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Industry Decarbonization Newsletter @industrydec

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Is making fuels and chemicals from nothing but Water, CO₂, and Green Electricity viable?💧🏭⚡ Recently, @liquidwind_se 💧💨, a Swedish project developer for E-Methanol plants, filed for bankruptcy. industrydecarbonization.com/…

Should we give up on E-Methanol and CO₂ utilization?

Liquid Wind, a Swedish developer of E-Methanol projects, filed for bankruptcy. While Green Methanol is an important climate solution, is it time to ask whether making it from nothing but CO₂, Water,...

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How Europe🇪🇺 lost a massive opportunity for the future of the chemical industry🧪🏭 A startup with close ties to shipping🚢 giant Maersk wanted to build a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp, Belgium 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/…

Why China Is Winning the Green Methanol Race

Methanol made from sustainable feedstocks is a key technology for climate-neutral shipping, aviation, and fossil-free chemicals. Chinese companies are already building industrial production facilit...

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China is building a sizeable Green Methanol industry, replicating developments that previously have occured similarly in other cleantech sectors like Solar☀️
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How 8/10 projects in Denmark's CCS latest tender dropped out 🇩🇰 industrydecarbonization.com/…

Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay

In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be...

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What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰? Denmark awarded CCS subsidies💶 in multiple tenders. But those came with a catch: deliver on time - or face hefty penalties. industrydecarbonization.com/…

Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay

In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be...

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Some of the cleanest Caprolactam factories are shutting down 🧪🏭🚧 The production of a chemical used to make Nylon plastics, results in significant N₂O emissions, a potent greenhouse gas🌿🏠🔥, but emissions can easily be avoided. 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/…

Some of the cleanest Polyamide and Nylon precursor Factories are shutting down

The production of a chemical called Caprolactam results in significant N₂O emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. Most EU producers largely avoid these emissions. Some have made investments in drastic...

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SF6, a Greenhouse Gas 25,000 times as bad as CO2 💨🟡🌍🔥 It's been known that reported📊 SF6 emissions&measurements☁️ don't match. Now, scientists have found a significant SF6 source in Southern Germany - a chemical plant🧪🏭 operated by @SolvayGroup industrydecarbonization.com/…

Super-Emitter of the most Damaging Greenhouse Gas found in Germany

Through atmospheric measurements, scientists have identified a chemical factory operated by Solvay in Southern Germany as the source of massive amounts of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF₆) emissions. Being...

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Why does @UNFCCC make it needlessly difficult to download emission data? Whatever the reason, I am now providing downloads of data that should be easily accessible. More: industrydecarbonization.com/…

Why is it needlessly difficult to access UNFCCC Emission Data?

Due to international climate agreements, countries report annual data about their greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC. However, downloading and using that data is a lot more difficult than it...

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Will Enerkem's Waste Gasification tech work in Spain after it failed to deliver in Canada?♨️🗑️ Repsol wants to build a Waste-to-Methanol plant in Tarragona🇪🇸. The tech was used in Edmonton🇨🇦 for ~10y, but never came close to its expected production volumes industrydecarbonization.com/…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?

Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in...

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Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution? industrydecarbonization.com/…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?

Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in...

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Peregrine Hydrogen says they have a way to make H2 that requires 1/2 the electricity by integrating it with another process. By doing so, they make Hydrogen and another product (H2SO4) there is an industry that needs both: Phosphate mines ⛏️⚒️🪨 industrydecarbonization.com/…

This Hydrogen has no Color

Peregrine Hydrogen has an unusual idea for making clean Hydrogen, one that it says fits into existing industrial processes. One of the world's largest Phosphate mining companies is interested.

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You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane industrydecarbonization.com/…

You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane

Carbon capture technology is often associated with ideas of capturing CO₂ from power plants or industrial facilities like cement plants. Biomethane upgraders provide CO₂ that is easy to capture and...

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ArcelorMittal may shutdown its flagship "Smart Carbon" project Steelanol in Belgium 🇧🇪⛓️🏭 What most news don't mention is that Steelanol has a "sister project" called Torero, a biocoal plant🌲🪨🏭 & it appears Torero is not working as expected. industrydecarbonization.com/… #steel

Uncertain Future for ArcelorMittal's Smart Carbon Projects in Belgium

Steel giant ArcelorMittal has been reluctant to invest into Hydrogen-based steelmaking. But its alternatives it calls Smart Carbon are not doing great either. Its flagship Steelanol project in...

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Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy industrydecarbonization.com/…

Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy

Hydrogen and E-Fuels companies want to utilize Iceland's abundant renewable energy sources. But Iceland's largest energy company Landsvirkjun does not want to sell electricity to them. E-Fuels...

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Why power a short-distance Ferry with Liquefied Hydrogen? industrydecarbonization.com/…

Why power a short-distance Ferry with Liquefied Hydrogen?

The passenger ferry MF Hydra in Norway is the world's first ship running on Liquefied Hydrogen (LH₂). The Hydrogen fuel is delivered by truck from Germany - and nobody wants to say where it comes...

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Why the owners of a Shipping Company are investing in Fossil-Free Plastics industrydecarbonization.com/… #plastics #methanol #mto #chemicals

Why the owners of a Shipping Company are investing in Fossil-Free Plastics

A. P. Møller Holding, the largest shareholder of Maersk, has launched a green plastics startup called Vioneo. It wants to build a Methanol-to-Olefins plant in Belgium - the first such factory in...

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