 public filling
stations - and the number is increasing rapidly, especially
in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
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