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Emerging Technologies
HEI's Special Committee on Emerging Technologies (see below) has prepared two charts that summarize information on the timing and likelihood of use for new fuels from various feedstocks and for new diesel technologies. These charts will help HEI and others focus research and assessments on the most likely forthcoming technologic and fuel changes. Some regulatory agencies and diesel manufacturers have given useful input to the diesel chart, and HEI welcomes input from others. Please email comments to HEI's Director of Science, Jane Warren (jwarren@healtheffects.org).
Chart 1. Draft. (PDF, 6/10/03, 40 KB)
Emerging Technologies for Diesel and Diesel-like Engines:
Potential Emissions of Health Concern
Chart 2. Draft. (PDF, 6/10/03, 20 KB)
Years until Significant Commercialization of Transportation Fuels
About the Special Committee on Emerging Technologies
HEI's Board of Directors established the Special Committee on Emerging Technologies (SCET) in 2000 to advise HEI on new technologies and fuels and their potential negative and positive health and environmental impact. SCET assesses the likelihood of their widespread use in the near- and longer-term and evaluates the possibility that some aspects of their use may have unwanted consequences on the environment or on public health. This includes evaluating whether emissions from use of new technologies or fuels, while improved in some respects, may contain new toxic substances that may cause adverse health effects. SCET will communicate concerns about toxic substances to the HEI Research Committee, which will consider addressing these issues in its research program or in assessments. With the help of SCET, HEI hopes to provide information to inform decisions about technologies and fuels in a timely way.
SCET membership was selected to provide a broad range of technical expertise from government, industry, public interest, and academic organizations. Representatives of the HEI Research Committee on SCET provide health science expertise. For a list of SCET members, click here.
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