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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the role of biomass in forest management

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the role of biomass in forest management

November 30, 2023 |

The Tule River Indian Reservation is 56,000 acres serving about 2,000 members drawn from Yokuts, Pauite, Mono, Tubatulabal tribes. Found on the foothills and western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, land uses include forestry, cattle ranching, and hunting. With serious challenges including pine beetle kill, wildfire, overstocking, the tribes have turned to biomass usage as […]

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Multiverse’s boosts green hydrogen production via quantum optimization 

Multiverse’s boosts green hydrogen production via quantum optimization 

November 30, 2023 |

In Spain, Multiverse Computing has used quantum algorithms to optimize the electrolysis process for green hydrogen generation. The solution achieves a 5% increase in H2 production and associated revenue delivered by the quantum solver compared to the classical solver.production. The quantum digital twin numerically simulates a green hydrogen production plant by using operating parameters of […]

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Rolls-Royce says hydrogen planes are 15-20 years away

Rolls-Royce says hydrogen planes are 15-20 years away

November 30, 2023 |

In the UK, Rolls Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgi told reporters ““I don’t believe in the next 15, 20 years hydrogen will play a role” in sustainable aviation, saying that SAF is the only viable path forward in the near term. The company is partnered with low-cost carrier EasyJet on a hydrogen technology, and reiterated that […]

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Jordan, Mass Group to to study feasibility of up to 180 kilotons per year of green H2, ammonia

Jordan, Mass Group to to study feasibility of up to 180 kilotons per year of green H2, ammonia

November 30, 2023 |

In Jordan, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Kharabsheh, inked a MOU with the Mass Group Holding energy company, with a goal of conducting feasibility studies for the development of green ammonia and hydrogen projects in Jordan. The MOU targets production of 180,000 tons of green ammonia. It outlines the general framework of cooperation […]

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GreenGo files for Megaton Moon green H2 project in Mauritania

GreenGo files for Megaton Moon green H2 project in Mauritania

November 30, 2023 |

In Mauritania, GreenGo Energy filed an application to Ministry of Petroleum, Energy and Mines for the development of one of the world’s largest green energy parks. Megaton Moon will through a unique architecture and strategic location to the capitol enable truly transformative potential for Mauritania in terms of socioeconomic, green industrial, green farming and urban […]

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Brazil unveils $3.6 billion hydrogen production plan

Brazil unveils $3.6 billion hydrogen production plan

November 30, 2023 |

In Brazil, PV magazine is reporting that the state of Ceará and Spain’s Grupo Jepri signed an agreement for an investment of $3.6B by Jepri to develop a green hydrogen project at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex. The proposed capacity is 1.2 million tons per year, with a construction start in 2025 and production […]

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Northwestern U don unveils ammonia, “superprotonic” approach to power gen

Northwestern U don unveils ammonia, “superprotonic” approach to power gen

November 30, 2023 |

In Massachusetts, Sossina Haile SB ’86, PhD ’92, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, in a recent presentation recent talk at MIT, unveiled a solution to hydrogen transport issues with a technology to use ammonia to “carry” hydrogen, and extract the hydrogen from the ammonia via devices that […]

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Hitachi Energy unveils new hydrogen power alternative to diesel-powered generators

Hitachi Energy unveils new hydrogen power alternative to diesel-powered generators

November 30, 2023 |

In Switzerland, Hitachi Energy is developing a Hydrogen Power Generator demonstration unit with Gothenburg-based fuel cell manufacturer PowerCell Group. PowerCell has provided the power modules and know-how in fuel cell integration and Hitachi Energy has the balance of plant and expertise in power electronics, batteries, cooling, intelligent control, and systems integration. Hitachi Energy expects to […]

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Low-carbon hydrogen needs policy support to reach bold growth goals, study finds

Low-carbon hydrogen needs policy support to reach bold growth goals, study finds

November 30, 2023 |

In California. a study by Cleantech Group finds that a favorable policy environment and $80 – $300B of investment will be required to build the global low-carbon hydrogen economy by 2030. Demand increases are estimated to reach 150 Mt by 2030 and 520 Mt in 2050. The Cleantech group report found that low-carbon hydrogen costs […]

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Infinium lands $75M investment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst for Project Roadrunner

Infinium lands $75M investment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst for Project Roadrunner

November 30, 2023 |

In Texas, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst is making  a $75 million project equity investment commitment to support Infinium’s Project Roadrunner, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions. Project Roadrunner will convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low-carbon fuels. This first-of-a-kind commercial-scale Power-to-Liquids (PtL) eFuels facility is […]

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