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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Drax already receives over £800 million a year from the UK government to burn these pellets sourced from around the EU and the U.S., Aquaculture.

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Europe’s Green Hydrogen Revolution Is Turning Blue

GreenTechMedia

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. Blue hydrogen locks in dependence on natural gas, with all the price volatility and geopolitics that comes with it, and it also relies on the development of cheap and effective CCS.

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Google becomes retroactively carbon-neutral

AGreenLiving

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. As BBC points out, isn’t this something governments should be enforcing already?

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Hydrogen Hype Bubbles Over At German Gas Lobby Conference

DeSmogBlog

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Equinor, National Grid and Drax Offer Glimpse of Net Zero Economy

GreenTechMedia

A coalition of industry, power and oil and gas firms in the U.K. are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. Its biomass generators will be connected to carbon capture, utili z ation and storage (CCUS) te chnology.

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Under development: Top 5 cleantech innovations to watch in 2020

Envirotec Magazine

Many cleantech innovations are now market ready for major-scale application, with improved government funding providing the boost needed to support their commercialisation. Put simply, the term ‘cleantech’ describes a product that aims to reduce or mitigate negative environmental impact. Electrified cement. Hydrogen as a fuel source.