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Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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—Steve Scrimshaw, VP at Siemens Energy UK & Ireland and a member of the UK Government’s Hydrogen Advisory Council. It can be used for storing large amounts of hydrogen in a liquid form that builds on existing global supply chain infrastructure. Ammonia has a high hydrogen density and is readily transportable in bulk.

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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

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From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. Other buildings will also start installing charging piles.

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SITA UK and Cynar to build UKs first commercial plants to convert waste plastic to diesel

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SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar’s first plant is built and operating in Portlaoise, Ireland.

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Stanford team increases power of corrosion-resistant solar cells; advance for solar fuels

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Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Four years ago, McIntyre's lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. —Scheuermann et al.

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The Superconducting Shields Behind MRIs’ Triumph

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and Ireland Section , which sponsored the Milestone nomination. Nearly 70 percent of the human body consists of water, and each water molecule has two hydrogen protons. The IEEE member is chair of the IEEE U.K. Magnetic fields and radio waves Images produced by MRI scanners aren’t really images in the usual sense.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area.

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Our new Australian myenergi HQ

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Our international expansion programme is building with impressive momentum, with subsidiaries already operational in Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands. “As eddi energy diverter allows you to maximise self-consumption of renewable energy, by using it to power pool pumps and heat hot water rather than diverting it back to the grid.