Finland wants to build the world's first "green highway," with service stations offering charging points for electric cars and pumps filled with local biofuels, the project manager said Thursday.
Finland
wants
to build the world's first "green highway," with service stations
offering charging points for electric cars and pumps filled with local
biofuels, the project manager said Thursday.
"The aim is to create the model for an ecological highway that could be
used even on an international level," said Aki Marjasvaara with the
Loviisa municipality spearheading the project.
"No other such project exists. This would set an example to the
world," he told AFP.
The project concerns the remaining eastern 130-kilometer (81-mile) stretch yet
to be built on a highway linking
Turku
on
Finland
's
southwestern coast with Vaalimaa near the Russian border.
The town of
Loviisa
,
located east of
Helsinki
and
near the beginning of where the last leg of the highway will be built, proposed
making the final stretch of road "green" and has taken charge of the
project.
The plan involves using waste and other resources from the region that the new
road will pass through to produce ethanol, other biofuels and electricity to
keep the most environmentally-friendly cars on the green highway running.
Pumps with fossil fuels will also be available for "normal" cars.
Other proposals include installing geothermal heat pumps and providing
information to users on their emission levels and the impact they are having on
the environment.
The project also aims to provide "smart" lighting for the new highway.
Systems would automatically switch off lights at entry points where there are
no cars and adjust lighting levels along the motorway to compensate for weather
conditions.
The Loviisa municipality is working on a study of whether the project is possible,
and the report outlining various options and cost is expected to be published
in March 2011, Marjasvaara said.
But "before that, we have to clarify if a project like this is big enough
to get E.U. support," he said.
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