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ALTERNATIVEFUEL NEws Boeing stage trans-Pacific bio<strong>fuel</strong> flight Boeing and All Nippon Airways have declared their first ever trans-Pacific bio<strong>fuel</strong> flight a success. In the inaugural crossing, a 787 Dreamliner aircraft flew from the Boeing Delivery Centre in Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport; <strong>fuel</strong>led by a mixture of bio<strong>fuel</strong> derived from used cooking oil and conventional <strong>fuel</strong>. The flight cut about 30 percent off the standard carbon emissions for a trans-Pacific flight. 10 percent Germany’s green energy solutions Germany’s solution to a large part of its energy dilemma may lie in a muddy field in desolate, windswept flatlands in the northeast. In an area 75 miles north of Berlin that until now has attracted more birdwatchers than cutting-edge industries. Start-up Enertrag AG, with the help of partners Vattenfall, TOTAL and Deutsche Bahn, is operating one of the first plants to generate wind power and convert it into hydrogen. Politicians are said to be very interested and Hydrogen, among its many advantages, is predictable. It can be contained and transported without any carbon emissions. It can be used to generate of that reduction was credited to the bio<strong>fuel</strong> used. While the remainder was attributed to the efficiency of the medium sized Dreamliner aircraft. Osamu Shinobe, ANA VP hailed the ‘historic flight’ stating that “using sustainable bio<strong>fuel</strong>s across the Pacific Ocean highlights how innovative technology can be used to support our industry’s goal of carbon-neutral growth beyond 2020”. power and heat, <strong>fuel</strong> cars or go into natural gas pipelines as an extra ingredient. Hydrogen has been quoted as the only energy source that can safeguard energy supply over long periods. solar powered hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses San Francisco Bay area transit agency, AC Transit, recently inaugurated on-site solarpowered hydrogen generation for <strong>fuel</strong>ling for the agency’s <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses, using electrolysis equipment from Proton and a large 500 kilowatt solar power array. For years hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell vehicles and the hydrogen economy were to be the way to clean up the transportation system. A new project run by AC Transit, the transit agency covering the eastern half of the San Francisco Bay Area is implementing on-site hydrogen production using solar electricity and water to provide <strong>fuel</strong> for the agency’s twelve hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses. Hertz introduces CNG vehicle rentals If you’re traveling to Oklahoma City any time soon, Hertz will give you the option of renting a Honda Civic or GMC Yukon that runs on Compressed Natural Gas. The vehicles will have a Hertz Neverlost GPS System on-board that will assist with locating a CNG re<strong>fuel</strong>ling station. The state also has 70 CNG stations that are already in use or about to come south American flight uses bio<strong>fuel</strong> Chile has taken a leading position in the race for more sustainable commercial aviation. Last week, a one-hour LAN Airlines flight from Santiago to Concepción used a bio<strong>fuel</strong> that reduces carbon emissions. “The traditional aviation <strong>fuel</strong> comes from oil and it releases online. Hertz is, of course, playing up both the green angle and the fact that CNG is a domestically produced <strong>fuel</strong>. Hertz already rents CNG vehicles in Italy and the UK and CNG cars can be rented at a Hertz outlet at Oklahoma State University, but this marks the first time that the company has offered CNG cars at an airport location. CO 2 when used in planes. When using bio<strong>fuel</strong>, the CO 2 released is almost the same as that captured by a plant during its growth, so there is no additional release of CO 2 into the atmosphere”, explained Enrique Guzman, environmental manager of LAN. Food waste to <strong>fuel</strong> Oslo’s city buses News Stale bread, banana peels, coffee grounds and other food waste will be transformed into green <strong>fuel</strong> for Oslo’s city buses starting next year. The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will supply the <strong>fuel</strong> and also provide nutrient-rich bio-fertilizer for agriculture. The plant will be able to process 50 000 tonnes of food waste annually, converting it to environment-friendly <strong>fuel</strong> for 135 municipal buses as well as enough bio-fertilizer for roughly 100 medium-sized local farms. Biogas is a carbon dioxide-neutral <strong>fuel</strong> produced from biomass such as food waste, sewage sludge and manure. Currently, 65 Oslo buses are powered by biogas produced from sludge from the city’s sewage treatment plant. When the new biogas plant reaches its full capacity in 2013, the local bus company will have enough biogas for at least 200 buses. Fuel cell buses and cars begin operating Linde’s newest hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong>ling station has officially opened at AC Transit’s municipal bus operating division in Emeryville, CA in the US. It is <strong>fuel</strong>ling twelve <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses and up to twenty passenger cars a day. This is the first public hydrogen station in the San Francisco Bay area. It offers fast <strong>fuel</strong>ling at both 700 bar and 350 bar pressure with a delivered gas temperature of -40°C. Daimler tested <strong>fuel</strong> cell cars at the station on several occasions to show that it successfully meets all requirements; the station can fill four <strong>fuel</strong> cell vehicles back-to-back at a fill time of three to four minutes per car. The station is one of two being supplied by Linde North America, a member of the Linde Group, to AC Transit. Athens converts to CNG The city is studying the possibility of buying garbage trucks powered by compressed natural gas with the idea of changing the city’s fleet of vehicles to the alternative <strong>fuel</strong> source in the next few years. The City Council has approved a resolution to seek prices for compressed natural gas <strong>fuel</strong>ling stations, equipment and vehicles. The city would like to reduce its dependence on foreign <strong>fuel</strong> sources and spend less money on <strong>fuel</strong> for city vehicles. The city’s <strong>fuel</strong> budget this year is based on a $ 3.50 per gallon price, but the price of compressed natural gas is about only $1.40 a gallon. latest LATesT news, ALTerNATIve events, FUeL jobs News online – www.PeTrOLPLAzA.COM – www.PetrolPlaza.com 21
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