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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

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The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says. The steel mill, says Ideol, will be one of the world’s first to replace metallurgical coal with renewable electricity and hydrogen.

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