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Boeing stage trans-Pacific biofuel flight
Boeing and All Nippon Airways have declared
their first ever trans-Pacific biofuel flight a success.
In the inaugural crossing, a 787 Dreamliner
aircraft flew from the Boeing Delivery Centre in
Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport;
fuelled by a mixture of biofuel derived from used
cooking oil and conventional fuel. 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 biofuel
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
biofuels 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, fuel 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 fuel cell buses
San Francisco Bay area transit agency, AC
Transit, recently inaugurated on-site solarpowered
hydrogen generation for fuelling for
the agency’s fuel cell buses, using electrolysis
equipment from Proton and a large 500 kilowatt
solar power array. For years hydrogen fuel 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 fuel for the agency’s
twelve hydrogen fuel 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 refuelling
station. The state also has 70 CNG stations
that are already in use or about to come
south American flight uses biofuel
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 biofuel that
reduces carbon emissions. “The traditional
aviation fuel 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 fuel. 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 biofuel,
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 fuel
Oslo’s city buses
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Stale bread, banana peels, coffee grounds and
other food waste will be transformed into green
fuel for Oslo’s city buses starting next year.
The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will
supply the fuel 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
fuel for 135 municipal buses as well as enough
bio-fertilizer for roughly 100 medium-sized
local farms. Biogas is a carbon dioxide-neutral
fuel 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 fuelling station has
officially opened at AC Transit’s municipal
bus operating division in Emeryville, CA in
the US. It is fuelling twelve fuel 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 fuelling at
both 700 bar and 350 bar pressure with a
delivered gas temperature of -40°C. Daimler
tested fuel cell cars at the station on several
occasions to show that it successfully meets
all requirements; the station can fill four fuel
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 fuel source in the
next few years. The City Council has approved
a resolution to seek prices for compressed
natural gas fuelling stations, equipment and
vehicles. The city would like to reduce its
dependence on foreign fuel sources and spend
less money on fuel for city vehicles. The city’s
fuel 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.
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