Thursday, March 02, 2006

Electric Outlets at Truck Stops Stop Idling Trucks A multi-topic article as is typical of the Green Money Journal. My bank already has all the features of EcoCash, without the marketing hype. The interesting part of the article is about truck stop electrification. Substituting Cable TV and Internet for pollution sounds good to me. ...The Climate Trust, the Truck Stop Electrification project deals with a ubiquitous source of GHGs - that of truckers idling diesel engines to run heating and A/C appliances while drivers sleep, rest, or just wait out federally mandated rest periods. Each night thousands of idling engines cause undue wear on machinery, emit harmful local and global air pollutants, and increase noise levels for drivers and neighboring communities. In a joint partnership that will eliminate 90,000 metric tons of GHG carbon dioxide over 16 years, (the average US auto produces about one metric ton of C02 in two or three months) The Climate Trust and Shurepower LLC will install 275 pedestals at seven truck stops in Oregon and Washington. Shurepower's electrified parking system is a low cost alternative to idling that provides grid-based electricity, cable TV, and Internet connections to allow drivers of long-haul heavy-duty trucks to shut down their engines and save fuel. Using the Shurepower technology is much cheaper than paying the costs of fuel for idling engines. Cool!! 1:54:22 PM    comment []

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