155 MPH Biofuel Truck Breaks Speed Record 105
An anonymous reader writes "A team of students from Boise University recently shattered the world land speed record for biofuel vehicles by traveling 155 mph in a vegetable oil-powered pick-up truck dubbed the Greenspeed. To achieve the speed record the vehicle was upgraded with a compound-turbocharged 5.9 liter Cummins straight-six diesel engine that produces 700 horsepower, and it ran on an oil mix consisting of cottonseed and sunflower oil."
Re:155mph isn't green using any fuel (Score:3, Informative)
Also, the Haber-Bosch process does not consume natural gas, it consumes hydrogen...
Was going to mod, but have to reply to this.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process [wikipedia.org]:
By far the major source of the hydrogen required for the Haber-Bosch process is methane from natural gas.