Green Car Congress
AUGUST 8, 2017
The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The “Direct Air Capture” Unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) captures carbon dioxide from air.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A direct air capture unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) extracts carbon dioxide from air.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 18, 2023
When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2017
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.
Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2021
Full-scale engine tests have been recently carried out in Wärtsilä’s engine laboratory in Vaasa, Finland, to assess the optimum engine parameters for running on these fuels. Wärtsilä’s gas engines are highly flexible and are capable of rapidly ramping up or down in power. EU’s ShipFC project.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 2, 2010
The 9-partner project, coordinated from the University of Turku, Finland, is targeting the production of only non-toxic end-products that have been demonstrated to function in existing or minimally modified combustion engines. PCC 6803, a freshwater cyanobacterium. DirectFuel is an EU FP7 collaborative project.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 19, 2021
The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. cancel the launch. “The
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