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SPC to provide compressed natural gas station Posted: 04 August 2007 0035 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Dr Amy Khor SINGAPORE: Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) is likely to be the first petrol company here to provide compressed natural gas (CNG). Authorities are also working with other petrol companies to encourage them to supply CNG. This was revealed by Senior Parliamentary Secretary Amy Khor from the Environment and Water Resources Ministry at the launch of the Energy Smart Hotel Label Scheme by the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Friday. The country's first-ever CNG refuelling station that is accessible to the public is expected to start running by next January. The new CNG station will be located at Mandai Road, just off the Woodlands Road junction. Smart Automobile, which runs Singapore's first and largest fleet of CNG taxis, will build and operate the station. NEA has been checking out hotel premises to single out those which have gone the extra green mile and four of them have been chosen as the first recipients of the new energy label scheme. These four hotels are namely, The Regent, Shangri-la, Intercontinental and Changi Village. Recycling used cooking oil into diesel fuel is one of the initiatives that has propelled The Regent to the top of the list of eco-friendly hotels. Lee Baharrudin, Director of Engineering at The Regent Singapore, said: "We are reducing a lot of waste that is being thrown out by recycling metal, cardboard and even light bulb covers." In its rooms, lights are turned off and curtains drawn to minimise energy consumption. Bottles and newspapers are also collected for recycling. But the hotel's most eco-friendly feature is found in the car park as the boiler system uses energy from air conditioners to heat up the hotel's water tanks, thereby generating zero carbon emissions. Dr Khor said: "Energy efficiency really is a low-hanging fruit in our scheme to promote energy conservation and we think there will be tremendous potential and dividends that we can reap by exploiting this to the max, to encourage greater awareness as well as adoption of energy-efficient measures." The NEA plans to expand its energy label program to include shopping centres and schools

Hi Saw this technique to undo dents in autoblog. Looks interesting. Anyone tried? http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/29/video-c...compressed-air/ The idea is to heat up the dent to soften the metal and use compress hair to force the metal to contract and hopefully the dent pop out like in the video. Worst case is the super cooled part cracked and falls off... haha..