Nickel-Mining Plants To Juice EV Battery Supply Chain

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:20:36 +0000

A new, plant-based source of nickel could help spare the EV battery supply chain from the burden of environmental impacts related to mining.

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UK Commercial Gas Power Project Equipped With Carbon Capture Unveils Contractors

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:12:23 +0000

Eight engineering, procurement, and construction contract packages have been unveiled for the UK’s Teesside-based Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power), a landmark integrated project that could become one of the […]

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NZT Power, a joint venture between BP and Equinor, aims to be the world’s first commercial-scale gas-fired power station with carbon capture technology and will provide flexible and dispatchable electricity to complement the growing deployment of intermittent forms of renewable energy. The project has a proposed capacity of 860 MW and could capture up to 2 million tonnes of CO2 per year will be captured at the plant. Courtesy: NZT Power

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CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:44:35 +0000

For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.

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Another Day, Another Suspect Ocean Carbon Capture Technology

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:33:07 +0000

Carbon capture is back on the hype cycle, years after it was last being pushed upon us as the only real solution to our climate change problem because . It’s a favorite of the fossil fuel industry for obvious reasons. Some of them are even saying the quiet part out loud, that it gives them the social license to not only continue to operate, but to actually increase extraction of coal, oil, and gas.

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Electrolyzing Carbon Dioxide Out Of Sea Water Has Multiple Red Flags

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:15:52 +0000

In recent months I’ve returned to the overlapping subjects of geoengineering and carbon capture, both of which I’d mostly satisfied myself about years ago. Both, however, are re-ascending the hype scale and at least for aspects of geoengineering, my curiosity was unsatisfied.

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UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:11:44 +0000

The 2.6-GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions

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2. Drax’s conversion of its 4-GW coal-fired power plant to a 2.6-GW biomass plant leveraged its existing steam turbines, generators, specially built trains, and pulverizing mills. But to accommodate new storage needs, the company built giant EcoStore biomass domes—advanced technological structures carefully attuned to storing biomass. Courtesy: Drax Group

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Clearing the Air: Is Direct Air Capture a Savior, Distraction, or a Trojan Horse?  

Credit to Author: Stan Kaplan| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:42:41 +0000

Direct air capture (DAC) holds promise to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, potentially becoming a crucial tool in the battle against climate change. Amidst heated debates over its feasibility, […]

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2. The Climeworks Orca Solid DAC pilot plant in Iceland. The plant receives thermal energy from a nearby geothermal facility. Source: Climeworks

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Proposed European Carbon Dioxide Pipelines & Terminals Would Endanger Tens Of Millions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:15:44 +0000

In 2020, a bucolic part of western Mississippi, the tiny village of Satartia, experienced a terrifying disaster. About 300 people … [continued]

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CCS Redux: Global Spend On Carbon Capture Since 1970 Would Have Avoided More CO2 If Spent on Wind & Solar

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:45:42 +0000

Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the … [continued]

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New Direct Air Carbon Capture System Captures Water, Too

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:00:04 +0000

The US Navy has expressed interest in a new energy-efficient, water-saving carbon capture system with a potential electrofuels angle.

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