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Topsoe and First Ammonia sign 5GW electrolyzer agreement for green ammonia

Green Car Congress

The production of 5 million metric tons of green ammonia produced per year would eliminate 13 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the equivalent of taking 9 million gasoline-fueled cars off the road. At 5GW, this would be the largest electrolyzer reservation of any type. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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Further, the cathode is automatically protected from O 2 gas release and overcharging through the shuttling of self-generated radical species soluble in the carbonate electrolyte. You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” It also displays stable cycling performance (only 1.8%

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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Rush to switch to low carbon generation. Slashing gas storage facilities. No new nuclear power plants operational. Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. Let’s list the key ingredients for this recipe of disaster. Outlawing fracking. Implementing a price cap for retailers.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The idea of self-sufficient cities is gaining currency in the European Union, which has set itself the ambitious task of cutting carbon dioxide (CO{-2}) emissions to one-fifth below 1990 levels by 2020 ? This may be the lowest cost energy storage solution just because we are going to make the batteries anyway. Well and good.

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