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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund

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In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? Investments in its portfolio cover carbon removal, carbon marketplace innovation and the circular economy, among others.

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Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund

GreenTechMedia

In January 2020, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, announced that the company had set a target of becoming carbon negative by 2030. What does going carbon negative actually entail? Investments in its portfolio cover carbon removal, carbon marketplace innovation and the circular economy, among others.

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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings

GreenTechMedia

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. Looking for a battery energy storage system?

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Renewables overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as Britain's power grid enjoys 'greenest year' yet

Business Green

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6

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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings

GreenTechMedia

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. Looking for a battery energy storage system?

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Drax Cancels Plan to Build Europe’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant

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’s largest power plant. GW of power output to biomass, with a remaining 1.3 It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. ” Drax said its negative-emissions BECCs plants will be privately funded. In recent years, it has converted some 2.6