Transport

Managing motorcycles: opportunities to reduce pollution and fuel use from two- and three-wheeled vehicles

This report by ICCT reviews current trends in motorcycle emissions and fuel efficiency technology. Summarizes policy approaches to improve motorcycle emission and energy performance, and discusses what is required to implement these policies.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Fatumata Kamakat, Deborah Gordon
International Council on Clean Transportation
Tags:
Air Pollution, Alternative Fuels, Two And Three Wheelers, Electric, Fuel Economy Standards, Green House Gases, Transport, Mobility Planning, CSE, India, Global, Vehicles
Energy

Race to find the best alcohol

Scientists and companies around the world are working on microbiological processes to make bioethanol out of cellulose. They're also wondering whether butanol may not be even better.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Bernward Janzing
New Energy
5
91-93
Tags:
Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, Biofuel, Energy Technology, Germany
Energy

The way to crack the sugar dilemma

Ethanol from sugarcane is not an option available to water-deficient India
Subir Roy / New Delhi September 16, 2009, 0:36 IST

Ethanol from sugarcane is not an option available to water-deficient India.

Publication Date: 
16/09/2009
Subir Roy
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Bio Fuel Crops, Alternative Fuels, Ethanol, Biofuel
Air Pollution

Blended green fuel in Capital by next year

HYTHANE TO IMPROVE VEHICLES

Publication Date: 
04/09/2009
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Alternative Fuels, CNG, Hydrogen, Energy Efficiency, Energy, Auto Industry, CSE, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
Industry

U.S. Grants $300 Million For Alternative Fuel Vehicles

The U.S. Energy Department will award nearly $300 million to a clean cities program to help communities buy alternative-fuel vehicles, Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
27/08/2009
Ayesha Rascoe
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Alternative Fuels, Electric, Zero Emissions Vehicles, Economy, Energy Efficiency, Energy, Auto Industry, United States Of America (US), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Climate Change

Biofuel production harms the poor

The production of biofuels is fuelling poverty, human rights abuses and damage to the environment, Christian Aid has warned.

The charity said huge subsidies and targets in developed countries for boosting the production of fuels from plants such as maize and oil palm are exacerbating environmental and social problems in poor nations.

Publication Date: 
19/08/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Deforestation, Alternative Fuels, Climate Change, Biofuel, Poverty
Transport

Hydrogen-fuelled vehicles

Hydrogen is hailed as a non-polluting synthetic fuel that could replace oil, especially for transport applications. The technology to make this a reality

Publication Date: 
13/08/2009
Louis Schlapbach
Nature
460
7257
809
Tags:
Alternative Fuels, Hydrogen, Fuel Cell / Hydrogen, Transport, Energy Technology, Hydrogen Energy, Vehicles
Energy

Emami Biotech to set up biofuel project in Ethiopia

Emami Biotech, a part of the Rs 2,000-crore Emami Group, will invest Rs 400 crore in a plantation project over five years in Oromia in Ethiopia. The company will engage in plantation of biofuel crops (jatropha) and other edible and non-edible oil seeds on 100,000 acres allotted to Emami Biotech by the Oromia Investment Commission.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Bio Fuel Crops, Jetropha, Alternative Fuels, Biofuel, Ethiopia
Climate Change

Modeling corn ethanol and climate - A critical comparison of the BESS and GREET models

New fuel regulations based on life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have focused renewed attention on life cycle models of biofuels. The BESS model estimates 25% lower life cycle GHG emissions for corn ethanol than does the well-known GREET model, which raises questions about which model is more accurate.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Richard J. Plevin
Journal of Industrial Ecology
13
4
495
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Chemical Fertilisers, Carbon Dioxide, Alternative Fuels, Ethanol, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Biofuel, Electricity, United States Of America (US)
Transport

Alternative transportation fuels and vehicle technologies: challenges and opportunities

This report presents a side-by-side comparison of fuels and vehicles with the recognition that future technological advances or additional research into unresolved issues, such as the land-use impact of biofuel production, could alter findings and make certain options more or less attractive.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
& et al, Douglas Arent, Frank A. Verrastro, Erik R. Peterson
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Tags:
Alternative Fuels, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Vehicle Technology, Biomass, Biofuel, Transport, Fossil Fuels, Fuel Cell Vehicles, India, Global

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