Renewable transportation technologies

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:163335

Bull, S R ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)

The need for alternative and renewable transportation fuels continues to be high on the nation`s agenda. Substituting these fuels for petroleum can reduce dependence on foreign oil imports, improve air quality, and mitigate greenhouse gases. Renewable fuels offer the same advantages as nonrenewable alternative fuels, and, in addition, provide an inexhaustible supply. The largest potential for significant quantities of liquid renewable fuels is from the production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass such as wastes and energy crops. Advanced vehicles will provide dramatic fuel efficiency improvements and will likely have electric drive systems. An evolution of vehicles is expected to occur, beginning with an electric vehicle that fills niche markets in the near term, to hybrid vehicles by the year 2000, to fuel cell vehicles after the year 2005. With the combination of renewable fuels and high efficiency, advanced vehicles can move the nation toward a sustainable transportation system.

• OSTI ID: 163335
• Report Number(s): CONF-950729-; TRN: IM9604%%440
• Resource Relation: Conference: 30. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 30 Jul - 5 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 30. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference. Volume 2; Goswami, D.Y. [ed.] [Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)]; Kannberg, L.D.; Somasundaram, S. [eds.] [Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)]; Mancini, T.R. [ed.] [Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)]; PB: 658 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM
FUEL CONSUMPTION
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
TREES
GRAMINEAE
ALGAE
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
FOREST LITTER
MUNICIPAL WASTES
WOOD WASTES
HYDROLYSIS
GASIFICATION
PYROLYSIS
EXTRACTION