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Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

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Roksana Tonny Rashid, Yiqing Chen, Xuedong Liu, Faqrul Alam Chowdhury, Mingxin Liu, Jun Song, Zetian Mi, and Baowen Zhou (2022) “Tunable green syngas generation from CO 2 and H 2 O with sunlight as the only energy input” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121174119. The University of Michigan and Mi have a financial interest in these companies.

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ARPA-E to award up to $45M to support developing marine CO2 removal industry; SEA CO2

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The Sensing Exports of Anthropogenic Carbon Through Ocean Observation ( SEA CO2 ) program recognizes that scalable, cost-effective technologies to measure, report, and validate various mCDR approaches are needed in this still developing industry.

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Mercedes-Benz takes stake in H2 Green Steel; to begin use of green steel in 2025

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Mercedes-Benz AG is the first car manufacturer to take an equity stake in Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) as a way to introduce CO 2 free steel into series production. As a preferred partner of the start-up, we will be launching green steel in various vehicle models as early as 2025.

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thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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We are thus underlining our claim to make a significant and, above all, rapid contribution to the green transformation—also where steel is concerned. In this region, we have everything that is needed for a successful green transformation. In this way, thyssenkrupp is accelerating the start of low-CO2 steel production.

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Sunfire delivers the world’s largest high-temperature electrolyzer to Salzgitter Flachstahl; green steel in GrInHy2.0

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The electrolyzer is expected to be in operation for at least 13,000 hours by the end of 2022, while producing at least 100 tons of green hydrogen from renewable electricity. Green steel requires green hydrogen and the implementation of GrInHy2.0 Green hydrogen is a central building block on our way to low CO2 steel production.

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EEA reports sharp decrease in CO2 emissions of new cars in Europe in 2020

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New car emissions were increasing as recently as two years ago, but the sharp drop last year shows that carmakers respond to CO2 standards. Some carmakers have already said when they will go fully electric, but stricter CO2 standards leading to zero-emissions are needed to ensure the whole industry phases out fossil-fuel engines by 2035.

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Johnson Matthey launches HyCOgen; converting CO2 and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel

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Johnson Matthey has launched HyCOgen, a technologyt designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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