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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020. The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. Back then, it was the biggest coal-fired power plant in the Nordic countries.

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New high-pressure dry-solids feed pump could make high-efficiency, lower-emission gasification economically competitive

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In a project ( DE-FC26-04NT42237 ) funded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has developed a high-pressure dry-solids feed pump that could make gasification economically competitive by improving efficiencies and introducing low-rank Western coal as a viable feedstock option. Source: NETL.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Components production (electrode rolls, separator rolls, electrolyte) was in Japan, and assembly (cells, modules and pack) in Renault’s Bursa factory (Turkey) on a specific assembly line. consumption. ?.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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Examining the role of shale gas, PwC’s report suggests that at current rates of consumption, replacing 10% of global oil and coal consumption with gas could deliver emissions savings of around 3% a year (1gt CO 2 e per annum). E7 economies—the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Cheers — Al Louard 11.

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