Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

In a recent open letter, 120 scientists and academics have called on the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics to reconsider the use of Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen-powered vehicles as the official fleet. Despite these current drawbacks, advancements in hydrogen technology are underway to make it more scalable and environmentally friendly.

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CleanTech Group

JULY 2, 2024

Plastic eating enzymes, zero carbon hydrogen, and green methanol captured from waste stream flare gas: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food . The post Recent Deals – 2 July 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 11, 2024

The quest for sustainable energy sources has led to a surge in the exploration of green hydrogen, a clean fuel derived from the electrolysis of water. This process, particularly regarding reverse osmosis (RO), has been spotlighted in a recent study as a viable method for utilizing tertiary treated wastewater in green hydrogen electrolysis.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The nature of the organic matter can be of plant or animal origin and is typically a biproduct of wastewater, agriculture, or food industries. Biogas itself is made up of primarily methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as small amounts of other gases such as nitrogen (N2), hydrogen (H2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

The PigProGrAm scheme, backed by £600k of government money, has brought farming and engineering expertise together to demonstrate a solution for the harvesting of green ammonia from pig waste, with the possibility that this could be used in the generation of hydrogen.

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CleanTech Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Hydrogen-based powertrains for zero-emission aviation, carbon-negative powerplants, and genome-editing for speciality crops: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food Pairwise (2018). The post Recent Deals – 24 September 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

The government has unlocked £5m of funding to support the rollout of innovative new technologies that will generate hydrogen fuel from biomass and waste feedstocks, it announced this morning.

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CleanTech Group

APRIL 23, 2024

Engineered alternatives to spider silk, carbon tracking and emission monitoring, hydrogen refuelling stations, and waste commerce tracking: Find Recent Deals worth looking at. The post Recent Deals – 23 April 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He said the study demonstrates an environmentally friendly and sustainable strategy for the large-scale production of methane and hydrogen from agricultural waste.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change. It took less than six months for that prevailing wisdom to be proven wrong.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

If you want to pursue this career, you can find many entry level environmental consulting jobs in the field of waste management, pollution control, or environmental impact assessments. This has significantly boosted the demand for consultants who specialize in understanding and navigating these complex regulations.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In addition to this, the plant ingeniously uses waste materials, particularly orchard wood waste, to generate renewable hydrogen. A: Renewable fuel, also known as biofuel , is a type of fuel that is derived from organic materials such as plants or animal waste. Q2: What is renewable diesel?

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Agriculture Capro-X deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. H2PRO is introducing a novel hydrogen-production technology: E-TAC. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

COI Energy , whose digital energy-management platform eliminates energy waste in buildings and repurposes that waste for good. Kanin Energy , a startup helping heavy industry monetize its waste heat and decarbonize its operations with waste-heat-to-power, carbon capture, and heat pump solutions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

An important aspect of keeping things running well is having access to a trustworthy fuel supply, particularly for industries that rely mostly on diesel, like construction, agriculture, transportation, and beyond. Doing this can diminish waste and ensure that you only pay for the fuel you need.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our community Q4 2023, working on innovations as diverse as low-emission steel production, hydrogen electrolyzers, and lightweight, flexible solar panels. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! based on thousands of sources.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Infinium makes biofuel by taking hydrogen made with clean power and electrolysis, combining it with carbon dioxide and running it through two thermochemical processes — turning it into a replacement fuel for airplanes, ships and large trucks. The world of bio-jet fuel is just getting started.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The heavier lift comes from sustainable aviation fuel — SAF, for short — which can be made from a variety of substances, including used fats and oil as well as agricultural waste. Japan Airlines said it will start using biofuel made from household waste beginning in 2022. It’s not just passenger carriers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. One of the films in the Humanising Energy series – “ The evolution of home energy ” – promoted the role of hydrogen in supplying home heating.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about. No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It's the exciting idea that we can take something that could be considered waste, draw it out of the atmosphere and turn it into a source of revenue or economic growth. It is also including ocean sequestration in the mix through its support of Planetary Hydrogen. What’s on my mind? There are signs that give me optimism.

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CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 10, 2021

Because rDME’s properties allow it to cost-effectively store and transport renewable hydrogen, this milestone unlocks Oberon’s ability to reduce emissions from transportation today, while accelerating the development of the hydrogen economy and a net-zero carbon future.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Hydrotreated esters and fatty acids (HEFA) While HEFA synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) is currently the only commercial pathway being used at scale to produce SAF, current feedstocks (which include waste fats, oils and greases) are limited. Renewable electricity is used in an electrolysis process to extract hydrogen from water.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

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Grist

MAY 27, 2024

And not only is it extracting magnesium from ocean water — and from waste brine generated by industry — it is doing it in a carbon-neutral way. Large-scale brine mining could have negative environmental impacts — some waste will need to be disposed of, for example. A company in Oakland, California, says yes.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

”  That leaves basically three options for decarb: electric planes, hydrogen planes, or cleaning up the fuel powering today’s fleet. Kerosene is a “long-chain hydrocarbon”, which means it is made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms (specifically C 12 H 26 C 15 H 32 ).

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Element Resources and Greentown partner Rio Tinto signed a surface lease agreement for the development of a green-hydrogen production facility, powered by an off-grid-solar electricity-generation facility.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Next up was the first set of lightning pitches from Greentown startups, introduced by Greentown’s COO Joubin Hatamzadeh : Capro-X , a startup whose bioprocess produces sustainable biochemicals out of food waste on-site at food-production plants, creating alternatives to palm-oil chemicals with multiple applications.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

These emissions reductions create more space and time for nascent zero emission technologies, such as hydrogen fuelled jets or electric trucks, to be developed and deployed. We get better at capturing certain waste feedstocks, such as used cooking oil, but ultimately, there will be a limit on those," McManus said.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage. Wood and Processing Wastes. Agricultural Crops and Waste Materials.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. In Brazil, some steel mills are mixing in biochar, which is made from agricultural waste. As Boston Metal expands its efforts in electrolysis, many steel companies are placing their bets on hydrogen to curb emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

CIP has stakes in onshore and offshore wind projects as well as solar, energy storage, transmission and waste to energy. Vestas said the deal would enable it to “further expand its presence in renewable project development” including across other renewable technologies. The fund will launch in the first half of 2021.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

billion on hydrogen, the latter boosted substantially by major investment programs by France and Germany. trillion of stimulus spent to date in "environmentally impactful" sectors, such as agriculture, industry, waste, energy and transport, could be deemed "green.". billion on hydrogen. Meanwhile, $86.1 Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

That is according to a new report published by Green Alliance this morning, which urges Ministers to back power-to-liquid fuel in its forthcoming Jet Zero Strategy, noting the synthetic fuel produced with green hydrogen and carbon captured directly from the air is the "only net zero carbon" aviation fuel in development today.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Would this reduce the agricultural sector’s greenhouse gas emissions? The Haber-Bosch process splits hydrogen from coal and natural gas, creating free hydrogen ions that combine with nitrogen gas in air to produce ammonia, a raw product for inorganic fertiliser production. Is it possible to produce nitrogen fertiliser on-farm?

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