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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

But the process of leaving the lab and entering the real world suddenly lifted the veil on all the economic, regulatory, and logistical challenges the startup had yet to solve. The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground.

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Canada Will Spend $300 Million on Hydrogen Export to Germany

DeSmogBlog

Hydrogen derived from natural gas has been widely criticized as an ineffective greenwash that leaks planet-warming methane into the atmosphere. The hydrogen export proposal comes with considerable logistical and technical challenges. To date, ammonia-powered shipping is experimental. This hydrogen is also derived from fossil fuels.

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Unilever, Starbucks are founding members in venture to turn food waste into energy

Business Green

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. Vanguard is in charge of the logistics, taking that burden off the corporations and farmers.

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From Wood Waste to a Carbon-Negative Future: Mote Hydrogen Secures Its Big Break

Hydrogen Fuel News

Mote Hydrogen Secures $7M to Advance Carbon-Negative Biomass-to-Hydrogen Technology Mote Hydrogen, a trailblazer in biomass-to-hydrogen production, has recently raised $7 million in funding, marking the first phase of its Series A round. Importantly, this funding is not merely about building infrastructure.

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'Tipping point'? CNG Fuels eyes surging HGV demand for renewable biomethane

Business Green

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged

That means we can bring the meter negative. When we had that peak last year, we brought down the load to 52 gigawatts, but everything was turned on—methane gas generators, gasoline generators, everything. Now think about a logistics center. A regular demand response program, you go down to zero and then that’s it.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.