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SUNY Orange men's golf places 11th at NJCAA Division III championships
Liam Parker finished 52nd overall to lead SUNY Orange golfers at the NJCAA Division III championships held at upstate Chautauqua Golf Club. The Colts finished last among 11 full teams, with 1,431 strokes, 295 behind champion Sandhills Community College, which shot 16-under-par over four rounds at par-72 Chautauqua Golf Course in western New York from June 3-6. Advertisement Parker posted seven pars and nine bogeys on day one; one birdie, seven pars and four bogeys on day two; two birdies, seven pars and seven bogeys on day three; and, two birdies, five pars and nine bogeys on day four. In all, Parker shot 49 over par. Daniel Conrad finished in 55th place, at 54-under. kmcmillan@ X / Twitter: @KenMcMillanTHR 2025 NJCAA Division III nationals SUNY Orange golfers: 52. Liam Parker 83-89-81-84 - 337 (+49); 55. Daniel Conrad 88-89-81-84 - 342 (+54); 65. Alex Miller 102-92-86-84 - 364 (+76); T70. Garrett McGovern 104-95-93-96 - 388 (+100); 72. William Siebert 105-97-93-102 - 397 (+109) Advertisement SUNY Ulster golfers: 59. Austin Uhl 89-88-86-84 - 347 (+59); 66. Jessie Rodriguez 89-86-90-100 - 365 (+77) This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: SUNY Orange competes at 2025 NJCAA Division III men's golf nationals
ABC News
25-05-2025
- Automotive
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Low-carbon sustainable fuels headed for F1 but cost could keep them from Australian bowsers
When Formula 1 cars nudge speeds of 330 kilometres per hour next year, hundreds of millions of people will witness existing engines and infrastructure working with a fuel once considered futuristic. The fuel burning inside the turbocharged V6 engines won't be gutted from the Earth like traditional fossil fuels; instead, most will be chemically synthesised and involve the recycling of existing carbon dioxide — making it close to carbon neutral. "It would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent," Liam Parker said, chief communications officer at Formula 1. "The technical analysis shows zero drop in performance, so you're racing green, you're providing a solution for the automotive sector and the wider consumer, but you're also giving the public and the fans what they want." Five different companies — many of them sponsors — will be supplying the 100 per cent synthetic and biofuel to the 11 teams on the grid, once again positioning Formula 1 as the breeding ground of the kind of innovation that trickles to road cars and other vehicles. Industry stakeholders believe these low-carbon liquid fuels provide a window of opportunity for Australia, claiming it can help connect the vehicles, ships and planes of today to a net-zero tomorrow, and create a multi-billion-dollar domestic manufacturing industry that would also bolster the nation's fuel security. "We estimate the Australian low-carbon liquid fuel market could be in the order of $36 billion a year by 2050, and a feedstock market of about $15 billion," said Rupert Maloney, executive director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), a Commonwealth-funded investment firm backing green initiatives. There are two main types of low-carbon liquid fuels: synthetic and biofuel. Both of them source carbon from the atmosphere when they're being developed, effectively recycling it once it is burned by an engine. But whereas biofuel is processed from organic material such as sugarcane, used cooking oil and sawmill residue, the latest synthetic fuel doesn't affect food production. It chemically synthesises the elements that make fuel: hydrogen and carbon. The hydrogen is split from water in a process powered by renewable electricity, while the carbon is either captured from the air using emerging technology, extracted from algae, or gleaned from sustainable sources like waste. The domestic biofuel industry is already growing as local feedstock is exported internationally, but industry stakeholders believe synthetic fuel has greater scale-up potential. At least two companies are looking at manufacturing synthetic fuel in Australia — HIF (Highly Innovative Fuels) and Zero Petroleum — with each expected to start construction on plants in 2026. HIF is aiming to produce 100 million litres of synthetic fuel a year once its manufacturing plant is up and running in 2030 — about 500 times more than its concept plant in Chile. The company, which counts Porsche among its investors, claims it is spending about $2 billion constructing the plant in Tasmania. "What we look for are locations where the feed stocks that we need to make this product are available and are also cost efficient," said Ignacio Hernandez, chief executive of HIF Asia Pacific. "One of the main ingredients that we need is renewable energy, and Australia is well known globally for having a big renewable energy potential." Meanwhile, Zero Petroleum — founded by former F1 engineer Paddy Lowe and chemical engineer Nilay Shah — is examining the feasibility of building a plant in South Australia. The facility would produce up to 10 million litres of synthetic aviation fuel, gasoline and diesel a year. Low-carbon liquid fuels are often described as "drop in" solutions, as they can work with existing petrol tankers, fuel bowsers and internal combustion engines. But there's disagreement on whether the fuel would be used in the nearly 16 million passenger vehicles registered in Australia. How much it costs at the bowser will be a key determinant. A compromise can be found by blending synthetic fuel with the fossil equivalent, lowering emissions and making it more affordable. "The cost of the product will come down, and eventually you're able to transition to 100 per cent synthetic, without impacting materially the cost to the final consumer," Mr Hernandez said. A key factor in the price coming down is the cost of renewable electricity, as wind and solar farms would power the manufacturing process to keep the carbon footprint as low as possible. "We need very low renewable energy costs in order to get that hydrogen price down," Max Temminghoff said, Mineral Resources Lead at the CSIRO Futures. "And then on the other flip side is the carbon dioxide. Pulling that out of the atmosphere currently is technologically not as mature and is a bit expensive, so that's what the CSIRO is working on." Instead, there is a concerted effort to transition cars and the infrastructure powering them to electric — but there's a long way to go to meet the CSIRO's target of 97 per cent by 2050. The latest data from the federal government, dated January 2024, reveals there are 15.7 million passenger vehicles registered in Australia. One per cent — or 159,460 — were electric. Vehicles powered by petrol or diesel made up 95.5 per cent — or 14,958,462 vehicles. "There will be an existing fleet of internal combustion engines, we think, still operating at that point [in 2050], and there needs to be a solution for those cars," HIF's Mr Hernandez said. The demand, policy and money opportunities suggest synthetic fuel will be used to power trucks driving interstate, ships travelling across oceans and planes flying internationally. "By 2050, about 30 billion litres in Australia will likely be hard to electrify and will likely require low carbon liquid fuels or other decarbonisation technologies," the CEFC's Mr Maloney said. The transition from fossil to low-carbon liquid fuels is already underway in some of these sectors. Qantas imported 1.7 million litres of sustainable fuel in early May, hoping to blend it at a ratio of 18 per cent with traditional jet fuel. The airline claims it could power the equivalent of 900 flights from Sydney to Auckland, reducing carbon emissions by 3,400 tonnes. But it had to shop overseas, importing the biofuel from Malaysia. "The creation of a domestic sustainable aviation fuel industry is key to our efforts towards the decarbonisation of aviation," said Vanessa Hudson, the chief executive of Qantas Group. The federal government is hoping to foster a low-carbon liquid fuel manufacturing industry in Australia, announcing $250 million in grants in March. "Australia has the know-how and skills to meet the crucial task of decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation, heavy transport and mining that rely on liquid fuels," Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said. But the industry is asking for the kind of regulations popping up in other parts of the world, including mandates that would require select sectors to blend a percentage of synthetic fuel with their current fossil stock. "Some of the mandates that are getting rolled out across Asia are in the order of 1 per cent blend, so it will not have a large impact on end use pricing," Mr Maloney said. "It provides an investment signal back to the production side of the market to develop these facilities, and that brings down the cost." HIF's facility could produce enough synthetic fuel to meet a quarter of Tasmania's demand, Mr Hernandez said, but instead it'll likely export supply to other countries. "There are other markets in the world that have more advanced regulation to support the uptake of these products," he said. Australia relies on liquid fuels for more than half of its energy demand, according to federal government data, but the number of local refineries has dwindled from seven to two. The nation's science agency believes making low-carbon liquid fuels domestically would help shore up the country's energy security. "Currently we import about 80 per cent of our refined fuels and we get those fuels through pretty extensive supply chains that are exposed to a range of geopolitical risks," the CSIRO's Mr Temminghoff said. "Being able to produce our fuels locally means that we have more control over the variables that go into the price. "We really see this opportunity as fleeting."
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13-03-2025
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City centre tower block to get new cladding
An apartment block in Hull city centre is to have new cladding installed to make it safer. Pure Block Management said it had received £2.7m from the government's Cladding Safety Scheme on behalf of the leaseholders at Kemley House in Ferensway. The building was built in the 1980s and divided into 34 flats in 2005. According to the company, a 2023 fire risk assessment and survey showed the cladding fell short of the latest standards. It made clear the previous cladding was not the same as that on the Grenfell Tower in London where 72 people died in a fire in 2017. Liam Parker, director of Pure Block Management, said the "very important project" is expected to be completed by the end of the year. He said: "Obviously the regulations around external cladding and insulation have continually evolved following the tragic events at Grenfell tower, with the focus quite rightly on ensuring fire safety is the priority. "Following the Grenfell fire we supplied samples of the cladding on Kemley House for surveys and the building was at that time deemed not to be a risk as it was not the cladding of concern at that time." He added the residents in the block will be able to remain in the building while the work is carried out, although there will be some noise disruption. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Cladding to be replaced to make building safer New deadlines set for fixing dangerous cladding What happened at Grenfell Tower? Pure Block Management
BBC News
13-03-2025
- Business
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Kemley House in Hull to get new cladding
An apartment block in Hull city centre is to have new cladding installed to make it Block Management said it had received £2.7m from the government's Cladding Safety Scheme on behalf of the leaseholders at Kemley House in building was built in the 1980s and divided into 34 flats in to the company, a 2023 fire risk assessment and survey showed the cladding fell short of the latest standards. It made clear the previous cladding was not the same as that on the Grenfell Tower in London where 72 people died in a fire in 2017. Liam Parker, director of Pure Block Management, said the "very important project" is expected to be completed by the end of the said: "Obviously the regulations around external cladding and insulation have continually evolved following the tragic events at Grenfell tower, with the focus quite rightly on ensuring fire safety is the priority."Following the Grenfell fire we supplied samples of the cladding on Kemley House for surveys and the building was at that time deemed not to be a risk as it was not the cladding of concern at that time."He added the residents in the block will be able to remain in the building while the work is carried out, although there will be some noise to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
