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Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions on par With Denmark

DeSmogBlog

This story is the fourth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with Le Monde. Our calculations factored in methane leaks in the natural gas supply chain and the partial efficiency of carbon capture units. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. References Pollution Action Note – Data you need to know.

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We are betting the bank on hydrogen. But are we ready for it?

Envirotec Magazine

Just after the Big Bang, the universe was shrouded in a mist of hydrogen, and this oldest element is still all around us: in water (H 2 O), natural gas (with main component methane CH 4 ), and ammonia (NH 3 ). The Northern Netherlands are the Hydrogen Valley Campus Europe .

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Synthetic methane injection into France’s gas distribution grid demonstrated

Smart Energy International

French green gas start-up Energo has demonstrated the injection of synthetic methane into GRDF’s gas distribution network. The demonstration, a first in France, was undertaken as a regulatory sandbox initiative to confirm the feasibility of synthetic methane injection in the network.

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ExxonMobil Urges EU to Remove ‘Policy Hurdles’ Slowing Oil Industry’s Hydrogen Plans

DeSmogBlog

You need to remove policy hurdles such as in the Renewable Energy Directive, so that you can faster scale the hydrogen economy in Europe, and use that to build out the infrastructure”, Simon Herbert, ExxonMobil’s vice-president of low carbon solutions, told the World Hydrogen 2024 conference in Rotterdam last week.

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Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Envirotec Magazine

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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Pop goes the diesel?

Envirotec Magazine

The rollout was part of a project investigating how hydrogen-fuelled trucks can reduce emissions in refuse vehicles, called HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project, which involves seven European trials in total.

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