📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: German plant mixes renewable, fossil fuels, tracks CO2

A pilot plant in Germany’s Mannheim flexibly blends electricity-based or biogenic fuels with fossil fuels and digitally documents the CO₂ savings for each delivery. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is providing scientific support for the plant’s construction.

The ability to flexibly mix small quantities of fuels could therefore pave the way for the widespread use of reFuels.

From now on, tank trucks in Mannheim can load fuel blends that contain not only bioethanol, as is typical with the familiar E10 or E5 fuel grades, but also other renewable components such as electricity-based or biogenic fuels – so-called reFuels.

Pilot plant flexibly mixes these components and digitally documents

The pilot plant at the Exolum Mannheim GmbH tank farm flexibly mixes these components and digitally documents the greenhouse gas savings for each delivery.

“With the new inline blending plant, we can now, for the first time, mix precisely measured quantities of fossil and renewable fuels as needed and immediately document the climate impact transparently. This is a crucial step for the ramp-up of reFuels,” said Prof. Thomas Hirth, Vice President for Transfer and International Affairs at KIT.

“Regionally produced fuels can be blended in here. This promotes the use and ramp-up of production and thus security of supply in the fuel sector. With this project, we want to enable the use of more climate-friendly gasoline at the Lake Constance seaports and by the state police, as well as more sustainable aviation fuels at the state airports. Thanks to the digital infrastructure, the CO2 savings can even be displayed on the fuel receipt.”

Pilot plant is equipped with precise measuring technology

The institute revealed that the pilot plant is equipped with precise measuring technology and connected to three storage tanks containing different types of fuel: renewable, electricity-based, and fossil.

Sensors ensure that each blend is precisely mixed according to the specified proportions. Software calculates the amount of greenhouse gases saved for each delivery compared to a purely fossil-based bottling and documents the data in official reports. This allows companies to demonstrate improvements in their carbon footprint and meet legal requirements. The CO₂ reduction accounting thus provides an additional incentive for customers, according to a press release.

Plant mixes renewable and fossil fuels according to demand

Besides energy, industry, and households, transportation accounts for a large share of CO₂ emissions. Since not all transportation sectors can be electrified, liquid fuels will continue to be needed to meet climate targets. Regeneratively produced fuels, such as reFuels, have the same energy density as fossil fuels and are considered a promising path toward CO₂-neutral mobility. They are produced from agricultural and forestry residues, industrial and household waste, as well as from CO₂ and sustainably produced hydrogen, as per the release.

The plant opens doors for the widespread use of reFuels. “This will also allow renewable reFuels to find their way into the tanks of end consumers for the first time,” adds Dr. Olaf Toedter from the Institute for Piston Engines at KIT, who coordinates the project.

The plant mixes renewable and fossil fuels according to demand and proves CO₂ savings for every delivery.

Since 2018, the Ministry of Transport has been committed to scaling up the production and use of more climate-friendly fuels, alongside many other measures for climate protection in the transport sector. As part of the state strategy “Roadmap reFuels,” over 40 studies and implementation projects have been funded to date. The BlendBilanz4Mobility project is being supported with approximately €325,000.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 TOPINDIATOURS Eksklusif ai: Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a S

When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, he was the oldest man in the history of the United States to do so. Assuming he serves for his entire term, he’ll be 82 years and seven months old by the time he leaves office — breaking Joe Biden’s record of 82 years and two months.

And like Biden, some major questions are swirling around Trump as obvious signs of aging come to the fore. Speaking to the biographer Sidney Blumenthal and historian Sean Wilentz on their podcast The Court of History, Washington State University Professor of Medicine Bruce Davidson opined that Trump appears to have suffered a stroke that’s impacting his ability to move.

“My impression is that president Trump has had a stroke, and I think there’s several lines of evidence supporting that,” Davidson said. “I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body.” Based on what he’s seen, the doctor estimated the event happened “six months ago or more, earlier in 2025.”

“There’s video of him shuffling his feet, which is not what we’d seen him [doing], striding on the golf course,” the doctor continued. “He was garbling words, which he didn’t do previously, and which he’s improved upon more recently. And he’s also had marked episodes that have been noticed of daytime, excessive sleepiness, — medical term, hypersomnolence — which is characteristic of many patients after they’ve had a stroke.”

The most recent smoking gun, Davidson claimed, was a recent video of Trump gingerly walking down the stairs from Air Force One. As he descends the steps, the president grips the banister with his left hand, even though he’s right-handed.

“All of this is consistent with having had a stroke on the left side of his brain,” Davidson said.

While the assertion has some important implications for Trump himself, it would also mean that his entire administration has been lying to the American public about his health for months — echoing the health debacle surrounding Biden in his final years in office. That said, Davidson’s definitely not the first person to suggest Trump’s hiding a stroke in plain sight.

As questions of the president’s visible bruising and swollen ankles dominated headlines last July, the White House put out a statement admitting he had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. In mid-October, Trump was taken for a mysterious check-up at Walter Reed Medical Center, which the White House claimed was a routine physical — even though it turned out Trump had gotten an MRI scan.

Earlier this month, Trump contradicted the administration’s earlier claims, stating that the trip involved a CT scan, not an MRI, which he underwent to “definitively rule out any cardiovascular issues.”

Without being able to examine the president directly, even the best professional diagnoses amount to speculation at best — and given Trump’s history of offering up bizarre claims about his health, it’s unlikely the public will get any clarity any time soon.

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