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EIA: California drought will decrease hydropower, increase natural gas use and CO2 emissions

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MAY 27, 2022

The extended drought in California could cut the state’s summer electricity generation from hydropower nearly in half compared with normal precipitation conditions, according to an analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Figure 2 data source: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly.

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EIA expects 7% increase in US energy-sector CO2 emissions as economic activity increases during 2021

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Increased economic activity and a changing fuel mix in the electric power sector in 2021 will lead to a significant increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). billion metric tons this year.

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Nauticol Energy & Enhance Energy plan to capture up to 1M tonnes of CO2 annually from blue methanol production and distribution

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MARCH 24, 2021

Nauticol Energy and Enhance Energy have entered into an agreement to work collaboratively for the capture and sequestration of up to one million tonnes of CO 2 each year from Nauticol’s planned $2-billion Blue Methanol facility to be built near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

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EIA: US energy-related CO2 fell by 2.8% in 2019, slightly below 2017 levels

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MAY 11, 2020

US energy-related CO 2 emissions declined by 2.8% in 2019 to 5,130 million metric tons (MMmt), according to data in the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. The changes in US energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 offset the increase in 2018. CO 2 emissions had increased by 2.9%

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2019 CO2 Energy 2017

California "green hydrogen" facility claims to displace more CO2 than electrolysis from renewable energy

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Hydrogen firm SG H2 Energy plans to build a hydrogen production facility that, the companies claim, will significantly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

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CO2 Hydrogen California Energy

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

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JULY 26, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3 million in funding for 10 high-performance computing projects that will advance cutting-edge manufacturing and clean energy technologies. Improvements in manufacturing processes that result in significant national energy savings and carbon emissions. All Selectees. PROJECT TITLE.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Conventionally, plant operators can capture CO 2 by using special solvents that douse flue gas before it’s emitted from plant chimneys.

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Low Cost Convert CO2 Conversion

EIA projects US energy-related CO2 emissions to remain near current level through 2050; increased natural gas consumption

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MARCH 22, 2019

Carbon dioxide emissions from S energy consumption will remain near current levels through 2050, according to projections in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019. USenergy-related carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel energy consumption. Energy-related CO 2 emissions generally follow energy consumption trends.

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New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Electrolysis offers an attractive route to upgrade greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to valuable fuels and feedstocks; however, productivity is often limited by gas diffusion through a liquid electrolyte to the surface of the catalyst. amperes per square centimeter at 45% cathodic energy efficiency. Resources.

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CO2 Production Polymer Water

RPI researchers to develop novel porous material for air capture of CO2

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

With the support of a grant from the Department of Energy, Miao Yu, the Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a novel porous material capable of capturing even very small concentrations of CO 2 in the air and collecting the gas for further use.

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CO2 Carbon Grant Solar

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. The pilot plant is located in Marl, in the northern Ruhr area.

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Conversion Energy CO2 Water

BASF partners with China BlueChemical and Wuhuan Engineering to develop new technology for use of CO2-rich marine gas

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JANUARY 13, 2022

BASF has signed a joint development agreement with China BlueChemical Limited Company, a leading natural gas producer, and the chemical engineering company Wuhuan Engineering Co., to promote low-carbon development and utilization of marine gas resources. Marine gas, unlike commercial natural gas, contains high concentrations of CO 2.

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8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

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MAY 26, 2023

8 Rivers Capital announced the development of the 8RH2 CO 2 Convective Reformer—a technology for the production of ultra-low carbon hydrogen from natural gas. The 8RH2 technology has been invented by Rodney Allam MBE, a chemical engineer from Bath in the UK, who also pioneered the Allam-Fetvedt-Cycle (AFC) cycle.

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Hydrogen Carbon Gas Production

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That is why the Ruhr region is playing a leading role in the energy turnaround. That is already five percent of the Ruhr region’s greenhouse gas emissions. In this way, thyssenkrupp is accelerating the start of low-CO2 steel production. In this region, we have everything that is needed for a successful green transformation.

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Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power

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

will supply European Energy A/S with up to 60,000 tonnes per year of liquefied biogenic CO 2 for a period of 10 years. Once this gas is processed, Anaergia produces pipeline quality renewable natural gas (RNG) and a clean stream of carbon dioxide that normally gets released to the atmosphere.

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Green Supplies Energy Denmark

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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JUNE 16, 2022

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

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MARCH 9, 2022

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 The recovery of energy demand in 2021 was compounded by adverse weather and energy market conditions—notably the spikes in natural gas prices—which led to more coal being burned despite renewable power generation registering its largest growth to date.

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CESifo: EVs not the best option for reduction in on-road CO2 in Germany given power mix

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APRIL 20, 2019

According to the study, natural gas combustion engines are an ideal technology for transitioning to vehicles powered by hydrogen or “green” methane in the long term. They report that even with today’s technology, total emissions from a combustion engine powered by natural gas are already almost one-third lower than those of a diesel engine.

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Germany CO2 Power Powered

Tesla Megapacks power on at Scotland battery energy storage site

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MARCH 19, 2024

A Tesla Megapack-based battery energy storage system (BESS) has gone live in Scotland, in partnership with TagEnergy and Harmony Energy. As detailed in a press release from TagEnergy on Tuesday, the Jamesfield Megapack project outside of Abernathy, Scotland is now fully operational, offering 49MW of power and 98MWh of energy storage.

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Energy Storage Energy Power Powered

Roskill: CO2 emissions from lithium production set to triple by 2025

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

This calculation includes all CO 2 emissions grouped under Scope 1 and 2 categories as set out by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol as well those associated with transporting material between production and refining sites. Using this, Roskill has been able to produce detailed energy and emissions intensity curves of the lithium supply chain.

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Emissions CO2 Production Power Grid

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

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. This carbon dioxide, which stays within the system and is not released as a greenhouse gas, can get much hotter than steam—1,290 degrees Fahrenheit or 700 Celsius. —Darryn Fleming.

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Grid Power Powered CO2

Licht Group reports high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions from CO2

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JULY 12, 2019

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) report a process for the high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) by electrolysis of CO 2 in molten carbonate. Now, the researchers instead achieve effective low energy CNO synthesis from CO 2 by excluding those nucleating agents from the molten carbonate growth medium. —Prof.

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Carbon Energy CO2 Gas

New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The team tapped a novel energy source from the nanoworld to trigger a common chemical reaction that eliminates carbon dioxide.

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Conversion CO2 Carbon Exhaust

EIA: energy-related CO2 emissions from natural gas surpass coal as fuel use patterns change

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Energy-associated CO 2 emissions from natural gas are expected to surpass those from coal for the first time since 1972, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook projects energy-related CO 2 emissions from natural gas to be 10% greater than those from coal in 2016.

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Coal Gas Emissions Energy

KIT spin-off producing synthetic natural gas from green hydrogen and CO2 from sewage sludge

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JULY 14, 2018

Chemical reactor company INERATEC , a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Spanish company GAS NATURAL FENOSA have built a plant in Spain that produces synthetic natural gas from CO 2 and renewable hydrogen. The process uses energy from renewable sources and stores it in the chemical energy carrier methane.

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Kits Gas Hydrogen Spain

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions down 1.7% in 2016; carbon intensity of economy down 3.1%; transportation emissions up

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

US energy-related CO 2 emissions decreased by 89 million metric tons (MMmt), from 5,259 MMmt in 2015 to 5,170 MMmt in 2016. over that period, other factors contributing to energy-related CO 2 emissions more than offset the growth in GDP, leading to a 1.7% decline in energy intensity of the economy (Btu/GDP). along with a 1.4%

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2016 CO2 Emissions Transportation

SINTEF, ECONNECT model LNG, ammonia and liquid CO2 flow rates in floating cryogenic pipes

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SINTEF Energy Research and ECONNECT Energy have developed a novel computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling tool to predict LNG, ammonia and liquid carbon dioxide flow rates in floating, flexible cryogenic pipes. —Stian Magnusson, ECONNECT Energy CIO.

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CO2 Norway Mariner Cleaner

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to 1.9%) in 2022 as the COVID recovery continues amidst turmoil in energy markets. Turmoil in energy markets. The turmoil in the global energy markets is affecting the different fossil fuels in different ways. CO 2 emissions from natural gas use have grown a sustained 2.2% Emissions from gas are projected to rise by 4.7%

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

This article proposes a model that accounts for the modes in which aqueous gas depletion evolves over time and affects the long-term CO 2 electroreduction and the corresponding pH evolution near the electrode’s surface. pH is then suggested as an accurate and indirect means to measure CO 2 concentration in a liquid electrolyte.

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MIT CO2 Carbon Conversion

EIA: CO2 emissions from US power sector have declined 28% since 2005

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Source: US EIA, US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions , 2017.

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2005 Emissions Power Powered

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The second, direct route is generally recognized as being more economical and environmentally acceptable as it involves fewer chemical process steps, and the overall energy consumption for the entire process is lower. there are few reports of the direct catalytic conversion of CO 2 to jet fuel range hydrocarbons. Fe 5 C 2 respectively.

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Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane.

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Store Gas Green Power

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

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MARCH 26, 2019

Energy demand worldwide grew by 2.3% Natural gas emerged as the fuel of choice, posting the biggest gains and accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption. Gas demand growth was especially strong in the United States and China. As a result, global energy-related CO 2 emissions rose by 1.7%

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2018 Global Emissions Energy

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The calculations of reaction energetics suggest that Cu and Fe in the binary system can work in synergy to significantly deform the linear configuration of CO 2 and reduce the high energy barrier by stabilizing the reaction intermediates, thus spontaneously favoring CO 2 activation and conversion for methane synthesis.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen

Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

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JUNE 13, 2022

An open-access paper on the study appears in the ACS journal energy & fuels. Direct fuel and air mixing is avoided by this measure of cyclic oxidation–reduction of the metal oxide particles in two separate reactors, which results in an oxygen-depleted air stream from the AR and a flue gas concentrated with CO 2 from the FR. 2c00819.

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CO2 Gas Clean Cleaning

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

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JUNE 25, 2013

Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.

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Gas-Electric Audi Gas Water

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

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Therefore, green steel must be produced from a combination of a significant amount of green virgin iron and scrap in a production process which uses electricity from renewable energy sources. The direct reduction reactors have been up and running for more than 50 years in places where natural gas can be procured cheaply.

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BMW Green CO2 Sweden

DHL, Shell and Grundfos Bio-LNG pilot for road freight delivers 85% CO2 savings over conventional diesel

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In June 2021, DHL Freight started piloting a Bio-LNG solution (Bio-Liquefied Natural Gas from sustainable biomass) with Shell on three haulier trucks to reduce CO 2 emissions in road freight transport for DHL’s customer Grundfos. In the first five months, the volume of Bio-LNG lifted has reduced 87 tons of CO 2 eq.

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CO2 Diesel Climate Carbon

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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JULY 15, 2022

Earlier post.). Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology.

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Alaska Renewable Fuel CO2

Snam and Saipem sign MoU to work together on green hydrogen development and CO2 capture

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

With this cooperation, we aim to strengthen our commitment and partnership network in the field of new energy transition technologies, especially green hydrogen and its use in existing infrastructure. To date, 70% of our order book in the engineering and construction (E&C) sector is not related to oil.

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Hydrogen Green CO2 Oil

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

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MARCH 1, 2013

Audi will introduce the compact A3 Sportback g-tron—which can be powered by the CO 2 -neutral Audi e-gas, synthetic methane generated from eco-electricity in the Audi e-gas project ( earlier post )—at the end of the year. The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany.

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Audi Gas CO2 Gas-Electric

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. The RNG product with very low carbon intensity could be used for carbon emission reductions in the transportation, industrial, commercial, and residential energy sectors. The Gasification-powered RNG Process.

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Waste Carbon Gas Renewable

AP Ventures makes follow-on investment in small-scale GTL company Greyrock Energy

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MAY 7, 2019

London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. a provider of small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology. Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels.

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EIA: California drought will decrease hydropower, increase natural gas use and CO2 emissions

EIA expects 7% increase in US energy-sector CO2 emissions as economic activity increases during 2021

Nauticol Energy & Enhance Energy plan to capture up to 1M tonnes of CO2 annually from blue methanol production and distribution

EIA: US energy-related CO2 fell by 2.8% in 2019, slightly below 2017 levels

California "green hydrogen" facility claims to displace more CO2 than electrolysis from renewable energy

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

EIA projects US energy-related CO2 emissions to remain near current level through 2050; increased natural gas consumption

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

RPI researchers to develop novel porous material for air capture of CO2

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

BASF partners with China BlueChemical and Wuhuan Engineering to develop new technology for use of CO2-rich marine gas

8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

CESifo: EVs not the best option for reduction in on-road CO2 in Germany given power mix

Tesla Megapacks power on at Scotland battery energy storage site

Roskill: CO2 emissions from lithium production set to triple by 2025

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

Licht Group reports high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions from CO2

New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

EIA: energy-related CO2 emissions from natural gas surpass coal as fuel use patterns change

KIT spin-off producing synthetic natural gas from green hydrogen and CO2 from sewage sludge

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions down 1.7% in 2016; carbon intensity of economy down 3.1%; transportation emissions up

SINTEF, ECONNECT model LNG, ammonia and liquid CO2 flow rates in floating cryogenic pipes

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

EIA: CO2 emissions from US power sector have declined 28% since 2005

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

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

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

DHL, Shell and Grundfos Bio-LNG pilot for road freight delivers 85% CO2 savings over conventional diesel

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

Snam and Saipem sign MoU to work together on green hydrogen development and CO2 capture

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

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

AP Ventures makes follow-on investment in small-scale GTL company Greyrock Energy

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