Greentown Labs

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrogen and carbon capture are both critical technologies in the fight against climate change and the road to economy-wide decarbonization. Osmoses closed $3M in pre-seed funding in November 2021. The post Osmoses Enables Hydrogen Separation, Carbon Capture, and More with Molecular Filtration appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. Today, several global trends and activities distinguish the renewed focus on hydrogen from what has been observed in the past. International certification scheme for hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . Hydrogen Placed ‘at the Centre’ of the Recovery. This is almost 50 percent more than the €1.1

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. It concludes that "there really is no role for blue hydrogen in a carbon-free future". Even if true though, the use of blue hydrogen appears difficult to justify on climate grounds.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

A flurry of funding rounds have underscored how many big corporates are keen to turbocharge the fledgling hydrogen market. Its pitch: the approach uses 80 per cent less electricity than electrolysis, another "clean" hydrogen approach. Electrolyser technology can generate large amounts of hydrogen cheaply. Molloy agrees. "We

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hydrogen has shot up the European legislative agenda in recent years, with politicians of all stripes touting its potential to help countries meet their climate goals. The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Proposal reportedly mooted for inclusion in Hydrogen Strategy, but campaigners warn low carbon hydrogen should be earmarked for decarbonising heavy industry rather than domestic heating. Proponents argue shifting the UK's methane gas grid to run on hydrogen can help the UK hit net zero targets by using existing infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new report argues replacing the gas grid with hydrogen is unrealistic for many buildings in the short term, but net zero heating has few easy solutions. It also announced plans for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity and systems capable of capturing 10 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

A new project exploring how hydrogen gas could be used to heat homes and deliver green energy will start performing tests from 2022, National Grid announced today. Costing £10m, the testing project will be delivered by DNV GL in partnership with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The battle for dominance of the emerging green heating market continued to intensify last week, as businesses await the government's long-promised strategies for building a UK hydrogen industry and decarbonising homes and buildings, both of which are expected to land this summer.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Changing the way we produce and use nitrogen fertiliser would make a significant difference to these headline-grabbing figures, and this is to be discussed at the Agri-TechE event “Putting the N in FarmiNg” on 24th March 2021. N2O and methane are also produced from the decomposition of animal manures under low oxygen conditions.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

anything other than diesel-only) from August 2021 to December 2025, and half of these need to have zero-emission powertrains. Hybrid vehicles are playing a strong role in Europe’s largest countries, and an unfortunate amount of investment is going to methane gas engines, especially in France, Spain and Italy.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Surging gas prices in the wake of Russia's invasion have made hydrogen and ammonia produced using renewables increasingly competitive, study finds. This has opened the door for green hydrogen and ammonia produced from renewable electricity to compete with unabated natural gas-based processes," the report states.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. billion (9 billion euros) from 2021. ‘Friend Methane!

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

New power-to-X fund planned for 2021. CIP said part of the proceeds will be used to create a new Energy Transition Fund, which will focus on decarbonization technologies such as power-to-X, or the conversion of electricity to fuels such as hydrogen and methane or other chemical feedstocks.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

I asked Otto Waterlander, Chief Commercial Officer at TES , how green hydrogen and green gas can both support European energy security in the face of the sanctions on Russia, while also taking a lead to support the EU meet its climate change obligations. The original plan was that by 2045 TES would supply 100% green hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Energy Networks Association plan touts major push to harness hydrogen and biomethane to heat homes and businesses. Moreover, it argues transitioning infrastructure to run on hydrogen can further support decarbonisation of carbon intensive industry, transport, power, and heat.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Ofgem announces fresh funding awards for cutting-edge hydrogen gas network and advanced transmission technology projects. The project aims to help understand how transmission assets could be used to transport hydrogen in the future to heat homes and deliver green energy to industry. The £12.7m

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Shell’s Quest project is a ‘blue hydrogen’ project in Alberta that generates hydrogen from natural gas and uses an on-site carbon capture capability to negate the otherwise carbon intensive process. Jacobson analyzed the Quest plant in their 2021 research paper “How Green is Blue Hydrogen?” Robert Howarth and Mark Z.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Thee government should aim to unleash commercial-scale heat pump projects instead of hydrogen for heating, argues Kevin Stickney, managing director of Erda Energy and part of the Pump It Up campaign. Well, with a whopping 392 mentions last year, hydrogen received more Parliamentary attention in 2020 than fracking in 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline. The Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub (WISHH) proposal is designed to land $1.25

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2020

” The first step needs to be slashing operational emissions, the report says, especially from methane leaks and flaring. In contrast, Shell, a relative leader, has committed to spending $2-3 billion a year from 2021 onward, up from its $1-2 billion today. But greater involvement in low-carbon projects must happen in tandem.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. As Boston Metal expands its efforts in electrolysis, many steel companies are placing their bets on hydrogen to curb emissions. In Brazil, some steel mills are mixing in biochar, which is made from agricultural waste.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

So much attention, in fact, new SPACs were viewed as coming to the public market at a “frenzied” pace, with more proceeds raised in SPAC IPOs from July 1, 2020 through April 1, 2021 than in the preceding 10 years. A consolidator of the best of those technologies could attract significant interest. The acquisition and re?purposing

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

You can leverage carbon fiber in various applications as a replacement for steel—think in transmission lines, in hydrogen-storage tanks—and these have gigaton-scale impact potentials.” “Enabling the widespread proliferation of carbon fiber is a large part of our vision. and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. ” Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It’s also easy to store on board and, unlike batteries or tanks of hydrogen, it doesn’t take away too much space from the cargo hold. Long term, however, the leading contenders are likely to be ammonia and hydrogen, two zero-carbon fuels in earlier stages of development. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Credit: Phoebe Cooke.

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