{"id":325,"date":"2009-11-08T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:05:48","slug":"britain-piloting-first-biofueled-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/britain-piloting-first-biofueled-train.php","title":{"rendered":"Britain Piloting First Biofueled Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group has embarked on yet another venture -- Virgin Trains, which seeks to replace traditional diesel trains with models run on biofuel.<\/p><p>Virgin Trains' pilot project will test a train running on 20% biological material (typically a type of vegetable oil) in Britain for six months.  If the test is successful, Virgin Trains will use the 20% mix full-time, with an eye toward engines run purely on biofuel.  Virgin Trains says that switching to biodiesel could cut emissions by 14%.<\/p><p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19094382\/\">MSNBC<\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eda6d_7557702-6893883340520886127?l=futurewire.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64e44_Futurewire?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64e44_Futurewire?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:aKCwKftKxY0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64e44_Futurewire?i=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:aKCwKftKxY0\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64e44_Futurewire?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:JEwB19i1-c4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/941ed_Futurewire?i=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:JEwB19i1-c4\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:dMcygGhlNJA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/941ed_Futurewire?d=dMcygGhlNJA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Futurewire?a=ebnWeLvf09o:3Bqk1cOeqjE:W1ccf-mKbkM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/941ed_Futurewire?d=W1ccf-mKbkM\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group has embarked on yet another venture -- Virgin Trains, which seeks to replace traditional diesel trains with models run on biofuel.Virgin Trains' pilot project will test a train running on 20% biological material (typically a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/britain-piloting-first-biofueled-train.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}