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Statoil to build the world’s first floating wind farm: Hywind Scotland

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Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billion (US$238 million), realizing a 60-70% cost reduction per MW from the Hywind demo project in Norway.

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Hystar raises $5.9M+ to develop and commercialize its high-efficiency thin-membrane PEM electrolysis tech

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AP Ventures , a significant investor in breakthrough hydrogen technologies, led the fundraise, alongside SINTEF Ventures, the investment fund of the SINTEF research institute, and Firda, a pioneering early-stage investor in Norway. In contrast to state?of?the?art —Barnett and Thomassen, 2019. Credit: Hystar.

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St1 Etanolix food-waste-to-ethanol plant integrated into oil refinery in Gothenburg

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In the hydrolysis stage, the feedstock is diluted with warm water in order to convert it into slurry. It delivers fuels to major Nordic service station chains—ABC, St1 and Shell—with a total of 1,500 service stations in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Our scalable Etanolix concept is a finished export product.

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US and Japan successfully complete Arctic field trial of gas hydrate production technology using CO2-methane exchange within structure

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The production technology was developed through laboratory collaboration between the University of Bergen, Norway, and ConocoPhillips. The ongoing, proof-of-concept test commenced on 15 February 2012, and concluded on 10 April. As part of this exchange demonstration, the depressurization phase of the test extended for 30 days.

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H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

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The concept is based on proven floating production, storage and off-take technologies combined with an e-control system capable of balancing renewable electricity feedstock through a fully integrated PEM and Haber-Bosch system. H2Carrier will build, own and operate a fleet of P2XFloaters.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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195, Bright will be building cars that “do more with less&# , a philosophy MacCready was famous for (and the title of a wonderful biography on him). Bright Automotive, which spun out of the Rocky Mountain Institute in January, is building a plug-in hybrid vehicle that will get 100 miles a gallon (see Green Lightpost).

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

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Automakers are fiercely lobbying governments to water down already-compromised emissions rules, but doing so will only lead to their doom as market entrants that are serious about EVs will continue ramping them anyway. The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future.

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