EcoNews - USA - WHS junior helps switch buses to biodiesel
Watsonville,Santa Cruz,CA,USA -Santa Cruz Sentinel, by EMILY SAARMAN -23 Feb 2006: -- Watsonville High School junior Roxie Brown wants to reduce the black smoke belching from district school buses. The solution may lie in biodiesel, a vegetable oil product that can replace diesel fuel... At a school board meeting Wednesday night, Brown reported on a pilot project to test clean-burning biodiesel. The project will convert two of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District's 100 buses to run on a blend of 99 percent biodiesel and 1 percent diesel known as B99. After three months, the district plans to evaluate the project and possibly convert the entire fleet to biodiesel, explained Mary Hoagland, transport supervisor for the school district...
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