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Greased Lightning: Golden Fuel Systems thrives as gas prices push customers to vegetable oil
Published April 7, 2008
Springfield-based Golden Fuel Systems is benefiting from skyrocketing diesel fuel prices by offering a parallel auxiliary fuel system that allows diesel vehicles to run on filtered vegetable oil.
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Against the Grain: Area startup Queen City Green rescues trees for wood products
Published Jan. 21, 2008
A local startup’s mission is to rescue usable wood that might otherwise be treated as debris and destroyed. Its main suppliers are Mother Nature and real estate developers who have cleared trees to make way for subdivisions or strip malls.
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Power Package: Mansfield company pursues patents for a new transportation power source
Published Oct. 15, 2007
Mechanical whiz Daren Luedtke says his idea for an alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles will revolutionize modern transportation.
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Sunny Side Up: Springfield company reaches upward to generate business
Published Aug. 27, 2007
Missouri's business climate for solar companies appears to be improving, and the owner of Springfield-based Power Source Solar Inc. is banking on it.
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Small-town Company, Big-time Aspirations: American Green Holdings specializes in alternative fuel
Published July 30, 2007
A Crane company formed in October specializes in biodiesel and alternative fuel technologies and already has a few celebrity customers plugging its EcoOutlaw, a motorcycle that runs on ethanol-blended fuel.[[In-content Ad]]
New academic buildings, residence halls in works for sesquicentennial.