Plan for Large Green Ammonia Production Plant for Shipping Industry
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 December 2020 07:55
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Porsgrunn is Yara's facility in Norway that would be converted to green ammonia production - Yara photo
With attention focused on the potential of ammonia as the fuel source of the future for the shipping industry, Norway’s chemical and fertilizer company Yara announced plans for full-scale green ammonia project. Speaking at its investor seminar, the company said it would be possible by 2026 to convert its exiting ammonia plant to create the first commercial scale green ammonia project providing emissions-free fuel for the shipping industry and to decarbonize food production.
“Ammonia is the most promising hydrogen carrier and zero-carbon shipping fuel,” Svein Tore Holsether, President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara told the investor conference. “I am
European Hydrogen Forum: EU moves ahead with the clean hydrogen agenda
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- Published on Thursday, 26 November 2020 06:08
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26 nov 2020
The European Hydrogen Forum, the first assembly of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, announced as part of the new industrial strategy for Europe in March and launched in July 2020 together with the EU Hydrogen Strategy, will take place on 26-27 November. Attended by Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson and Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel, this high-level event focuses on how to help EU hydrogen research and industry to achieve EU's climate neutrality goals. Already joined by over 800 key stakeholders, the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance aims at an ambitious deployment of green hydrogen technologies in Europe by 2030, bringing together renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production and demand in industry, mobility and other sectors, and hydrogen transmission and distribution.
What is offshore renewable energy?
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- Published on Monday, 23 November 2020 08:05
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- What is offshore renewable energy?
Offshore renewable energy can come from a diversity of abundant, natural and clean sources. The technologies to exploit them are at different stages of development.
- Offshore bottom-fixed wind is already advanced, with 12 GW installed today in EU waters.
- Floating offshore wind has an installed capacity of 40MW and some Member States are announcing large commercial projects.
- Ocean energy technologies such as wave and tidal devices, with a current installed capacity of 13 MW, are reaching a level of maturity that makes them interesting for future applications.
- Additional technologies, such as biofuels from algae (biodiesel, biogas and bioethanol), floating photovoltaic installations and thermal energy conversion are at an early development stage today, but could be promising for the future.
Let’s talk about the wings
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- Published on Monday, 23 November 2020 16:52
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Oceanbird is like no other cargo vessel. Mostly because of its 80 metres high wings, which gives the ship enough power to transport 7,000 cars across the ocean.
Evolution equipped birds with wings to enable them to harness the power of the wind. It’s the same with Oceanbird. But instead of feathers, the wings are made of steel and composite materials. Thanks to a telescopic function, the wings can be reduced to a quarter of its length – from 80 to 20 metres. This function is key for several reasons, most important being:
U.N. approves ban on heavy ship fuel in Arctic
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- Published on Friday, 20 November 2020 18:11
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LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations shipping agency on Friday approved a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic region in a move criticised by green groups which said loopholes will allow many vessels to keep sailing without enough regulatory control.
FILE PHOTO: Floating ice is seen during the expedition of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship in the Arctic Ocean, September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas/File Photo
Antarctic waters are protected by stringent regulations, including a ban on heavy oil fuel (HFO) adopted in 2011, even though no cargo moves through the turbulent southern waters. For the Arctic, the rules have been looser.
In a virtual session of its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) the UN’s International Maritime