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KIT team produces synthetic natural gas from waste wood; used in natural gas vehicles

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Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have successfully produced renewable methane from a biomass-based synthesis gas mixture in their pilot plant for methanation using a new honeycomb catalyst. —Felix Ortloff, Head of the Process Engineering group of the DVGW Research Centre at KIT’s Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI).

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SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

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Project partners include INERATEC, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). The “Direct Air Capture” Unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) captures carbon dioxide from air.

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Compact pilot plant for solar to liquid fuels production

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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.

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Indiana Think Electric-Car Plant Stilled, Owners Quiet On Future

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At the time, several dozen workers were turning out a trickle of Think City electric vehicles assembled from kits shipped in from Finland--with big plans for ramping up production. A year ago, we visited the Think electric-car plant in Elkhart, Indiana. That never happened.

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New Management, Structure, Cash For Electric-Car Maker Think?

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out of kits shipped from the manufacturing facilitiy in Finland that built the cars for other. Back in January, we toured the Think electric-car assembly facility in Elkhart, Indiana, "the RV capital of the world."

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New Management, Structure, Cash For Electric-Car Maker Think?

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out of kits shipped from the manufacturing facilitiy in Finland that built the cars for other. Back in January, we toured the Think electric-car assembly facility in Elkhart, Indiana, "the RV capital of the world."

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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The European countries where heat pumps are most used are some of the coldest, including Norway, Sweden, and Finland, where more than 40 percent of homes use heat pumps. But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.”

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