Special Mission to Mongolia

(2005)
Documentary

In the summer of 2005, Sara Nuytemans and Jeroen Nooter drove a truck, fueled entirely by vegetable oil, from The Hague in The Netherlands to Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia. During the three month, 12,000 km trip they passed through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Today, the idea of using vegetable oil as fuel seems overshadowed by the projects of big oil, which are designed to create an image of environmental concern. But still, modern society does not use vegetable oil as fuel appropriately, in life-cycle terms, due to high energy consumption and a dearth of farmland. However, vegetable oil does present an opportunity in low-tech Mongolia, with its low energy consumption and vast open spaces.

Project of Jeroen Nooter and Sara Nuytemans. See also www.oldcargo.org

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Travel & Events

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• documentary
• sunflower
• oil
• vegetable
• PPO
• mongolia
• hanomag
• oldcargo

[mafasocarlo]

VERY IMPRESSIVE :)

[haarts]

Ongewoon mooi project.

Dit is niet te vertellen.

De beelden speken boekdelen.

Henk Aarts

[sokarn83]

I wont not try this in the sibirian winter...

I have a new truck and when the oil company add 5%, the diesel froze belowe -5.

I planing to do a tripp to russia or mongolia

with my truck.

Do you know any company who sends humanitary help from europe?