Riceviamo da Dennis F. Miller
Vice President & Science Advisor
Solena Group, Inc.
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Washington, D.C. 20004
202.682.2405
Chissa' se gli italiani che pensano solo ai guai di Berlusconi riescono a rendersi conto che il mondo va avanti. Buona lettura)
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Dear Sir: the Symposium agenda at MIT looks impressive, interesting, and mostly focuses on buildings and auto transport. I thought that in terms of ground transport an important missing component is the question of biofuels. For the EU major goals and implantation actions have been taken both for ground transport fuels, as well as biojet fuels for jets flying into EU airspace. We are also seeing this same fuels issue in regard to ocean going freighters that use now highly contaminated diesel fuel. Solena’s approach on biofuels is to produce a biofuel that contains no SOX or particulate matter with carbon neutral CO2 emissions. Thus, we are in the process of developing plants to produce a biomass based fuel for jet aircraft and the news release below touches on our efforts working with British Airways in London. We developing a similar biojet fuel plant for Lufthansa in Hamburg for its jet fleet. Similar projects are being discussed with SAS, Air France, Ryan Air, and Qantas, as well as most air line companies in the U.S. Our ASTM certified fuel when burned in a jet engine emits as noted above no SOX or Particulate matter and carbon neutral CO2. The same type of gasification plant again using a Fischer Tropsch unit, but producing sustainable FTDiesel fuel has the same emission benefits and we have been asked by Maersk to develop projects at 15 ports around the world where we would build sustainable FTDiesel fuel for their ship fleet. This same diesel fuel is the focus of a project in Indiana to supply trains with such clean fuel.
I would also like to note that Solena is working with several partners in Italy to build decentralized 5mwh net units powered by 4 tons per hour of biomass to provide renewable power. One potential unit in the Port of Venice would also employ our algae tank farm design so that all emissions from the gasification unit would be used to feed algae, which we would harvest every eight hours and then fed into a gasification unit. This very efficient closed loop system would have no emissions and is considered to be carbon negative by the EU. Thus, it will give the Port of Venice the power it needs without any emissions. Of course, on all of these clean energy projects in Italy, we are looking for government support, incentives, and assistance in moving them forward.
If you have any questions, please let me know. The following is our recent press release about the British Airways biojet fuel project in East London, UK:
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