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

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

AUGUST 5, 2021

Oil and gas giant signs up several more potential customers for hydrogen produced at its Teesside fossil fuel and CCS facility. The energy giant said the prospective deals announced today would take the government a major step closer towards its target for 5GW of hydrogen production capacity across the UK by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Oil and gas giant signs up several more potential customers for hydrogen produced at its Teesside fossil fuel and CCS facility. BP said the prospective deals announced today would take the government a major step closer towards its target for 5GW of hydrogen production capacity across the UK by 2030.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. ”  That leaves basically three options for decarb: electric planes, hydrogen planes, or cleaning up the fuel powering today’s fleet.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Access the full Market Framework in the Sightline Climate platform. 

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Renewable natural gas (RNG) derived from biogas, landfill gas, woody biomass and waste sources of carbon dioxide could provide a near-term solution while the world seeks to minimize or eliminate more carbon-intense energy sources such as coal and oil. . All these present ideal opportunities for the use of RNG.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. Green hydrogen? “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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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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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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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. But the investor was undeterred.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. Clean Hydrogen. And that's where the seaweed comes in.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

The plan also includes $1 billion to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost 10 percent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions About $215 million of that money will help fund projects for thermal waste treatment — methods that transform waste into energy that can be used for such things as heating.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

The company supplied a sampling of those projects: Alaska Airlines ALK : At a corporate level, we’re working to reduce carbon emissions with flights powered by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) provided by industry leader SkyNRG.

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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.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output. Other themes identified across the green promos included those highlighting efforts to reduce and recycle waste (3 percent of posts or 98 promos in total). ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

GreenLIB is pioneering a sustainable future by transforming battery waste into profitable, closed-loop solutions within the global lithium-ion battery market. Elemental Recycling ’s single-step, proprietary process recycles any and all plastics and tires into high-purity graphene and hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The difficulty is that each type of transportation - road, rail, aviation, shipping - requires a different strategy to curb emissions. Another option - particularly for heavier vehicles like trucks and buses where batteries are not practical - is hydrogen fuel cells. Aviation demand offsets efficiency gains.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ships need a one-time EEXI certification that they’ve attained the required level of energy efficiency, and existing vessels may need to implement new technologies like power limitation or waste heat recovery to meet these standards. CII reflects the energy efficiency of ship operation. Ease of Adoption: Easiest.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

On January 12, EPA took another critical step to implement the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP), with a proposed structure on the methane waste emissions charge. “Emissions Gap” in 2030 by Nearly Half, if Governors Deliver on Commitments What’s new with the IRA? Check out EDF’s blog for more on MERP.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Mango Materials has developed a technology that transforms methane into biodegradable plastic pellets that can be implemented in any supply chain and eventually decompose on their own. 3 — Reduce Food Waste. 43 — Aviation. ZeroAvia is bringing hydrogen-electric power to aviation to enable zero-emission air travel at scale.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The companies in our latest cohort are creating carbon-negative materials, extending the lifecycle of products already in use, reducing food waste, and putting an end to fast fashion. Upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners. Hydrogen-electric aviation. Why is that?

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

⚡ WasteFuel , a Los Angeles, CA-based developer of low-carbon fuels from waste, raised $16M in Series B funding from BP Ventures, Aileen Getty, Guy Oseary, i(x) Net Zero, Maersk Growth, NetJets, Prime Infrastructure Capital, and Time Ventures. 🚗 e.GO

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward. Geologic hydrogen raises $91M and heating and cooling efficiency draws in $67M.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

billion in lost value from the e-waste discarded globally each year — the expansive, dispersed nature of electronics supply chains has revealed diverse risks for a variety of industry players. Building Back Aviation Sustainably (Workshop): The global pandemic has thrown a wrench into the aviation sector's decarbonization efforts.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In other news, the largest US asset managers leave Climate Action 100+, the EU puts up $7.4bn for renewable hydrogen infrastructure, and geothermal enjoys a hot spring of funding and project success.  Not a subscriber yet?

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In addition, during his time in the Senate, Biden co-sponsored the Ocean-Dumping Ban Act of 1988 , which prohibited dumping sewage, sludge and industrial waste. Methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2, although it has a shorter lifespan in the environment.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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