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155 MPH Biofuel Truck Breaks Speed Record

Posted by Soulskill on from the zoom-zoom dept.

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."

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  1. Re:155mph isn't green using any fuel by lobiusmoop · · Score: 2, 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:

    By far the major source of the hydrogen required for the Haber-Bosch process is methane from natural gas.

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