Won a Sustainability award!

[plym49]

The firm I work for has a Sustainability program, as many companies do nowadays.

To promote employee awareness, they ran a contest for the best 'Green' thing. Each employee entered their personal Green practice or project.

I entered my Deuce, citing the Hypercycle engine as more efficient than conventional compression-ignition engines, plus the ability to run on waste oil (and, hence, extracting the latent energy in waste petroleum).

Guess who won?

 

[eagle4g63]

Sweet keep up the good work

 

[plym49]

One of the best things was the greenies reactions: "What a good idea!" "Why don't they do that anymore?" "All cars and trucks should be like that!"

Indeed.

 

[Flyingvan911]

Nice!

 

[steelandcanvas]

Hey Plym, You didn't tell them it got Prius fuel ecomomy, did you? Congratulations!

 

[rronning84]

Congrats on the win.

 

[zout]

self deleted

 

[MarcusOReallyus]

Now thet raht thar is funny!


I will refrain from further commentary as it would likely be considered political.

 

[Scooteerr]

Guess who won?

The guy with the prius?...

Just kidding, lol

 

[plym49]

Hey Plym, You didn't tell them it got Prius fuel ecomomy, did you? Congratulations!

Well, I did mention the excellent mileage I happened to get last time I had it out on the highway - and that was with a GVW around 20K.

Hey, did you happen to see what has been happening with the proposed Tesla museum? Google 'Tesla Oatmeal' (a big fund raiser was very successful).

 

[Capt.Marion]

From someone that has studied sustainability alongside engineering in college, the ability to use a variety of fuels, especially renewable fuels and waste as fuel with little energy spent turning it into fuel, is a very sustainable idea.

Before people start being silly, "sustainability" is not the same thing as "being green" and a lot of the other silliness that people take too far. Some of that crap can be considered "sustainable" efforts, but there is a lot more intelligence that goes into most sustainable initiatives.

Heck, just having a product that lasts as long as our trucks do and are retain their usefulness and efficacy is a very sustainable model.




EDIT: WOW I used "sustainable" a lot in that post. I'm a bit of a nerd, I guess. OH WELL.

 

[plym49]

From someone that has studied sustainability alongside engineering in college, the ability to use a variety of fuels, especially renewable fuels and waste as fuel with little energy spent turning it into fuel, is a very sustainable idea.

Before people start being silly, "sustainability" is not the same thing as "being green" and a lot of the other silliness that people take too far. Some of that crap can be considered "sustainable" efforts, but there is a lot more intelligence that goes into most sustainable initiatives.

Heck, just having a product that lasts as long as our trucks do and are retain their usefulness and efficacy is a very sustainable model.




EDIT: WOW I used "sustainable" a lot in that post. I'm a bit of a nerd, I guess. OH WELL.

Logic = Good

Common sense = Good

Thank you.

 

[gungearz]

Congrats!!!...