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Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 4, 2022

This work will see Twelve converting CO 2 to CO, which will in turn be converted by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbe to isopropyl alcohol (IPA). This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

Water

Water CO2 Solar Convert

Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Water

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

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APRIL 12, 2022

in Iceland is operated with 100% green electricity. The process of methanol synthesis requires the input of pure carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water electrolysis, with the only by-product being oxygen and water. The silicon metal plant of PCC BakkiSilicon hf. The energy transition is urgent, especially in the fleet.

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Iceland Emissions Convert CO2

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. 2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.” The authors show that this limitation can be overcome. Resources. Science Vol.

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CO2 Production Polymer Water

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. Water from the Hellisheiði power plant then flows through the facility and transports the carbon dioxide roughly 2,000 meters below the surface of the Earth.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon

Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. Process design for technical synthesis of butanol and hexanol from CO 2 , H 2 0 and electricity. describing the approach.

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Water Renewable CO2 Convert

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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Grid Powered Power CO2

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. Click to enlarge.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel

Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device component with remarkable stability and longevity as it selectively converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels: ethylene and hydrogen. We knew it was unstable—but we were surprised to learn just how unstable it really is.

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Hydrogen CO2 Li-ion Solar

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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APRIL 26, 2022

OCOchem transforms recycled CO 2 , water and zero-carbon electricity to produce formic acid, a globally traded commodity chemical and emerging electro-fuel. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Conversion Grant Waste CO2

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

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JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Convert CO2 Hydrogen Gas-Electric

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. The pilot plant is located in Marl, in the northern Ruhr area.

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Conversion Energy CO2 Water

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems.

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MIT CO2 Carbon Conversion

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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MIT Convert CO2 Carbon

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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Solar Conversion Fuel CO2

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels.

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Commercial Energy CO2 Tucson

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

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Gas-Electric Gas Audi Water

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct.

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Alaska Renewable Fuel CO2

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. That liquid is stored in a tank and can then be converted back into conventional fuel at the service stations using renewable electricity. In their study, the scientists used the example of a delivery truck.

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Emissions CO2 Exhaust Carbon

Researchers tailor catalyst microenvironments to enhance CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

In previous studies, the researchers had established the precise conditions that gave the best electrical and chemical environment for creating commercially interesting carbon-rich products. But those conditions are contrary to those that naturally occur in a typical fuel cell, which uses a water-based conductive material.

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CO2 Production Carbon Environment

EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

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JUNE 7, 2017

The system uses the same catalyst for the cathode that reduces CO 2 to CO and for the anode that oxidizes water to oxygen through the oxygen evolution reaction. The system was able to selectively convert CO2 to CO with an efficiency of 13.4% The gases are separated with a bipolar membrane. using solar energy.

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Low Cost CO2 Solar Conversion

SRI developing process for co-gasification of methane and coal to produce liquid transportation fuels; negligible water consumption, no CO2

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. The syngas is converted into methanol, which is then processed to make transportation fuels—in the case of the DARPA challenge, JP-8 (military distillate fuel).

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Coal Water Transportation Fuel

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Over the past few months, we have converted it to DME together with our partner FPT. In addition, the valves and valve seat inserts were converted to materials suitable for DME. An electrically driven compressor for precise exhaust gas recirculation is also used. Dimethyl ether (DME) can be produced from hydrogen and CO2.

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Engine Fuel Exhaust Gas-Electric

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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MAY 16, 2018

The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. As part of the electric offensive, Mercedes-Benz Cars counts on local emission-free vehicles.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

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MARCH 3, 2016

STEP is an efficient solar chemical process, based on a synergy of solar thermal and endothermic electrolyses, designed to convert greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful carbon commodity. This presents a sustainable route to convert carbon dioxide into materials relevant to both grid-scale and portable storage systems.

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Li-ion Carbon Convert Sodium

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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APRIL 11, 2019

Hydrogen generation: Hydrogen can be generated by water electrolysis using MW-scale electrolyzer technology, utilizing renewable electricity to produce pressurized high purity H 2 and O 2 gases. In many ethanol production and biogas processes. CO 2 is readily available. Compression: Reaction gas is prepared by mixing H 2 and CO 2.

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Grant CO2 Iceland Waste

Texas A&M team developing photocatalyst to turn CO2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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MARCH 6, 2017

Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. One of the challenges with this technology is that the current conversion efficiency of converting CO 2 and water into renewable solar fuels remains low, less than a few percent.

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Renewable Texas Fuel CO2

Empa researchers investigating new process for production of synthetic methane

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JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss research intsitute Empa’s future mobility demonstrator, “move”, is investigating three paths for CO 2 reduction in road traffic—electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels—against the background of a rapidly changing energy system. Construction of the plant is planned for mid-2021. Schröter K.,

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Production Water Hydrogen Waste

Nissan establishes Zero Emission Fund; CO2 offset credits for LEAF owners in Japan

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JUNE 11, 2012

launched the Nissan Zero Emission Fund, a new fund for individual Nissan electric vehicle (EV) owners in Japan which converts the amount of CO 2 emissions that are offset by driving the 100% electric Nissan LEAF to generate credits. Click to enlarge. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Japan Nissan CO2 Emissions

Berkeley Lab copper catalyst yields high-efficiency CO2-to-fuels conversion

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Conversion CO2 Fuel Carbon

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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JUNE 9, 2017

The demo plant incorporates the entire process chain, and comprises four separate units: a solar power plant; equipment for separating carbon dioxide and water from the air; a section that uses electrolysis to produce hydrogen; and synthesis equipment for producing a crude-oil substitute from carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

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Renewable Fuel CO2 Hydrogen

Berkeley Lab solar-to-fuel system for CO2 to ethanol and ethylene; light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The initial focus of JCAP research was tackling the efficient splitting of water in the photosynthesis process.

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Solar Light Fuel CO2

Stanford researchers develop copper-based catalyst that produces ethanol from CO at room temperature; potential for closed-loop CO2-to-fuel process

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APRIL 11, 2014

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Conversion

New inexpensive catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO could help with storage of renewable energy

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JUNE 23, 2013

carbon monoxide evolving catalyst (Bi-CMEC) that can be used in conjunction with ionic liquids to convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) using electricity. CO can then be reacted with H 2 O via the water?gas Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed an inexpensive bismuth?carbon —DiMeglio and Joel Rosenthal.

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Conversion Renewable CO2 Energy

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … Xin Tu, from the University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas

Copper foam catalyst yields different product slate from CO2 than smooth electrodes; importance of catalyst architecture

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AUGUST 13, 2014

The research, reported in the journal ACS Catalysis , suggests that copper foams could provide a new way of converting excess CO 2 into useful industrial chemicals. The foams are made by depositing copper on a surface in the presence of hydrogen and a strong electric current.

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CO2 Production Conversion Hydrogen

Researchers combining CO2 storage and geothermal energy production

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AUGUST 8, 2011

The CO 2 will then be pulled to the surface and fed into a turbine that converts heat into electricity. Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. As this happens, more water must be added, perhaps from municipal sources that have little to spare.

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Energy CO2 Production Water

Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

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JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. This will significantly reduce overall CO 2 emissions.

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Water CO2 Green Solar

Honda Plans to Launch Hydrogen Vehicle Using FCEV Technology

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Honda has been developing hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology for many years and plans to launch a new hydrogen vehicle using this technology. Vice President Ichinose of Honda stated “Honda has long been active in the research and development of fuel cells, which use oxygen and hydrogen to produce electricity.

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Honda Hydrogen Vehicles Isuzu

Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis. Most models used to predict future crop production are statistical models that really don’t take full account of the way changes in water, carbon dioxide and temperature interact to affect sugarcane production.

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Brazil Emissions Global Climate Change

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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MAY 13, 2018

In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant. It can be made available to a variety of markets, such as the manufacturing sector, the electricity, and heating market as well as the mobility sector.

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Store Gas Green Powered

New highly selective and efficient catalyst for reduction of CO2 to CO

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Over the last 20 years, electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction has attracted attention because of the ability to use electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and wave. Testing under identical conditions confirmed the non-porous silver catalyst’s significant advantages over other silver catalysts in water environments.

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CO2 Delaware Lithium Ion Carbon

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

Researchers tailor catalyst microenvironments to enhance CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products

EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

SRI developing process for co-gasification of methane and coal to produce liquid transportation fuels; negligible water consumption, no CO2

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

Texas A&M team developing photocatalyst to turn CO2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Empa researchers investigating new process for production of synthetic methane

Nissan establishes Zero Emission Fund; CO2 offset credits for LEAF owners in Japan

Berkeley Lab copper catalyst yields high-efficiency CO2-to-fuels conversion

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

Berkeley Lab solar-to-fuel system for CO2 to ethanol and ethylene; light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis

Stanford researchers develop copper-based catalyst that produces ethanol from CO at room temperature; potential for closed-loop CO2-to-fuel process

New inexpensive catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO could help with storage of renewable energy

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

Copper foam catalyst yields different product slate from CO2 than smooth electrodes; importance of catalyst architecture

Researchers combining CO2 storage and geothermal energy production

Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

Honda Plans to Launch Hydrogen Vehicle Using FCEV Technology

Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

New highly selective and efficient catalyst for reduction of CO2 to CO

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