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SigmaRoc to install carbon capture facility


SigmaRoc plc is pleased to announce that it will install its first carbon capture facility in Q1 2023 with the aim to capture all kiln process emissions by 2030, well ahead of its 2040 Net-Zero targets. Highlights: The Group has entered into an agreement with Aqualung Carbon Capture AS (‘Aqualung’) a leading membrane carbon capture and separation technology provider; Each shipping container sized unit will be capable of capturing up to 25% of one of Nordkalk’s typical kiln’s process emissions, using Aqualung’s simple and low


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Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale


Straws, bottles and packaging made with captured greenhouse-gas are starting to reach commercial scale, offering a way for businesses making and using everyday products to reduce emissions contributing to global warming.  Locking up greenhouse gas in ingredients that go into products can be costly compared with petroleum-based options and presents hurdles to building out enough


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CEMEX and RTI awarded $3.7 million cooperative agreement to advance carbon capture technology in cement manufacturing


CEMEX USA announced today that as part of its Future in Action program aimed at cutting CO2 emissions throughout its value chain, the company has been awarded a $3.7 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy in collaboration with non-profit research institute RTI International. Other partners on the project include SLB, a global technology


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Electrochaea Joins New European Cleantech Scale-Up Coalition, Supported by Breakthrough Energy and Kadri Simson


German Power-to-Gas specialist Electrochaea joined seven other leading European cleantech companies to announce the formation of a new Cleantech Scale-up Coalition, with the goal of helping Europe become climate neutral, energy autonomous and industrially competitive. The coalition is supported by Breakthrough Energy, founded by Bill Gates, and Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy, both in


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Electrochaea tritt der neuen europäischen Cleantech Scale-Up-Koalition bei, die von Breakthrough Energy und Kadri Simson unterstützt wird


Der deutsche Power-to-Gas-Spezialist Electrochaea hat zusammen mit sieben anderen führenden europäischen Cleantech-Unternehmen die Gründung einer neuen Cleantech Scale-up-Coalition bekannt gegeben, deren Ziel es ist, Europa zu helfen, klimaneutral, energieautonom und industriell wettbewerbsfähig zu werden. Unterstützt wird die Koalition von der von Bill Gates gegründeten Breakthrough Energy undvon Kadri Simson, der EU-Kommissarin für Energie, die beide


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Circular Economy: TotalEnergies and Air Liquide innovate to produce Renewable, Low Carbon Hydrogen at the Grandpuits Zero Crude Platform


TotalEnergies and Air Liquide are innovating to produce and valorize renewable, low carbon hydrogen at the Grandpuits zero crude platform. Under a long-term contract committing TotalEnergies to purchase the hydrogen produced for the needs of its platform, Air Liquide will invest over €130 million in the construction and operation of a new unit producing hydrogen.


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Nächstes großes Wasserstoff-Vorhaben: Zwei Big Player an einem Strang – die Details


Immer mehr Unternehmen gehen innovative Wege, um eine ressourcenschonende Kreislaufwirtschaft zu etablieren. So auch der Industriegase-Riese Air Liquide und der Energie-Gigant TotalEnergies. Beide Unternehmen wollen die Produktion von erneuerbaren und kohlenstoffarmen Wasserstoff im Rahmen der Umwandlung des Total-Energies-Standorts Grandpuits ermöglichen. Air Liquide nimmt über 130 Millionen Euro in die Hand, um den Bau und den


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Towards a zero-emission construction trade


Al last, the need to work towards zero-emission construction seems to dawn on the construction trade. Not an easy task, as the volume of building projects around the world is still growing. But at least, some in the branch have started thinking about how to achieve this goal. 8% of world-wide CO2 emissions A recent issue of


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This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks


How can we remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from fossil-fuel power plant exhaust before it ever reaches the atmosphere? New findings suggest a promising answer lies in a simple, economical and potentially reusable material analyzed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists from several institutions have determined why this material


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Engineered living photosynthetic biocomposites for intensified biological carbon capture


Abstract Carbon capture and storage is required to meet Paris Agreement targets. Photosynthesis is nature’s carbon capture technology. Drawing inspiration from lichen, we engineered 3D photosynthetic cyanobacterial biocomposites (i.e., lichen mimics) using acrylic latex polymers applied to loofah sponge. Biocomposites had CO2 uptake rates of 1.57 ± 0.08 g CO2 g−1biomass d−1. Uptake rates were based on the dry biomass at


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