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UK Team to Race on GTL Diesel, Move to B50 Blend
14 March 2008
The British Eco Racing team’s Radical SR10 LMP1 prototype will compete on Shell GTL diesel in the American Le Mans Series opener, but the plan is to run on a 50% biodiesel blend before the end of the season.
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| The Radical SR10 LMP1 prototype. |
The car uses bodywork components made from 100% biodegradable hemp fiber and will run solar panels to power some of its electrical systems. It has been liveried in water-based, rather than petroleum-based, paint and its Dunlop tires will be re-cycled after use.
Eco Racing is the latest venture by veteran sportscar team manager Ian Dawson, whose Taurus team took diesel technology to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2004. he has spent the past two years developing his Volkswagen Touareg V10 engine (now built by AER) to run on a biodiesel made from the jatropha plant, in conjunction with D1 Oils.
We want a car with a low carbon footprint, because that is the way motorsport is heading. We are aiming to make the most economical vehicle, rather than necessarily the fastest car.
—Ian Dawson
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GTL should be illegal, very very bad for CO2
Posted by: John Baldwin | Mar 14, 2008 8:09:32 AM
Better than flaring off the excess gas, don't you agree, John?
(Have a look at a picture of the earth by night - flaring in the middle east provides about as much lighting as a couple of the major european cities together. Just to give an impression on how wasteful oil production really is - GTL is reducing flaring, and makes flue gas a sellable resource. In that context, it's really not bad at all, way better than simply buring it to no use at all (not even desalination...)
Posted by: realarms | Mar 14, 2008 4:26:39 PM
So GTL can displace conventional GHG's without adding any GHG's of its own.
Posted by: GdB | Mar 14, 2008 5:07:07 PM
I would imagine that GTL would be advantageous to use: a synthetic fuel should be more stable, predictable, and allow the engine to be more precisely tuned.
Posted by: GreenPlease | Mar 15, 2008 9:55:54 AM
