{"id":76115,"date":"2011-03-01T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenhellblog.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:43:14","slug":"clean-energy-central-planning-misfires-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/03\/clean-energy-central-planning-misfires-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clean energy&#8217; central planning misfires in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Dehli&#8217;s experiment with &#8220;clean&#8221; natural gas turned out to be not so clean after all.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A University of British Columbia study reports that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A pioneering program by one of the world&#8217;s largest cities to switch its vehicle fleet to clean fuel has not significantly improved harmful vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles \u2013 and worsened some vehicles&#8217; climate impacts&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exploring the impacts of New Delhi&#8217;s 2003 conversion of 90,000 buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws to compressed natural gas (CNG), a &#8220;clean&#8221; fuel, the study found that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; CNG produced only minor reductions in emissions that cause air pollution and an increase in emissions that negatively impact climate change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the researchers,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; the New Delhi&#8217;s program could have achieved greater emission reductions at a cheaper price by simply upgrading two-stroke models to the cleaner, more fuel-efficient four-stroke variety&#8230; since as much as one third of CNG is not properly burned in two-stroke engines, producing high emissions of methane, a major greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. CNG use also produced substantial emissions of high particulate matter from unburned lubricating oil, which can appear as blue smoke.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The researchers say this study should be a word of warning to,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; other cities considering fuel-switching programs, especially those in rapidly industrializing cities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, where major auto-rickshaw fleets exist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/es102430p\">Click here for the study.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-03\/uobc-cfw030111.php\">Click here for the media release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Dehli&#8217;s experiment with &#8220;clean&#8221; natural gas turned out to be not so clean after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unintended-consequences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-jNF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}