Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, some sectors remain difficult to decarbonize using such methods, including heavy industry, heating, and certain transport sectors, such as aviation and shipping. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). Renewable energy, electrification, and battery storage are primary solutions. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 11, 2025

This process occurs in the absence of oxygen and results in the production of biogas, primarily composed of methane and carbon dioxide. This involves a chemical process where the methane reacts with steam under high temperatures to produce hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 24, 2025

If these hydrogen reserves can be effectively mined and distributed, they could play an integral role in reducing dependence on fossil fuels while supporting energy-hungry industries like steelmaking, heavy transportation, and aviation, where fully electrified solutions are still unfeasible.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Meanwhile, there are applications with few low-carbon options that need the biomass more, such as biofuels for aviation," said Meera Atreya, Energy Transitions Commission Bioeconomy lead. "We try to understand bioresource demand and to prioritize its use, using it as a resource where there are no other low-carbon options.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. WHAT THE AVIATION INDUSTRY TELLS YOU WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU Happening soon New aircraft propelled by hydrogen could enter into service by 2035. times that of CO 2 alone.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Among the most promising frontiers is the advent of cryo-compressed hydrogen, a powerful energy carrier poised to revolutionize the aviation industry. Moreover, we delve into its burgeoning application in aviation, where the prospects of zero-emission air travel are no longer just a lofty aspiration but inching towards tangible reality.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The UK is set to launch a global aviation coalition at the COP26 Climate Summit that will aim to rally more countries behind a long-term target to reduce emissions from international flights. The aviation sector produces more emissions than most countries in the world, and overall accounts for roughly 2.5

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

That’s seen as especially valuable for cleaning up aviation , maritime shipping, and heavy industries like steel that are more difficult to run on renewable energy and batteries. The alternative to electrolysis is a process called steam-methane reforming.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. Capital needs for smaller landfill projects run from $5m to $25m.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 17, 2024

The transportation sector also benefits from hydrogen, particularly in aviation, shipping, and trucking. Blue hydrogen, derived from natural gas through steam methane reforming (SMR), currently costs approximately $2-5/kg. ” Blue hydrogen benefits from existing natural gas infrastructure and relative ease of obtaining methane.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week’s edition of Quick Hits covers the following: The stepped-up efforts to track methane leaks. The bang-up job the United Kingdom is doing in electrification, and finally, A new form of aviation that might hit the skies as early as next year. Rising tides.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2021

Food waste could be instrumental in producing sustainable aviation fuel, according to a recent study. Greenhouse gases from the aviation industry contribute 12% of transportation emissions and are bound to continue growing. Original post: Turning food waste into aviation fuel could greatly reduce emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Energy Central

JULY 31, 2024

Hydrogen aviation start-up ZeroAvia and Dutch airline KLM planning on 2026 hydrogen powered demonstration flight with 80-seater plane using ZeroAvia’s powertrain with 2.4MW fuel cells.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

VIA BioFuels produces and sells premium drop-in fuels and chemical feedstocks—based on bio-produced molecules—to the international transportation, aviation, and chemical industries. This tech reduces a cement kiln’s emissions by 50 percent, without changing the properties or chemistry of the cement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The difficulty is that each type of transportation - road, rail, aviation, shipping - requires a different strategy to curb emissions. However, from an emissions point of view, the trickier sectors of aviation and shipping need to be addressed. Aviation demand offsets efficiency gains. Alternative fuels are a potential answer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As DeSmog explains, “there are several ways to produce hydrogen, but almost all of it currently in production uses methane (natural gas) as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.” To understand why Big Oil is so keen on hydrogen, you need to understand the color code.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

” Renewable natural gas — methane captured from landfills, dairy farms and other sources — could replace a small portion of the fossil natural gas now filling pipelines. But both replacements are highly unlikely to be able to grow to the scale needed to replace the volume of fossil natural gas now used in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

During the film, an Invenergy spokesperson suggested that natural gas generates 30 percent less carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels, neglecting the fact that natural gas is composed largely of methane, which is over 80 times more potent than CO2 across a 20 year period. Aviation contributes approximately 2.5

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The plan would see £904m invested in projects across Britain between 2021 and 2026 to prepare the gas grid for a switchover from using methane natural gas - a fossil fuel - to instead use zero carbon hydrogen and biomethane in support of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

RNG can also be produced via methanation, in which either synthesis gas from biomass gasification or carbon dioxide emissions from a variety of sources are converted into methane in combination with green hydrogen. . All these present ideal opportunities for the use of RNG.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, today's study estimates that emissions from the production - rather than the use - of blue hydrogen "are quite high", and that resulting greenhouse gas emissions, including both CO2 and methane, are "more than 20 per cent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat, and some 60 per cent greater than burning diesel oil for heat".

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EDF + Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Consolidation might even be better for the environment Something else we know is that industry urgently needs to eliminate methane emissions. All the largest western oil and gas companies have joined OGMP 2.0 , committing to significantly reduce methane intensity and flaring.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The company takes this process a step further by combining the green hydrogen with captured carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce e-Methanol, e-Methane, and other clean fuels, collectively known as e-Fuels. Green ammonia, another product in StormFishers arsenal, also holds potential for use in cleaner fertilizers and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It comes amid growing pressure on airlines to tackle their climate impact, with the global aviation sector estimated to account for between two and 3.5 Both projects are certified by the Verified Carbon Standard, according to Wizz Air. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

If Covid-19 has taught us one thing, it is that we do not really need travel as much as we thought: transport was the largest emitting sector in the UK in 2019, responsible for over a quarter of all emissions and that excludes emissions from UK-based international aviation bunkers that have more than doubled since 1990.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

With global population of 270 million dairy cows, the global dairy sector's climate impact is thought to be on a similar scale to that of aviation and shipping combined, and tackling emissions from the sector is therefore key to hitting climate targets. per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

A lot of [cargo] carriers and technology providers are trying to figure out what the alternative to bunker fuel is,” said Dan Rutherford, who directs the marine and aviation programs at the International Council on Clean Transportation , or ICCT, in California. Methanol, or CH?OH,

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Hydrogen, which has long been used in industrial processes but is currently derived largely from fossil fuels, is expected to play a major role in decarbonising a number of hard-to-electrify sectors such as heavy industry, long-haul aviation and shipping by displacing fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. Hydrogen offers both aviation and marine transport a route to lower carbon, with examples this year ranging from ammonia for shipping fuel to fuel cells for propeller aircraft, as developed by ZeroAvia. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Planting trees without proper planning could have disastrous consequences, such as when tree-planting occurs on peatland which can result in releasing into the atmosphere vast quantities of carbon and methane that such areas naturally store," Bateman said.

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