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

Green Car Congress

Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility. Waste is a global problem, clogging waterways, contaminating oceans, packing landfills and polluting skies.

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BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). New-build onshore wind and solar projects are now around 40% lower than BNEF’s global benchmarks for new coal- and gas-fired power.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

EV Info

We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. While all eyes are on Ukraine and Russia, Europe’s energy woes are largely self-made, not due to outside forces. Let’s look at the bigger picture: – What has Europe done? In the U.K.,

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Instead of building an airport, one analogy goes, crafting an SMR is like building an aircraft. So far, Rosatom has avoided Western sanctions over Russian aggression in Ukraine.

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The Hague is the first world city to ban fossil fuel ads

Baua Electric

It builds on a previous motion to ban fossil ads from bus shelters, which had gained broad support from the representatives of the green party, labor party, socialist party, centrist minority-rights party DENK, progressive pro-Europe party Democrats 66, and the center-right Christian Union. Get started here. –

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.