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Gevo and HCS Group Sign Strategic Agreement to Produce Renewable Low-Carbon Chemicals and Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Europe
Gevo, Inc. (“Gevo”), announced today that Gevo and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) to develop and build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germ...
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Major milestones reached in the first commercial CO<sub>2</sub> to Methanol plant
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has delivered the complete process design package for the first-of-its-kind 110.000 ton per year CO2-to-methanol plant, that recycles industrial waste gases. Ground preparations and foundation work is already under...
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New EU project funded to develop cost-effective sustainable aviation fuel using CO<sub>2 </sub>emissions and renewable energy
Aviation is one of the most challenging sectors when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions. One of the reasons is that common alternatives such as electrification or hydrogen propulsion, are not expected to be a suitable substitute to kerosene for long ha...
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Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin
A foundational study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows for the first time that white-rot fungi are able to use carbon captured from lignin as a carbon source.Davinia Salvachúa Rodriguez holds a petri dish ...
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A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide in the Air
Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Credit: Gary Whitton/Shutterstock)Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion tons of carbon d...
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Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one event
Which renewable materials are solutions that meet the needs of future societies? As a response to this challenging question, nova-Institute has decided to unite all relevant industries in the new “Renewable Materials Conference”, May 18–20, 2021 (www.r...
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Cow excrement tapped by town in Hokkaido for CO<sub>2</sub>-free power
The feces and urine of thousands of Hokkaido dairy cows may soon power facilities prefecture-wide with a world-first technology invented in Japan that converts them into environmentally friendly liquid biofuel.Kei Okubo, an organic photochemistry profe...
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Reductive Glycine Pathway: A Versatile Route for One-Carbon Biotech
Hong et al. heterologously expressed the metabolic core of the reductive glycine pathway (rGlyP) as a sink for the anaerobic conversion of glycerol. This recent study concludes several reports in 2020 on the ATP-efficient, one-carbon-assimilating, rGly...
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Bauen mit CO<sub>2</sub>-Technologie wird möglich
Nachhaltigere, CO2-basierte Materialien für den Bausektor – das könnte zukünftig Realität werden. Seit 2016 arbeitet Covestro gemeinsam mit Partnern aus Forschung und Entwicklung im Rahmen des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefö...
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Building with CO<sub>2</sub> technology becomes possible
More sustainable, CO2-based materials for the construction sector – in the future, this could become reality. Since 2016, Covestro has been working with research and development partners as part of the “DreamResource” joint project (F...
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