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Uhde Gasification Selected for Commercial Biomass-to-Methanol Plant in Sweden

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VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Investment for the plant will be about SEK 3 billion (US$416 million).

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. European gas supplied three-fifths of the continent’s demand.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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—Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. This company has developed a 77 MWe SMR; they envision clumping four, six, even twelve reactors together into larger power plants. The Czech state-owned energy company set aside land in the country’s South Bohemian Region for an SMR project.

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