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Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project

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Australia-based natural gas company Santos has successfully injected approximately 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide deep underground into depleted gas reservoirs as part of the final field trial for the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project. million tonne per year project ready for Final Investment Decision by the end of the year.

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TransAlta to use Tesla stationary batteries in Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project

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TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. The project should be running in late-2016.

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HIF Global, Porsche and Volkswagen Group unveil new direct air capture unit to be installed at eFuels plant in Chile in 2024

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Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. Our research has found that scalable and commercially competitive direct-air-capture technology is possible. This stores the CO 2 long-term. Earlier post.)

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Sandy solution for renewable energy storage; Thermal Energy Storage System

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Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. The TESS device stores electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon. —Jonathan Whalley. —Jonathan Whalley.

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UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

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million, taking their projects through to the demonstration phase, and towards the successful commercialization of their technologies. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications.

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Kawasaki Heavy and Shell to partner on technologies for transporting liquefied hydrogen by sea

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Kawasaki aims to complete development design in 2016, then subsequently move forward with commercialization. According to the report, the partners will produce hydrogen from low-quality brown coal abundant in Australia at low cost and then ship liquefied hydrogen. The company expects demand growth outside of Japan.

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Artificial Muscles Woven Into Smart Textiles Could Make Clothing Hyperfunctional

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Engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, have developed a new class of fluid-driven smart textiles that can “shape-shift” into 3D structures. The filament structure of the muscles allows them to be stored in spools and cut to meet specific length requirements.

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