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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry.

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UK MPs greenlight shale gas in new report

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It is more likely that in countries such as Poland—with a larger reliance on gas imports and greater potential shale gas resources—the impacts of shale gas production will be significant. Shale gas could encourage more countries to switch from coal to gas, which in some cases could halve power station emissions.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. produced fuels was further reduced by an accelerated shift away from coal, which in 2020 was down to 11 percent of primary supply, from 18 percent in 2000. Certification of the €9.5

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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It’s a really exciting time for the nuclear industry,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. , Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. But, experts say, the 2020s could help set the foundations for a nuclear blossoming in decades to come.

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