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Evidence from glacier ice: Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the anthropogenic lead emissions in South America

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Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Rolls-Royce and SOWITEC cooperate on power-to-X projects

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This green hydrogen can be used as fuel for fuel cells and hydrogen engines, to produce industrial feedstock and to produce sustainable e-fuels for marine, aviation, agriculture, mining and data center power. The plants will use renewable energy sources to generate electrical power that will be used to produce hydrogen with mtu electrolyzers.

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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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CIMC is a large, industrial conglomerate that has been a partner of Maersk for more than two decades. Its energy division—CIMC ENRIC—is a world-leading manufacturer of key equipment and services provider of engineering and system solutions for the clean energy, chemical and liquid food industries. European Energy (Denmark).

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Ballard and HDF Energy sign development agreement for multi-megawatt fuel cell systems

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HDF Energy’s Renewstable power plant is a multi-MW baseload system enabling large-scale storage of intermittent renewable wind or solar energy in the form of hydrogen through the process of electrolysis as well as electricity generation using that hydrogen feedstock together with a fuel cell system.

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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

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The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Report highlights include: Cape Wind’s troubles. Click to enlarge.

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India, US working on tech to process critical minerals – ET Auto

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Following the fourth MSP Principals’ Meeting in London in October, the first for India as a member nation, New Delhi has identified four blocks in Africa and South America that hold special interest for the country’s needs.

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GlobalData: Hurricane Isaac to have minimal impact on Gulf refining

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Refined product prices soared as refiners experienced major flooding and wind damage. However, this is a much smaller storm and far less damage to a more prepared industry is expected, according to Kerr. Roughly seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina took the same direction and devastated New Orleans and the surrounding area.