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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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Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

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Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. Using this technique, they report orders of magnitude higher turnover frequencies for hydrocarbon formation compared to conventional catalysts.

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Fraunhofer researchers developing ammonia-based systems for mobile energy in infrastructure, transportation and industry

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM are developing ammonia-based systems for a mobile, decentralized energy supply in the infrastructure, transportation and industry sectors. Ammonia (NH 3 ) could become an alternative solution to allow the required hydrogen to be stored and transported with ease.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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What is the digital afterlife industry? T oday, a “digital afterlife industry” is already making it possible to create reconstructions of dead people based on the data they’ve left behind. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” Others may recoil.

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Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

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More than 95% of the CO 2 will be captured and stored safely and permanently under the seabed offshore Norway. Joint development of offshore wind farms that will enable production of renewable hydrogen as fuel for power and other industrial customers in the future. Export of hydrogen by pipeline from Norway to Germany.

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New stable Fe3O4/C composite material for conversion electrode in solid-state Li-ion batteries

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Researchers in Europe, with colleagues from Samsung R&D Institute in Japan, have developed a highly stable Fe 3 O 4 /C composite for use as a conversion electrode in all-solid-state Li-ion batteries. In addition, recently a new chemistry has surfaced, allowing to store more Li + by the so-called conversion mechanism.

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European HYFLEXPOWER project to demo first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine

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The implementation of this project, the first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site—a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper—in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. The project’s total budget is close to €15.2 million, of which €10.5

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