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What's New at the Alternative Fuels Data Center
A newsletter from WWW.Green-Trust.Org
SEPTEMBER 2002
Listed below are new publications and other
information made available in September through the U.S.
Department of Energy's
Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC). The AFDC is sponsored
by the Clean Cities Program in the Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy, and is managed by the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory. For more information, with questions,
or to subscribe to this monthly update, contact Wendy Dafoe
at wendy_dafoe@nrel.gov, or call 303-275-4470.
This update
is posted on the Web at www.ccities.doe.gov/toolbox/coord_news.shtml.
Final Results of the UPS CNG Truck Fleet Evaluation are
at www.ctts.nrel.gov/heavy_vehicle/pdfs/31227.pdf. Also
available
in hard copy from the Hotline. See http://www.ctts.nrel.gov/heavy_vehicle/natgas_pub.html
for other publications on heavy vehicle applications.
EPA
has a number of two-page Clean Alternative Fuels Fact Sheets,
covering issues related to the fuels listed
below.
All the fact sheets are linked from this EPA Web page:
www.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/fuels/altfuels/altfuels.htm.
Biodiesel
Propane
Ethanol
Electric Vehicles
Compressed Natural Gas
Fischer-Tropsch
Methanol
Liquefied Natural Gas
Fuel Cells
A recent Web page developed by Tiger Teams project
addresses the issue of Why Can't I Pay at the Alternative
Fuel
Pump? The project identified the issues behind implementing
a
universal card access system for alternative fuels.
Learn about the
results of their work at www.ccities.doe.gov/tiger_projects.html,
and you can learn more about Tiger Teams at www.ccities.doe.gov/tiger.html.
EPAct
Fleet Information and Regulations Program Activities and
Accomplishments in FY 2002. This is another timely,
useful publication from DOE's State and Fuel Provider
program, and
it summarizes their work in 2002. Available at
www.afdc.doe.gov/pdfs/32531.pdf. Print a copy for your Coordinator
Handbook or call
the Hotline.
Alternative Fuel Petition Program.
Fuel developers can petition DOE to have their product
added to
the list
of EPAct-authorized
alternative fuels. Petitions and associated technical
analyses and correspondence are included in a
public docket and
posted on this new Web site. You may also access
these documents
using a computer in DOE's Freedom of Information
Reading Room in the Forrestal Building, Washington,
DC. Currently
the Fischer-Tropsch docket is available at this
Web site. Future petitions will also be posted
electronically.
Find it at http://www.ott.doe.gov/epact/alt_fuel.shtml
Ethanol
and Fuel Cells: Converging Paths of Opportunity, published
by Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
This 14-page report describes the benefits
of merging research and production
paths for ethanol and fuel
cells, and calls for more attention to ethanol
way to power fuel cells deserves more attention.
On the
Web
at www.ethanolrfa.org/RFA_Fuel_Cell_White_Paper.PDF
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