GM built your truck with landfill gas

[Gorehamj]

John Goreham

Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com

4/28/2015

Every automaker needs to talk the clean energy talk and also walk the walk. GM is doing both. As one excellent example, the General Motors’ Fort Wayne Assembly Plant, which builds both the GMC Sierra and the Chevy Silverado, uses landfill methane gas to power about half of its operations. GM converts the gas to energy on-site having recently quadrupled its energy production.

 

GM's not shy about making its progress known either. In a press release, Rob Threlkeld, GM global manager of renewable energy, said “Renewable energy enables us to reduce risk at our plants and save money on energy costs – facts that prove there’s economic opportunity in addressing climate change. None of our U.S. plants use coal as an energy source.”

 

Do you think GM should do more to help reduce CO2 emissions, or conversely, do you feel it is strange that an automaker has to employ a global manager of renewable energy?

[j-ten-ner]

...or conversely, do you feel it is strange that an automaker has to employ a global manager of renewable energy? ...

 

 

No. I think that's the way to go.

And when you just imagine how the garbage creates usable energy then you'll see that we aren't that far away from the flux-compensator.

The aggregate in the pic is actually a prototype.

 

so long

j-ten-ner

[wurgs]

It's a great idea! Our landfill sends most of its gas to a Cargill plant.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Oooooo. So THATS why the new trucks smell like that. I figured the saleman just had some street meat.