Power to X

SLS EM1 LH2 tank moves to Cell A source https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Articles, Power to X, Renewables January 11, 2021

Hydrogen: where is low-carbon fuel most useful for decarbonisation?

Is hydrogen the lifeblood of a low-carbon future, or an overhyped distraction from real solutions? One thing is certain – the coal, oil and natural…

Windmill park. El Arrayan (Chile). Photo credit: Alfabille

Articles, Biofuels, Power to X

Wind blows, hydrogen goes

News & Comments, Power to X, Renewables

Europe vies with China for clean hydrogen superpower status

Aviation fuel storage Author Project Kei

News & Comments, Power to X

Europe’s first power-to-liquid demo plant in Norway plans renewable aviation fuel production in 2023

Perito Moreno Glacier, in Los Glaciares National Park, southern Argentina Photo taken by (Luca Galuzzi)

News & Comments, Power to X

Renewable or ‘low-carbon’? EU countries face off over hydrogen

EU member states are fighting over which type of hydrogen to support, with two opposing camps facing off: those backing green hydrogen produced exclusively from…

News & Comments, Power to X December 23, 2020

Hydrogen is an Essential Component of the Energy Transition

Forschungszentrum Jülich’s contribution to the Federal Government’s hydrogen strategy The energy transition is one of the great challenges to society of our time. Germany and…

News & Comments, Power to X December 22, 2020

Siemens and Uniper join forces to decarbonize power generation

April 8, 2020 – Uniper and Siemens Gas and Power signed a cooperation agreement for the development of projects on the decarbonization of power generation and…

BioMCN May 2009, construction nearly complete - wikimedia commons

News & Comments, Power to X, Renewables December 14, 2020

Successful demonstration of conversion of wind power to methanol

Plant operation launched in Stralsund (Germany) for converting renewable electricity into bio methanol. The plant will be operated in a long-term test over one year…

BMW Hydrogen 7 (E68), aufgenommen in Berlin, mit dem Brandenburger Tor im Hintergrund Christian Schütt at de.wikipedia

News & Comments, Power to X, Renewables December 9, 2020

Power-to-X: Germany’s search for green fuels

Germany wants to take a leading role worldwide in the production, transport and use of green hydrogen as an energy source, also known as Power-to-X…

1280px-Wind_power_plants_in_Xinjiang,_China credit wikimedia

News & Comments, Power to X November 23, 2020

1.4 MW Power-To-X Project Underway

Hydrogen will be stored for later use The Dutch energy company Alliander has chosen Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) to supply the electrolyzers for a large-scale…

News & Comments, Power to X, Renewables November 16, 2020

Integrated power-to-fuel project underway in Europe

The Power-to-Fuel project, led by Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden; www.liquidwind.se), will establish commercial-scale renewable fuel facilities. The Consortium (consisting of Axpo, COWI, Carbon Clean Solutions, Haldor…

1 2 »

Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change

Joe Biden’s US election victory has been hailed as a significant turning point in US policy on everything from racial injustice to the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are few areas where the president-elect differs from his predecessor more than climate change, a topic that…

Articles Climate Change

Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact

Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle. Think of it as a suicide pact on ice – global warming and Arctic sea ice in…

Articles Biomass

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk,…

Articles Nature & Environment

The plastic myth and the misunderstood triangle

Of all the plastic we’ve ever produced, only 9% has been recycled. So what happened to all that plastic you’ve put in the recycling bin over the years? Hands up if you grew up thinking that recycling plastic waste is…

Articles Power to X Renewables

Hydrogen: where is low-carbon fuel most useful for decarbonisation?

Is hydrogen the lifeblood of a low-carbon future, or an overhyped distraction from real solutions? One thing is certain – the coal, oil and natural gas which currently power much of daily life must be phased out within coming decades.…

Articles Nature & Environment

Wildfires’ toxic air leaves damage long after the smoke clears

When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to…

Articles Climate Change

Climate literacy is essential for effective change

We need to make it easier to understand basic climate science and emissions reductions. We know less than we think we know about climate. And we know even less than that about our carbon footprint. This doesn’t mean we’re all idiots.…

Articles Climate Change Green Tech Sustainability

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: what next?

Experts react to President Xi’s statement that China will up its climate ambition by striving for carbon neutrality by 2060. In a virtual address to the 75th UN General Assembly on 22 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would…

Articles Innovation Policy & Strategy

Ring out the old, ring in the new

Now is the time to plant the seeds of innovation. The pandemic has been too global and too prolonged to be considered just one of those temporary situations. Better to forget the let’s-get-back-to-2019 prayers. They are filled with hopes of…

Articles Coal Renewables

The green and the black

As the profound global impact of Covid-19 continues to unfold, those whose job it is to forecast the future have had to scramble for their calculators. This has proved just as true for the widely cited projections of global energy…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.