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- Scientists improve process for turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into fuel
phys.org / DOI: 10.1039/D2RE00144F. Citation: Scientists improve process for turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into fuel retrieved 29 September 2022 from https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientists-hard-to-recycle-plastic-fuel. (Sep 29 06:37 PM)
- NYPA, GE Successfully Pilot Hydrogen Retrofit at Aeroderivative Gas Turbine
www.powermag.com / A pioneering GE aeroderivative gas turbine project to demonstrate hydrogen combustion as part of a retrofit at an existing U.S. natural gas power plant has successfully utilized blends of 5% to 44% hydrogen with natural gas-some of the highest volumes of hydrogen blended into a commercially operating gas turbine. (Sep 29 03:45 AM)
- Solar Panels Piling Up in Warehouses in Energy-Starved Europe·
finance.yahoo.com / Europe is still set to install a record amount of solar capacity in 2022, but the number would be even higher if all the people clamoring for panels could actually get them, according to Dries Acke, director of Brussels-based lobby group Solar Power Europe. (Sep 28 02:08 PM)
- Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant
abcnews.go.com / The project is “Getting closer and closer to having something with a very stable output profile that we traditionally think of being what’s capable with a fuel-based generation power plant,” said Jason Burwen, vice president of energy storage at the American Clean Power Association, an advocacy group for the clean power industry. (Sep 28 11:02 AM)
- Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam
spectrum.ieee.org / The inverter converts alternating current to direct current when charging the vehicle and back the other way when sending power into the grid. (Sep 27 02:42 PM)
- The U.S. Wind Industry Is Racking Up Big Wins
oilprice.com / In addition to the announcement of ambitious wind energy targets, Biden also rolled out his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law., which strongly supports the growth of America’s wind energy capacity. (Sep 27 12:47 PM)
- Energy saving myths busted: Experts explain how households can reduce bills by ‘over £500’·
www.express.co.uk / Another common tip to reduce bills is to turn the thermostat to high in short bursts. (Sep 26 03:48 PM)
- U.S. nuclear testing’s devastating legacy lingers, 30 years after moratorium
www.nationalgeographic.co.uk / The entire U.S. nuclear stockpile is reviewed annually, mainly through “Subcritical” tests-blasts that don’t produce a nuclear chain reaction but still test weapon components-and computer simulations. (Sep 26 01:11 PM)
- Catalytic process with lignin could enable 100% sustainable aviation fuel
techxplore.com / Researchers at three institutions-the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Washington State University-report success in using lignin as a path toward a drop-in 100% sustainable aviation fuel. (Sep 25 06:23 PM)
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Russia
www.carbonbrief.org / A report from the Russian Association of Wind Power Industry shows that, as of 2019, Russia had 564 wind turbines installed across the country, with an installed capacity of 191MW. For comparison, the wind capacity of Finland was 2,586MW in 2021.Geothermal energy exploitation in Russia has been carried out for the past 60 years. (Sep 25 01:22 PM)
- Overview of RTO/ISOs and grid interconnect for renewables
www.nevadacurrent.com / That’s creating a bottleneck that’s holding up thousands of projects that could help create a cleaner and more resilient grid and tripping up state clean power goals. (Sep 24 03:31 PM)
- From Deep Crisis, Profound Change
rmi.org / To give a sense of what is possible, the chart below illustrates how two factors affect EU energy demand: solar and wind power growth rates and change in total energy demand. (Sep 24 12:16 PM)
- Michigan’s Largest Utility Faces Pushback on Debt Sales and Shut-Offs as Company Asks for Rate Hike·
www.propublica.org / In response to questions about DTE’s debt sales, Guster previously said the sales lowered the financial burden on other customers and that DTE only sold debt from “Closed” accounts, where customers’ utilities had been shut off or residents had moved away from DTE’s service area. (Sep 23 03:29 PM)
- Largest ever green steel investment | Salzgitter approves €723m spend on first stage of hydrogen-focused project·
www.rechargenews.com / German steel producer Salzgitter is to spend €723m on the first development stage of its long-term plan to decarbonise its business – which represents 1% of Germany’s carbon emissions – by the end of 2033. (Jul 23 08:44 PM)
- Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us
time.com / In some cases, air conditioning might even exacerbate our crisis-and it’s clear that there are better, community-wide solutions we should be pursuing instead. During the New York City heat wave of 2019, the limits of air conditioning as a universal solution to urban heat emergencies became obvious. (Jul 23 07:58 PM)
- SDG&E Files Required Budget Proposal With Regulators, Seeks to Empower Clean Energy Future by Investing in Infrastructure Innovations
- Sinopec selects contractors for world’s largest solar-to-hydrogen project·
www.upstreamonline.com / China’s top hydrogen producer Sinopec has lined up contractors to supply equipment for what it is being called the world’s largest solar-to-hydrogen project, to be located in the remote Xinjiang province. (May 17 10:14 AM)
- Philip Morris International Releases 2021 Integrated Report, Introducing New Sustainability Strategy and Sustainability Index
- Sustainable Packaging: Global Markets
- A benchmark dataset for Hydrogen Combustion
www.nature.com / The recent SN2 data set provides reference energy and forces for more than 450,000 structures calculated using Density Functional Theory, but ultimately is data on highly similar individual reactions of methyl halides with one of four substituted halogens, F, Cl, Br, and I6. Capturing the energy release in hydrogen combustion is a proposed energy solution for zero CO2 emissions, and many of the elementary reactions of H2 combustion are also present in other types of fuel generation7. (May 17 09:11 AM)
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