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Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

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Russia-based Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel)—the world’s largest nickel producer—is studying the potential for mining tailings to capture and store CO 2. Ore mining and concentration results in waste rock, or tailings—fine-grained rock (less than 0.4 In 2021, Nornickel extracted 41.2 mm) that looks like sand.

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

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million) STORE&GO research project. While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power.

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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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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. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. The CO 2 molecules react through natural mineralization processes with the basalt rock and are converted to carbonates over a period of several years, thus permanently storing the CO 2 underground.

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

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It’s been difficult to achieve artificial photosynthesis with a high degree of selectivity, so that you’re converting as much of the sunlight as possible into the fuel you want, rather than be left with a lot of waste. —first author Dr Qian Wang from Cambridge’s Department of Chemistry. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

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

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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. Storing hydrogen is a challenge too in that it requires high pressures, low temperatures, or other chemical process to keep it compact.

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

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The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle. After the CO 2 exits the turbine, it is cooled in a recuperator before entering a compressor. The recuperator improves the overall efficiency of the system.

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