In Sweden, Vattenfall’s new biofuel heat plant Carpe Futurum in Uppsala, Sweden, has now been inaugurated and taken into operation. The new plant will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 200,000 metric tons per year, compared with when peat and other fossil fuels were used. This will halve the climate footprint for the around 170,000 […]
In Illinois, when a car battery reaches the end of its life, it goes to an automotive shredder that chops it up. Getting out the useful chemicals from these chopped up batteries is no easy task. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to a process called capacitive deionization […]
In Iowa, Iowa Public Radio reports state House Republicans have introduced a bill that would stall the use of eminent domain for securing land for proposed carbon pipelines until March 1, 2023. Landowners in the state are concerned that the companies behind the pipelines will take their land even if they don’t want to sell, […]
In the Philippines, the Department of Energy (DOE) has been carrying out measures to mitigate the impact of the current crisis in Europe to ordinary Filipino consumers. As part of those measures, The DOE is also asking for intervention power to study the flexibility in fuel blending under Biofuel Law that regulates mixing ethanol or […]
In Washington, Dow Jones reports Energy Information Administration data shows ethanol production fell slightly last week to 1.026 million barrels per day, but stocks returned to pandemic levels to 25.95 million barrels, up from 25.27 million barrels the week prior. Analysts had expected production to fall even further to between 1.013 million barrels per day […]
In Ivory Coast, the Spark+ Africa Fund has raised over $40 million in a first close, it was announced on Wednesday. The Fund is the world’s first impact investment fund focused on financing the value chains of clean and modern cooking appliances and fuels, to make them available to more people across Sub-Saharan Africa. Clean […]
In Greece, Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. announced that it has successfully completed marine biofuel trials in cooperation with one of its major charterers, NYK Line, on one of the company’s Capesize Vessels. The biofuel is a 0.50% VLSFO blended with a waste-based and ISCC certified FAME component at a 90% – 10% ratio. Advanced real […]
In Australia, Australian brand Piping Hot Australia and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) announced their research partnership to develop a sustainable fiber made from seaweed. Piping Hot has commissioned this innovative biomaterial research as a vital investment in its mission for clean oceans. Commencing in February 2022, UTS climate scientists began building a prototype fiber […]
In Northern Ireland, Oftec Ireland is calling on the Northern Ireland government to consider a realistic approach when ‘The Decarbonizing Heat consultation’ arrives later this year because of the risk of increasing poverty levels if it is done in a way that further pressures household economies. Heat pumps and retrofitting will be the right choice […]
In China, chemists have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a chemical reaction whose improved performance will be essential if carbon capture and utilization efforts are to succeed in helping to mitigate global warming. One possible means of carbon-capture-and-utilization is via a chemical reaction […]
