Posted On: 03/05/2014 10:03:44 AM
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For a number of years, Volvo Trucks engineers have been touting the potential of dimethyl ether (DME) as a good alternative to diesel. Now the truck builder is convinced that DME’s time has come.
“You can get it from a lot of sources—natural gas and biomass such as corn silage, agricultural silage, cow manure, chicken manure, leftover food waste,” Bill Hubbartt, vice-president of the Central Region for Volvo Trucks, said during the National Tank Truck Carriers Tank Truck Week, held October 28-30, 2013 in Houston, Texas. “This is science fiction stuff. If you had talked to people about this 15 years ago, they’d have said, ‘You’re crazy.’ ”
“You can get it from a lot of sources—natural gas and biomass such as corn silage, agricultural silage, cow manure, chicken manure, leftover food waste,” Bill Hubbartt, vice-president of the Central Region for Volvo Trucks, said during the National Tank Truck Carriers Tank Truck Week, held October 28-30, 2013 in Houston, Texas. “This is science fiction stuff. If you had talked to people about this 15 years ago, they’d have said, ‘You’re crazy.’ ”
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