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Next-gen heat pump could cut energy bills and carbon emissions

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Around the world, about 40% of carbon emissions come from heating powered by fossil fuels. Innovations are urgently needed to improve the cost-effectiveness of heat pumps to compete with fossil-fuel-based heating technologies. It can be widely applied for all kinds of the heat pump applications.

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Liquid air: A cool option for energy storage?

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Katie Smith is a Technical Assistant with Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent, trade mark and design attorneys. Liquid air energy storage could play an important role in supporting the UK’s transition away from using fossil fuels for electricity generation. Energy storage.

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UK’s first all-electric cement mixer completes trial

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kg of CO 2 per mile for its fossil fuel equivalent [1]. With the same average capacity as a conventional diesel vehicle, it is expected to save 42 tonnes of CO 2 annually, with zero emissions per mile compared to 1.55

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Funding award for 28-year old Danish researcher’s green hydrogen breakthrough

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The green fuel can be used for trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles, and it can also be a way of storing energy from renewable sources when the sun is not shining, and the wind is not blowing. Today, green hydrogen is about three times more expensive to produce than fossil fuels.

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Water industry event discusses opportunity for hydrogen

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Baxter explained how historically hydrogen has been reliant on the exploitation of fossil fuels, but that there are ‘clean’ ways of producing it and trials and feasibility studies are taking place at water utilities globally exploring cleaner, greener ways of producing hydrogen. It is a circular economy of energy and waste.”.

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£2.65m green hydrogen project aims to advance emissions-free distilling ambitions

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Described as a “revolutionary technology”, the Dynamic Combustion Chamber (DCC™), patented by Jericho Energy Ventures, is being deployed in a bid to advance efforts to decarbonise Bruichladdich Distillery’s (Bruichladdich) operations following an extensive feasibility study during Q1 2021. The method.

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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

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The patented µDOES® technology is based on atomic emission spectroscopy. The switch from fossil fuels to electrically powered vehicles and renewable energy has dramatically increased the importance of battery technology. Conclusions.