Synthetic fuel manufacturing facility announced for Tasmania
Australia will soon produce synthetic gasoline and LPG, thanks to a new facility under construction in northwestern Tasmania. 0 See 3 pictures Tasmania will soon be home to Australia’s first synthetic fuel plant. Global synthetic fuel company HIF – which has received financial support from Porsche – has announced the establishment of HIF Tasmania, with the island nation to produce up to 100 million liters of carbon-neutral synthetic fuel per year. Synthetic fuels (or eFuels) are produced by harvesting CO2 from the environment, and then using renewable electricity to make hydrogen and combining it with the captured CO2 to produce different products used in cars and airplanes. The idea is that vehicles will only emit CO2 that has been captured and removed from the environment, rather than releasing new CO2 into the atmosphere by burning hydrocarbons derived from oil. HIF Tasmania said it would produce ‘eGasoline’ as a substitute for unleaded gasoline for use in cars, as ...