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Emerson and BayoTech partner to scale production and distribution of low-cost, modular SMRs for hydrogen production

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Global industrial software and technology leader Emerson announced a multi-year strategic framework agreement with BayoTech, a developer of modular steam methane reformers (SMRs) and other hydrogen solutions, to accelerate the delivery of hydrogen around the world.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Production Albuquerque

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Heliogen’s AI-enabled concentrated solar energy system is designed to create carbon-free steam, electricity, and heat from abundant and renewable sunlight. When combined with Bloom’s proprietary solid oxide, high-temperature electrolyzer, hydrogen can be produced 45% more efficiently than low-temperature PEM and alkaline electrolyzers.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Solar Green

FPX Nickel establishes subsidiary to pursue large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage

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MARCH 31, 2022

to pursue opportunities in large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS). Importantly, FPX will have the right to use any intellectual property developed by CO 2 Lock, further raising the potential for development of a low- or zero-carbon nickel mining operation at Decar. FPX Nickel Corp.,

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LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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Carbon Fiber Low Cost Carbon Manufacturer

Occidental Petroleum and Chevron invest in direct air carbon capture and synthetic fuels company Carbon Engineering

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) CE) has received equity investment from two global energy companies: Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation; and Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital arm of Chevron Corporation. since 2015.

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Chevron Carbon Fuel Companies

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

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JUNE 7, 2022

The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and Bloom Energy will jointly develop an optimized and large-scale high-temperature integrated electrolysis solution for the nuclear industry. —Rick Beuttel, vice president, hydrogen business, Bloom Energy.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Energy

Fulcrum BioEnergy successfully produces first low-carbon synthetic crude oil from landfill waste at its Sierra BioFuels Plant

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

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Sierra Waste Carbon Oil

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

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JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications. The biochar is rich in carbon and can be used as a fertilizer. Cambridge Carbon Capture Ltd.,

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Waste

8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

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MAY 26, 2023

8 Rivers Capital announced the development of the 8RH2 CO 2 Convective Reformer—a technology for the production of ultra-low carbon hydrogen from natural gas. It uses the oxy-combustion of carbon fuels and a high-pressure supercritical CO 2 working fluid in a highly recuperated cycle that captures all emissions by design.

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Hydrogen Carbon Gas Production

LeMond Carbon obtains independent verification of its carbon fiber rapid oxidation technology

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

LeMond Carbon announced the results of an independent technical audit conducted by Bureau Veritas (BV) of its carbon fiber manufacturing process. The audit was conducted on a pilot line at Deakin University’s Carbon Nexus facility in Geelong, Australia. From Bureau Veritas audit of LeMond’s carbon fiber manufacturing process.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Tennessee Universal

HIF Global, Porsche and Volkswagen Group unveil new direct air capture unit to be installed at eFuels plant in Chile in 2024

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) Why not combine the two? We’re working on that.

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Chile Porsche Global Installation

Carbon Clean and Liquid Wind partner on eMethanol production for marine fuel

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APRIL 29, 2021

Carbon Clean, a developer of low-cost carbon capture technology, has entered into an agreement with power-to-fuels developer Liquid Wind. Carbon Clean’s technology will capture biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from a local industrial site. The partnership has ambitions for future sites.

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Wind Mariner Carbon Clean

Heliogen launches, achieves > 1,000 ?C from concentrated sunlight for industrial processes

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that temperature, Heliogen can replace the use of fossil fuels in critical industrial processes, including the production of cement, steel, and petrochemicals, dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from these activities. But electricity accounts for less than a quarter of global energy demand.

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Industrial Industry Los Angeles Solar

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

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APRIL 7, 2022

Ultimately, SpinLaunch’s Orbital Accelerator will accelerate a launch vehicle containing a satellite up to 5,000 miles per hour using a rotating carbon-fiber-arm within a 300-ft diameter steel vacuum chamber. After full review, NASA and SpinLaunch will publish all non-proprietary launch environment information from the test flight.

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Low Cost Carbon Fiber New Mexico Google

Kawasaki, Subaru, Toyota, Mazda, and Yamaha partner on producing, transporting, and using carbon-neutral fuels, including hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., jointly announced that, toward the achievement of carbon neutrality, they will take on the challenge of expanding fuel options through the use of internal combustion engines at the (three-hour) Super Taikyu Race in Okayama on 13-14 November. Participating in races using carbon-neutral fuels.

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Mazda Hydrogen Toyota Transportation

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Industrial

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

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MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Abatement cost with hydrogen at $1/kg (7.4/MMBtu).

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

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JUNE 3, 2023

The storage battery market is expected to continue growing in light of the spread of renewable energy and electrified vehicles, as well as the global trend toward carbon neutrality.

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Toyota Batteries Battery Energy Storage

Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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MAY 1, 2023

This one-step nitrogen-fixation strategy to produce ammonia is eco-friendly and low cost, which converts widely available starting materials into a value-added product. PNAS For more than a century, the world has relied on the Haber-Bosch process to yield ammonia in bulk; however, the industrial procedure is energy intensive.

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Water F-150 Low Cost Gas-Electric

Ekona Power closes CAD 79M Series A to advance pulsed methane pyrolysis technology for clean hydrogen production

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

a Vancouver-based company that is developing a novel methane pyrolysis technology platform which produces clean and low-cost hydrogen, closed a CAD $79-million (US$62-million) Series A round. The current industry standard for hydrogen production—steam methane reforming—produces a significant amount of CO 2 emissions.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Production

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Stronger, more stress resistant & cheaper by weight than steel, C2CNT carbon nanotubes avoids > 160 ton CO 2 per ton steel replaced. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Climate Change CO2 Climate

bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

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MARCH 19, 2021

The project would capture and send for storage up to two million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO?) Industries in Teesside account for more than 5% of the UK’s industrial emissions and the region is home to five of the country’s top 25 emitters. —Dev Sanyal, bp’s executive vice president of gas and low carbon energy.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Clean Cleaning

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

FREYR Battery joins Fair Cobalt Alliance

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has become a member of the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) to underscore FREYR’s commitment to developing a sustainable global battery industry. —Tom Einar Jensen, the CEO of FREYR.

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Batteries Battery Congo Low Cost

JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

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MAY 30, 2021

Ammonia enables efficient, low-cost transport and storage of hydrogen. As a fuel that does not emit carbon dioxide when burned, ammonia is expected to offer advantages in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to this role as an energy carrier, it can also be used directly as a fuel in thermal power generation.

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Coal Commercial Power Powered

Global Bioenergies reports first production of green isobutene at demo plant

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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Global Green Production Convert

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., The UK has awarded £7.5

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Wind Hydrogen Renewable Low Cost

Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

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MARCH 3, 2022

Through the nearby 300 MW solar park of Kassø, developed by European Energy, the project will have access to the low-cost renewable electricity needed to produce cost-effective e-Fuel. The global shipping consumes around 3,050 terawatt hours (TWh) of the worldwide final energy consumption.

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Energy Denmark Gas-Electric Fuel

Rolls-Royce establishes Small Modular Reactors business

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Rolls-Royce announced that following a successful equity raise, it has established the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business to bring forward and deliver at scale the next generation of low-cost, low-carbon nuclear power technology. Earlier post.).

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Grid Clean Cleaning Power

Rio Tinto to acquire Rincon Mining lithium project for $825M

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Rio Tinto said the acquisition demonstrates its commitment to build its battery materials business and strengthen its portfolio for the global energy transition. The project is a long-life, scaleable resource capable of producing battery-grade lithium carbonate.

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Argentina South America Carbon Low Cost

Stanford team reports new low-cost, non-precious metal catalyst for water splitting with performance close to platinum

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions, have developed a nickel-based electrocatalyst for low-cost water-splitting for hydrogen production with performance close to that of much more expensive commercial platinum electrocatalysts. and Stephen J. Department of Energy.

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Taiwan

Lake Resources and Ford Motor Company sign non-binding MoU to negotiate for lithium offtake from the Kachi Project

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APRIL 17, 2022

—Lisa Drake, Ford’s vice president, EV Industrialization. This MoU with Ford supports Lake’s strategy to be a key independent supplier into global lithium supply chains and ensure the security of supply to customers. —Steve Promnitz, Lake’s Managing Director.

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Ford Companies Motor Motors

MHI invests in Electric Hydrogen to accelerate efforts to produce clean hydrogen at scale

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JUNE 29, 2022

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI) has invested in Electric Hydrogen (EH2), a clean hydrogen startup headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, to support its efforts in developing cost-competitive, fossil-free hydrogen. The investment has been executed through Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Mitsubishi

Australian-German business coalition releases roadmap for large-scale green hydrogen import to Germany

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JUNE 27, 2022

A group of leading German companies along with Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has released a green hydrogen roadmap, outlining a set of recommendations for government and industry, to meet the ambitious target of importing large amounts of green hydrogen from Australia to Germany. Source: RMI analysis).

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Germany Hydrogen Green Russia

Qantas and bp form strategic partnership to advance net zero emissions

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Through the collaboration, the companies will work together on opportunities to reduce carbon emissions in the aviation sector and contribute to the development of a sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia. bp has been operating in Australia for more than 100 years.

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Emissions Australia Low Cost Carbon

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

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JULY 26, 2022

Through the High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, selected teams will help manufacturers shrink their carbon footprint, streamline their processes, and increase innovation—from optimizing the performance of equipment used in chemical manufacturing to improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles. All Selectees.

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Energy CO2 Hydrogen Carbon

Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Calysta says that in contrast to current algae- and sugar-based methods, a methane-based biofuel platform is expected to produce fuel at less than half the cost of other biological methods, allowing direct competition with petroleum-based fuels. Carbon feedstock. Comparison of biofuel platform efficiency (source: Calysta Energy).

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Low Cost Convert Engine Energy

California Energy Commission awards $7.8M to two lithium recovery projects; “Lithium Valley”

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MAY 14, 2020

The major challenges for lithium production in this region relate to the harsh chemistry of the brine and the difficultly of developing a low-cost and highly selective process for lithium recovery. The new lithium recovery projects awarded funding are designed to help reduce costs and environmental impact.

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California Energy Clean Cleaning

Rio Tinto partners with Government of Canada to decarbonize RTFT operations and boost critical minerals processing

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Government of Canada is investing up to C$222 million (US$162 million) over the next eight years to support these initiatives through its Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), which supports large-scale, transformative, and collaborative projects that will help position Canada to prosper in the global knowledge-based economy.

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Canada Gas-Electric North America Emissions

H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

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AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier is the designer and owner of the proprietary floating energy production and storage system P2XFloater—the first industrial-scale floating green hydrogen and ammonia facility of its kind in the world. The demand for green ammonia internationally is rapidly increasing due to the industrial decarbonization.

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Hydrogen Norway Wind Renewable

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

AQDS undergoes extremely rapid and reversible two-electron two-proton reduction on a glassy carbon electrode in sulfuric acid. First, scalability: AQDS contains only the Earth-abundant atoms carbon, sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be inexpensively manufactured on large scales. I’m excited that we have a good shot at it.

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Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Australia-based natural gas company Santos has successfully injected approximately 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide deep underground into depleted gas reservoirs as part of the final field trial for the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project. —Kevin Gallagher. —Kevin Gallagher.

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CO2 Australia Carbon Store

Hydrogen Optimized to supply more than 40 MW of large-scale hydrogen production capacity

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JANUARY 11, 2022

has entered into a confidential Letter of Intent (LOI) with a large industrial company to provide more than 40 MW of RuggedCell water electrolyzer capacity for hydrogen production. Hydrogen produced with low to zero carbon dioxide emissions is widely recognized as key to achieving “net zero” emissions by 2050.

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Hydrogen Supplies Production Water

Air Products to invest about $500M to build green hydrogen production facility in New York; 94MW hydropower already approved

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

In support of this Air Products’ project, in July 2022, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) board approved 94 MW of low-cost St. Air Products has announced plans to convert its global fleet of approximately 2,000 trucks to hydrogen fuel cell zero-emission vehicles.

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New York Hydrogen Production Green

Emerson and BayoTech partner to scale production and distribution of low-cost, modular SMRs for hydrogen production

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

FPX Nickel establishes subsidiary to pursue large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage

LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

Occidental Petroleum and Chevron invest in direct air carbon capture and synthetic fuels company Carbon Engineering

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

Fulcrum BioEnergy successfully produces first low-carbon synthetic crude oil from landfill waste at its Sierra BioFuels Plant

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

LeMond Carbon obtains independent verification of its carbon fiber rapid oxidation technology

HIF Global, Porsche and Volkswagen Group unveil new direct air capture unit to be installed at eFuels plant in Chile in 2024

Carbon Clean and Liquid Wind partner on eMethanol production for marine fuel

Heliogen launches, achieves > 1,000 ?C from concentrated sunlight for industrial processes

NASA to fly payload with SpinLaunch’s mass accelerator to test low-cost, high-cadence kinetic launch system

Kawasaki, Subaru, Toyota, Mazda, and Yamaha partner on producing, transporting, and using carbon-neutral fuels, including hydrogen

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

Ekona Power closes CAD 79M Series A to advance pulsed methane pyrolysis technology for clean hydrogen production

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

FREYR Battery joins Fair Cobalt Alliance

JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

Global Bioenergies reports first production of green isobutene at demo plant

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

Rolls-Royce establishes Small Modular Reactors business

Rio Tinto to acquire Rincon Mining lithium project for $825M

Stanford team reports new low-cost, non-precious metal catalyst for water splitting with performance close to platinum

Lake Resources and Ford Motor Company sign non-binding MoU to negotiate for lithium offtake from the Kachi Project

MHI invests in Electric Hydrogen to accelerate efforts to produce clean hydrogen at scale

Australian-German business coalition releases roadmap for large-scale green hydrogen import to Germany

Qantas and bp form strategic partnership to advance net zero emissions

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

California Energy Commission awards $7.8M to two lithium recovery projects; “Lithium Valley”

Rio Tinto partners with Government of Canada to decarbonize RTFT operations and boost critical minerals processing

H2Carrier receives AiP from DNV for P2XFloater floating hydrogen and ammonia facility

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project

Hydrogen Optimized to supply more than 40 MW of large-scale hydrogen production capacity

Air Products to invest about $500M to build green hydrogen production facility in New York; 94MW hydropower already approved

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