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ALTERNATIVE FUEL * USA - Converting cow manure into truck fuel
CAL,USA -Fleet Owner -Feb 13, 2009: -- Hilarides Dairy is trying a new method to minimize pollution and diversify energy sources in its trucks—converting cow waste to fuel, with the help of a $600,000 grant from the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Alternative Fuel Incentive Program... Rob Hilarides, the dairy’s owner, converted two heavy-duty diesel trucks to run on clean-burning bio-methane produced from his cows’ manure using an anaerobic-lagoon digester that processes the run-off of nearly 10,000 cows to generate enough bio-gas to run the two vehicles each day, CARB said. The process has reduced Hilarides’ diesel consumption by 650 gallons a day... The grant is part of $25 million allocated by the State of California in June 2006 meant to encourage the introduction of alternative fuels... The Hilarides project reduces organic compounds and greenhouse gasses while generating compressed natural gas, CARB said...
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