Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

  The adoption of hydrogen as a fuel is a key aspect of the net zero initiative. According to 2022 statistics, global hydrogen use touched 95 million tonnes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3%. As a fuel, hydrogen supports applications like heavy industries , seasonal energy storage, and long-haul transport.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. The climate technology innovation ecosystem is ready to play an integral role in providing the solutions that will bring these pledges within reach.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate-wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy. However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Utility Global, a Utah-based startup focused on solid oxide electrolyzer technology, claims to have received investment offers from oil majors after coming up with what it calls a hydrogen breakthrough. Blue hydrogen is one of several methods aiming to cut the carbon emissions associated with the industrial production of the gas.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running through pipelines to fuel furnaces, boilers, stoves and other building applications today? “We’ve got hydrogen in 20 percent blend already going into one very small network in the U.K., “That’s a good sign.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. To illustrate how the EPS can inform state action, Energy Innovation® and RMI developed a five-policy scenario and modeled this policy package across six states. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Trade body RenewableUK outlines a series of policy recommendations to enable the UK to become a global leader in the development of green hydrogen. Driving down the price of renewable hydrogen will be critical to delivering on its potential, the study adds.

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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. Farming also relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases, and drives deforestation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report also highlights the importance of increasing levels of lower-emissions technologies for seasonal variations, including hydropower, nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture, utilisation and storage, bioenergy, hydrogen and ammonia.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Facility will be built in stages and start producing 'green' hydrogen by 2025, under plans unveiled today. BP has announced it plans to build a major renewables-powered green hydrogen facility in Teesside capable of delivering up to 500MW of hydrogen production by 2030. Industries in the area account for 5.6

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Canadian Hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel gained significant traction as a climate solution in 2022, with governments and industry pledging billions of dollars towards new development projects. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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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. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. The first step?

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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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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With daily events at two Technology and Innovation hubs and a whole village for Startups (especially Breakthrough Energy-backed ones), it was visible everywhere you go. The US delegation began using the word “unabated” in conjunction with phasing out fossil fuels for the first time. Words matter.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The wide-ranging plans hail the potential for the basin to become a test bed for next generation offshore wind turbines boasting larger blades and taller towers, saltwater electrolysis plants capable of slashing the cost of green hydrogen production, and the development of advance catalyst materials for the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cells.

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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. Recent U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. Alberta, long the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry, is banking on hydrogen, too. “It

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The C2V Initiative received more than 130 applications from 26 countries, representing a wide variety of carbontech innovations, with carbon utilization product and process innovations and carbon capture and carbon sequestration solutions as the most prominent topic areas. Cemvita Factory (Houston, U.S.)

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. If these are scaled up and applied more widely and equitably, they can support deep emissions reductions and stimulate innovation.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

Bill Gates recently visited a climate tech startup in the Seattle area called Modern Hydrogen, which is focused on the production of hydrogen fuel and solid carbon.  H2 can be used as a carbon emission-free fuel, and solid carbon has a number of different industrial applications, including the aforementioned asphalt.

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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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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. If not sooner. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. This is also largely true across North America, and beyond.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

The 100-year old Saltend Chemicals Park is gearing up to become a test ground for hydrogen and carbon capture industrial decarbonisation technologies - BusinessGreen visits the UK's ground zero for net zero. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products. That's quite unique within the UK environment.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Photos I shot last year in South Louisiana illustrate the Gulf Coast’s rapidly expanding fossil fuel industry, and the groundswell of frontline community members, environmental advocates, and activists fighting to stop it. While “green” hydrogen fuel can be produced with renewable energy, that process is cost prohibitive for now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 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. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. The first step?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

However, as countries seek to decarbonise their economies, ammonia, produced by green hydrogen, offers a carbon-free alternative to fossil fuels, and the accurate measurement of emissions is an essential component of any engine development program.”. MJ/L) than liquid hydrogen (8.5 Background.

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