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Saudi Arabia Uses Your Gas Dollars To Fund.Solar Energy

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power grid, but it's a very slow process. Renewable energy, especially solar, is making inroads into the U.S. And especially in the wake of the Solyndra collapse, it's one fraught with political wrangling.

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Air Products announces multi-billion dollar net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton, Alberta

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The new facility will capture more than 95% of CO 2 produced by generating hydrogen from the feedstock natural gas and store it safely back underground (i.e., Air Products contracted the Pembina Institute to conduct an independent assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions of the proposed Alberta Blue Hydrogen Hub project.

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

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SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Remembering IEEE Director Emeritus Theodore W. Hissey

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Those contacts helped Hissey and L&N take on several international projects such as setting up telemetry systems for Aramco , a national oil and natural gas company in Saudi Arabia. He spent time in Brazil helping engineers there expand and stabilize the power grid. Later he was a principal engineer at Macro Corp.,

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BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

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Wind and solar have been exhibiting very rapid growth, even as subsidies and support have in general become less generous, and that has been driven mainly by dramatic improvements to their cost-competitiveness, as well as by the removal of barriers such as grid bottlenecks. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

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Smith School lifecycle study highlights importance for algae-derived biodiesel of co-product utilization and optimizing and decarbonizing every step of the supply chain

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However, biodiesel from advanced biomass has an inherent environmental advantage of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction that can be realized once every step of the production chain is fully optimized and decarbonized, the researchers said. By reducing the consumption of grid heat and electricity from 1.48 MJ/MJ and 0.9

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CoorsTek proton ceramic membranes produce hydrogen from ammonia, natural gas or biogas

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A development team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, in collaboration with international research partners, have successfully used ceramic membrane technology to develop a scalable hydrogen generator that makes hydrogen from electricity and fuels including natural gas, biogas and ammonia with near zero energy loss.

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