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Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

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Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

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JANUARY 5, 2023

The dompany is also working to develop a methodology to take stock of carbon units captured this way. Ore mining and concentration results in waste rock, or tailings—fine-grained rock (less than 0.4 As a waste, tailings are stored in designated storage facilities called tailing dams. In 2021, Nornickel extracted 41.2

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Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals? —Prof In.

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SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

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MARCH 7, 2023

Cement provides structural support; functions as a barrier that helps prevent corrosion of the steel casing; and blocks oil, gas, or water from traveling through the annulus (the space between the wellbore and the casing). This barrier also protects fresh water aquifers and helps prevent the inflow of undesirable hydrocarbons.

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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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APRIL 26, 2022

Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative.

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Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. Our process aims to rebalance the overabundance of carbon in our environment and instead reuse it for meaningful applications.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The facility will filter 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air and mineralize it underground. With direct air capture technology, carbon dioxide is extracted from the ambient air and air free of CO 2 is returned to the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is thus permanently removed from the atmosphere.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Graphic courtesy Sandia National Laboratories).

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H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The company has a gross embodied carbon emission intensity obligation per tonne of steel, included in its customer contracts. Steel, which is one of the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitters, is the company’s first business vertical. In addition, the company will electrify every process step of the entire production flow.

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Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Waste-to-biogas company Anaergia Inc. Biogenic carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide that is released during the decomposition of organic matter such as food waste. All Anaergia plants use organic waste material to produce biogas, which is composed of methane and carbon dioxide.

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Study finds that steel slag heaps could absorb significant amounts of CO2

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Slag is rich in calcium silicates that dissolve in water; when atmospheric CO 2 dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, it reacts with the dissolved silicates to form stable carbonate minerals such as calcite, which nearly permanently sequesters the carbon. —Pullin et al. are reported. —Pullin et al.

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BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ELYSIS ( earlier post ) is the first carbon-free smelting technology for aluminum as it enables the production of aluminum metal without direct carbon dioxide emissions during the smelting process, instead emitting pure oxygen. This underlines the tremendous potential of reducing CO 2 in the aluminum supply chain.

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Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device component with remarkable stability and longevity as it selectively converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels: ethylene and hydrogen. We knew it was unstable—but we were surprised to learn just how unstable it really is.

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Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. Biogenic carbon dioxide from the Sundsvall energy facility will be captured and combined with renewable hydrogen to generate green electrofuel, eMethanol.

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Novomer demonstrates large-scale production of polypropylene using waste CO2

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MAY 22, 2013

has completed the first successful large-scale production of a polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polymer using waste CO 2 as a key raw material. The Novomer process reduces the use of these fuels by replacing up to half of the mass of the petroleum-based product with CO2.

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Waste CO2 Polymer Production

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel. First, air is drawn into the collector with a fan.

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CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. million (US$2.0-million)

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TotalEnergies and Veolia partner to develop CO2-based microalgae cultivation to produce next-generation biofuels

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JULY 7, 2021

When mature, they can be transformed into next-generation biofuels with low carbon intensity. Veolia will bring its expertise in the water sector to optimize management of the microalgae’s aquatic environment and the development of algal biomass as an effective solution for CO 2 capture.

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Hyundai is going all in on hydrogen, and relying on food waste to make that happen

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: Hyundai Kia-owner Hyundai certainly isn’t in a big rush to go carbon neutral. But now it says it will rely heavily on hydrogen fuel cells generated from plastic, food, and organic waste to power a whole new generation of EVs, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. It has set its target as the far-away date of 2050.

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Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

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JUNE 27, 2018

The goal, set in 2010, aimed to reduce the company’s global carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing operations by 30% per vehicle produced by 2025. Ford Motor Company has met its goal to reduce manufacturing CO 2 emissions eight years ahead of schedule. Ford also remains focused on reducing vehicle emissions.

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RWE Power/BRAIN expanding work on waste gas CO2 microbial conversion project

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JANUARY 7, 2012

RWE Power intends to go beyond the current project focus as the utility company plans to examine other carbon-rich waste streams—e.g. by sewage water, the production of food or refinery processes.

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MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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Empa researchers investigating new process for production of synthetic methane

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JUNE 14, 2021

Methanization works by producing methane (CH 4 ) and water (H 2 O) by catalytic conversion from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and hydrogen (H 2 ). Water causes problems with conventional processes, however; to remove it, serial methanization stages are typically required—with condensation areas in between. Schröter K.,

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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LanzaTech produces 1,500 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from waste gases for Virgin Atlantic

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In a milestone for the low-carbon fuel project, LanzaTech has produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process for Virgin Atlantic. The catalyst first removes water from the ethanol (dehydration), leaving behind ethylene. HSBC joined the partnership in 2014. The process.

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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JUNE 25, 2013

Water and oxygen are the only by-products. The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

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New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO 2 that are generated by CTL. The feedstock will not be coal or gas, but waste and biomass.

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Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield.

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Audi steps up research into carbon-neutral synthetic fuels with new e-diesel pilot plant; power-to-liquids

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Audi e-diesel has the potential to make conventional combustion engines operate almost CO2-neutrally. The green power generated on site in the hydroelectric power station produces hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis. This hydrogen, together with carbon dioxide, is converted in a two-step power-to-liquid process.

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Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Cost of carbon abated for transport applications. via the gasification of biomass waste—into methane. Feedstocks can include more durable material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants. Carbon savings. Click to enlarge. Feedstocks.

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Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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Toyota to build first MW-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota Motor North America announced that it will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2

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$12M German project to develop technology for syngas production from CO2 and H2; new hydrogen production method

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JULY 2, 2013

BASF, the Linde Group and ThyssenKrupp plan to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive basis for utilizing carbon dioxide as a raw material on an industrial scale. In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon.

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Nissan FY 2014 global corporate activities reduce CO2 emissions by 22.6% compared to FY 2005

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JUNE 19, 2015

Nissan continues to work toward achieving its environmental targets set forth in the company's action plan, Nissan Green Program 2016 (NGP2016), through a number of innovative sustainability initiatives in following key areas: Minimizing corporate carbon footprint. Electric vehicle penetration.

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Solar2fuel Project in Germany Pursuing Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol for Engines or Fuel Cells

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APRIL 8, 2010

In this project, the carbon in carbon dioxide is converted into climate neutral fuels with the aid of sunlight. Under these conditions, sunlight can be absorbed in the optimal range with the aid of organic dyes and supply energy for the conversion of carbon dioxide. million) over two years.

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How Lindstrom is making EV cell manufacturing safer via its workwear | Autocar Professional

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MARCH 28, 2024

To mitigate problems such as these for the electric vehicle industry, Finland-based Lindstrom has begun offering specialised uniforms that come with carbon filaments in the fabrics. The carbon filaments help distribute static charges across the fabric grid, preventing the charges from passing through.

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Co-Electrolysis of CO2 and H2O for the Production of Liquid Fuels

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JULY 23, 2010

In May, the Lenfest Center and Risø DTU hosted a one-day conference—“Sustainable Fuels from CO 2 , H 2 O, and Carbon-Free Energy”—addressing technologies that can be used to recycle CO 2 into carbon-neutral liquid hydrocarbon fuels using renewable or nuclear energy. The co-electrolysis process was featured in several of the talks.

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CNRS researchers exploring two-step thermochemical process to split CO2 for upgrading to synthetic fuels

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Their approach consists of splitting carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide and oxygen in two distinct steps. Tags: Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels. In a paper published online in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , they describe results from a series of proof-of-concept experiments.

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Toyota, Kenworth, POLA and CARB unveil next-gen heavy-duty fuel-cell truck; ZANZEFF

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APRIL 23, 2019

Since operations began in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” and “Beta” Proof of Concept Class 8 trucks have logged more than 14,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach while emitting nothing but water vapor. the first of which debuted today?is

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Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

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MARCH 1, 2013

The inner layer consists of gas-impermeable polyamide polymer, while a second layer of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) gives the tank its extremely high strength; a third layer of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) provides rugged protection against damage from the outside. lb) less than its conventional counterpart.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

Study finds that steel slag heaps could absorb significant amounts of CO2

BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

Novomer demonstrates large-scale production of polypropylene using waste CO2

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

TotalEnergies and Veolia partner to develop CO2-based microalgae cultivation to produce next-generation biofuels

Hyundai is going all in on hydrogen, and relying on food waste to make that happen

Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

RWE Power/BRAIN expanding work on waste gas CO2 microbial conversion project

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

Empa researchers investigating new process for production of synthetic methane

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

LanzaTech produces 1,500 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from waste gases for Virgin Atlantic

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

Audi steps up research into carbon-neutral synthetic fuels with new e-diesel pilot plant; power-to-liquids

Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

Toyota to build first MW-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station

$12M German project to develop technology for syngas production from CO2 and H2; new hydrogen production method

Nissan FY 2014 global corporate activities reduce CO2 emissions by 22.6% compared to FY 2005

Solar2fuel Project in Germany Pursuing Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol for Engines or Fuel Cells

How Lindstrom is making EV cell manufacturing safer via its workwear | Autocar Professional

Co-Electrolysis of CO2 and H2O for the Production of Liquid Fuels

CNRS researchers exploring two-step thermochemical process to split CO2 for upgrading to synthetic fuels

Toyota, Kenworth, POLA and CARB unveil next-gen heavy-duty fuel-cell truck; ZANZEFF

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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