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    Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources: Advancing the Nation's Energy Security
    Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources: Advancing the Nation's Energy Security
    Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources: Advancing the Nation's Energy Security
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    Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources: Advancing the Nation's Energy Security

    By Robert Clark and Mark Thomson

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    The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels. Natural gas can be used directly as a fuel, blended with diesel in modified diesel engines, and converted into a conventional liquid fuel—all at a modest cost. This book, written by Australia's leading experts in the field, demonstrates how using natural gas as a transport fuel could increase fuel self-sufficiency to 50–70 percent by 2030. And with three-quarters of all freight being moved by road, it's clear that these developments will have major benefits for Australian transport efficiency.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewSouth
    Release dateMar 18, 2015
    ISBN9781742247182
    Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources: Advancing the Nation's Energy Security
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    Robert Clark

    Robert is a fisheries and conservation manager with 20 years of practical experience of developing and implementing coastal and marine fisheries management. Robert holds degrees in Environmental Protection, Coastal Management and an MBA (Open). The majority of his career has been spent working in fisheries and MPA management and planning in the UK. He worked extensively as a sea going enforcement officer and qualified as a helmsman with the RNLI with extensive prior search and rescue experience. He has been responsible for developing and implementing successful strategy to turn around some of the poorest performing fisheries in the UK and in so doing delivering both conservation as well as economic benefits. Robert is a Council Member of the Institute of Fisheries Management and Chief Officer for the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority where he has overall responsibility for delivering MPA and fisheries management strategy.

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