Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Medium and heavy-duty haulage, construction, agriculture, and mining are all under pressure to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and going electric is an increasingly attractive solution. Hydrogen generators – fuel cell technology for BEVs?

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

The government has unlocked £5m of funding to support the rollout of innovative new technologies that will generate hydrogen fuel from biomass and waste feedstocks, it announced this morning.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets. Last summer Amazon announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio-jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A coalition of environmental and social justice organizations have filed a petition with state regulators to halt a hydrogen project by Oregon’s largest gas utility, alleging that the project poses health, safety, environmental dangers to residents already living with polluting industries. Hydrogen comes from various sources.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Progressive Energy says pilot project will provide evidence base to support switch from fossil fuel to hydrogen, as industry advances plans for UK's first hydrogen fuelled town. HyNet's 'industrial fuel switching' programme, which was awarded £5.3m

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If you are an innovator interested in redesigning our food & agriculture systems and developing nature-based solutions with our Director of Innovation Mitch Rubin , learn more about our funding opportunities and apply today! What areas in food, agriculture, and nature-based solutions are ripe for innovation in 2022? of global GHGs.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Such an extended and heartfelt profession of commitment to net zero was also clearly an awkward place to let slip that fossil fuels were still very much on the agenda, and within days of publication of the latest IPCC report. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue?

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products. Cellsense develops interactive bio-embellishments that create new possibilities for designers while eliminating microplastics and replacing fossil-fuel-based material at scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2019

Presented as a milestone in the effort to make aviation sustainable and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, start-up firm ZeroAvia announced on 14 August seemingly significant advances in developing a zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled electric powertrain.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about. No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2024

UK emissions are down 52 per cent since 1990 and fossil fuels last year provided just a third of UK power - change is happening Some good news for the Bank Holiday weekend. Emissions from transport, buildings, heating, industry, and agriculture remain far too high. per cent compared to 1990 levels.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. Instead, the money could go to community-driven solutions to move the region away from fossil fuels. of hydrogen is made in this way; 90% of it is ‘grey’, made using fossil fuels like gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

We investigated allegations of workers exposed to radioactive oilfield waste , reported from the frontlines of climate-fueled extreme weather and climate migration , expanded our coverage of the climate impact of agriculture , followed the ongoing buildout of LNG , and sent a team to COP27 , among other things. Canadian Hydrogen.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

” The Fascinating Process Behind Renewable Fuel Production The Carbon Zero 1 facility, designed by Aemetis, a global renewable fuels and biochemicals company, uses a unique production process that utilizes vegetable and animal oils as the main feedstock. Q2: What is renewable diesel?

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

RNG can also be produced via methanation, in which either synthesis gas from biomass gasification or carbon dioxide emissions from a variety of sources are converted into methane in combination with green hydrogen. . Looking Forward.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels. Biofuels Bust 1.0

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion on hydrogen. Meanwhile, $86.1

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The US delegation began using the word “unabated” in conjunction with phasing out fossil fuels for the first time. The UAE, COP’s host, forged a perilous middle path that delights neither end of the fossil fuel spectrum. To abate or not to abate, to phase down or phase out. Words matter.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“So, I can now support beginning our journey with respect to natural gas on two fronts: no new hookups for commercial and residential with limited exceptions; and working to reduce natural gas use in the existing load … and transitioning away from fossil fuel and toward electrification.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. It was a tough year for the green transition.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

EU leaders are expected to announce a major acceleration of its offshore wind ambitions later today, with the unveiling of a plan to increase capacity across the continent 10-fold by 2050 as the bloc steps up efforts to curb its reliance on Russian fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Chemicals also present a pathway for oil and gas products that are not combusted (for example, for the production of blue hydrogen to manufacture ammonia for fertilizers). This supports economic growth and job creation in regions heavily reliant on fossil fuel industries as the world transitions to clean energy.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Commercialize alternative energy resources such as hydrogen.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Green Hydrogen Catapult is a major corporate pledge to build 25 gigawatts of green-hydrogen production capacity by 2026.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, academic studies have detailed how the emissions produced by clearing land and fertilising, farming, and shipping many 'energy crops' can be almost as large, and in some cases larger, than the emissions resulting from the fossil fuels they are designed to replace. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Glasgow Climate Pact is clear: we are moving away from fossil fuels. Ultimately, COP26 has made coal - and fossil fuels more generally - an even less attractive investment proposition than they were before the start of the summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2022

It will produce “materials used in packaging, agricultural film, construction materials, clothing, and automotive coolants.” NREL is engaged in the analysis of hydrogen production through electrolysis, which requires massive amounts of water — water that is not available in South Texas but for desalination projects,” Summerlin said.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

At its core is an ambition for a fully decarbonised power sector by 2035, with electrification, supported by low-carbon hydrogen, leading to a phase-out of fossil fuels from surface transport, home heating and much of industry beginning without delay. The Government has proposed deployment levels of low-carbon options (e.g.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 14, 2022

The manufacturing industry is responsible for 31 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and is notoriously challenging to decarbonize—primarily due to its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and extremely high heat. Upcoming Sector Pitch Days will focus on agriculture, transportation, and electricity. Interested in attending?

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

degree pathway over the next decade include the electrification of road transport and housing; the reformation of the food and forestry industries; and the decarbonisation of power and fuel, primarily through the acceleration of the renewable energy and the expansion of the hydrogen fuel and bioenergy markets. degree pathways'.

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2021

Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate.”  Many pathways, one output  For SAFs, the input determines the process.

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