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Algae.tec & Luftansa
in biofuel trial
Australia biofuels company Algae.Tec and German
airline carrier Lufthansa have agreed to
evaluate algae oil produced from Algae.Tec’s
bioreactors as a sustainable source of aviation
fuel. An MOU has been signed by the
companies to seal the initial deal. Algae.Tec
grows fast growing algae capable of producing
high yields in converted shipping containers
to produce an oil that can be turned into fuel.
Significantly, the biofuel produced would
likely cost a fraction of the cost of jet fuel.
Lufthansa launched a 6-month biofuel trial
last July on regular scheduled flights. The
Lufthansa Airbus A321 is flying on a 50/50
mix of biosynthetic kerosene and regular fuel.
exxonMobil predicts
future for hybrid cars
One out of every two cars will be either hybrids
or an alternative-fuel vehicle by 2040,
ExxonMobil have predicted. Hybrids, which
rely on both gas and electricity for power, now
account for less than 1 percent of all vehicles
on the world’s roads. They should move into
the mainstream as governments boost fuelefficiency
requirements, ExxonMobil said.
Power for those hybrids, along with other
vehicles and a growing number of households
around the world, will increasingly come from
natural gas, nuclear power and renewable
energy sources like wind, ExxonMobil said in
its closely watched annual long-term energy
outlook. But the largest publicly traded oil
company also makes clear that oil will remain
king of the energy world for many years.
ev fast chargers at
Dutch bP sites
ABB, the leading power and automation
technology group, announced today that it
has started installing multiple fast-charging
systems for electric vehicles (EVs) at some BP
service stations in the Netherlands as part of
a nationwide trial. BP has an intention agreement
with Dutch EV charging operator The
New Motion to operate BP’s chargers as part
of a larger network of DC charging stations
throughout the Netherlands.
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Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in berlin
Berlin Airport will take centre stage in the
latest market trial of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
by General Motors’ European brand,
Opel. Its HydroGen4 vehicle will head to
Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which Opel Vice
President of Government Relations, Volker
Hoff, has dubbed an “ideal partner” as it possesses
the world’s first carbon dioxide neutral
gas station, which offers green hydrogen
totAL solar powered fuel station
A 14-year old fuel station of TOTAL Ethiopia,
located on the Djibouti corridor, has been
outfitted to operate using solar power. The
fuel station is the first of its kind in Ethiopia.
TOTAL Ethiopia had approached Tenesol,
a subsidiary company of TOTAL World
Slovenia opens its first CNG station
Slovenia’s first compressed natural gas (CNG)
filling station has been opened in Ljubljana
co-financed by the European Union under
the CIVITAS ELAN project. Ljubljana is
one of five cities participating in the CIVI-
TAS ELAN project, the others being Ghent
(Belgium), Zagreb (Croatia), Brno (Czech
Republic) and Porto (Portugal), that joined
together in a project “to ‘mobilise’ our citizens
by developing with their support clean mobil-
Professor creates high­tech fuel cell
Once-futuristic green energy sources may
become main stream sooner than imagined,
as a university engineering professor works
to develop a versatile fuel cell. University engineering
professor Eric Wachsman has been
designing this fuel cell that can use multiple
substances, such as natural gas, gasoline and
hydrogen, to power cars. Wachsman said
the public thinks of fuel cell technology as
New liquefied methane gas station
Greater Stockholm region’s first refuelling
station for liquefied methane gas, LNG/
LBG has opened. The filling station, Statoil
Järna, is part of the BiMe Trucks project in
which Volvo Trucks is one of the participating
companies along with AGA, which supplies
the liquefied gas. One of the project’s focus
areas is to build the necessary infrastructure
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produced from wind energy. It’s not the first
time that Opel has run a market trial on fuel
cell vehicles – in fact it started them back in
2008 and has involved a number of companies
including the likes of ADAC, Allianz, Axel
Springer AG/Bild, Coca-Cola, Hilton, Linde,
Pace, Schindler, Veolia and the NH Hotel
Friedrichstraße, all of which have tested the
Opel HydroGen4.
Group, to provide the photovoltaic solar
technology. The project, which cost around
one million birr, was undertaken by Vera
International Business Plc, its local partner
established in 2007 with a paid-up capital of
8.5 million birr.
ity solutions for vital cities, ensuring health
and access for all”. The CNG station was the
set up under cooperative agreement between
Geoplin d.o.o., the biggest supplier of natural
gas in Slovenia, Ljubljanski potniški promet
d.o.o. (LPP), a public transportation company
that serves the Municipality of Ljubljana and
sixteen suburban municipalities and utilities
provider Energetika Ljubljana d.o.o., part of
Javni Holding Ljubljana (JHL).
futuristic because hydrogen fuel cells, the
most popular prototype, cannot be widely
used until hydrogen filling stations are developed.
“They’ve all thought of it as based
on hydrogen and because of that they kept
thinking of fuel cells as future technology
because right now there’s nowhere to get
hydrogen, you can’t go out and fill your car
with hydrogen today.”
for liquefied methane gas in Sweden. In October
2010, Sweden’s first filling station for
liquefied methane gas was opened at Stigs
Center in Gothenburg. The project also encompasses
the establishment of LNG stations
in Malmö and Jönköping and there are plans
for additional stations to keep pace with the
increase in demand.