Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. Switzerland moving to accept CO 2 -neutral synthetic fuels to reduce fleet emissions.

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Commercial CO2 Fuel Switzerland 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss research intsitute Empa’s future mobility demonstrator, “move”, is investigating three paths for CO 2 reduction in road traffic—electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels—against the background of a rapidly changing energy system. —Christian Bach, Head of Empa’s Automotive Powertrain Technologies lab.

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Production Water Hydrogen Switzerland 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Those teams producing fuels or potential intermediates include: Aljadix (Switzerland). Innovator Energy (United States). Low-Energy-Consumption CO 2 Capture and Conversion (United States). Dimensional Energy (United States). Led by Thomas Digby, the team is producing carbon negative biofuel. Coal plant. Coal plant.

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Convert Carbon Coal CO2 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

Solar-driven thermochemical cycles offer a direct means of storing solar energy in the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. syngas—from water and CO 2. This could potentially make the solar fuel production chain much more economical.

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Water Solar Fuel Production 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). For the first time, the energy needed will be supplied from the renewable source of hydropower. High load-flexibility.

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Audi Diesel Carbon Power 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Schmidt, head of the Energy and Environment Division at PSI. —Brigitte Buchmann, head of the Mobility, Energy, and Environment Department at Empa. PSI is mainly building on its experience with the test platform ESI: Energy System Integration. ESI tests renewable energy alternatives in their complex interaction.

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Hydrogen CO2 Renewable Carbon 186