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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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

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Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. The decision also fits with our overall strategy. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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FREYR and 24M sign licensing and services agreement for mass production of Li-ion battery cells; Glencore for raw materials

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24M’s SemiSolid platform technology provides opportunities for the production of cost-optimized, application-specific designs in both grid and electric mobility markets.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid.

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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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When the energy required to build the e-gas facility and wind power generators is included in a comprehensive analysis, CO 2 emissions under e-Gas operation are still less than 30 grams per km (48.28 The power-to-gas process links the electricity grid and gas network bi-directionally for the first time.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. Most CO2 is a by-product of making fertilisers.

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