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Capture carbon with your joystick!

12th August 2021

Abertay University, carbon capture, carbon storage, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, net-zero, SSE Thermal, Technology, video game

Abertay University, carbon capture, carbon storage, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, net-zero, SSE thermal, Technology, video game

Capture carbon with your joystick! : An educational video game that will concentrate on carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the new project that unified SSE Thermal & Abertay University. After a competition that requested students to present their ideas for an interactive video game built around CCS, a group of 4 students were awarded…

Yorkshire upgrades to large scale hydrogen storage

Yorkshire upgrades to large scale hydrogen storage: SSE Thermal & Equinor have now revealed ideas to update their Aldbrough, Yorkshire gas storage site to a hydrogen storage facility. The partners have announced the plant, which is situated on the East Yorkshire coast, could begin operations as early as 2028. The facility is made up of…

Scotland’s 1st big carbon capture & storage project

Scotland’s 1st big carbon capture & storage project: INEOS, a petrochemicals giant, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work jointly with other significant companies to create what is portrayed as Scotland’s 1st carbon capture and storage (CCS) scheme. Associates for the alleged Acorn project incorporate Storegga, Shell & Harbour Energy. The establishment, that…

Drax’s carbon capture claims not based on real-world data

Drax’s carbon capture claims not based on real-world data, company reveals to campaigners. -Drax’s carbon capture announcements claims appear motivated by quest for new multi-billion pound subsidies, environmental campaigners warn’- London, 14th June 2021 – The environmental campaign group Biofuelwatch is today publishing written statements by Drax [1] which reveal that the company’s claim that they are…

Keadby Carbon Capture Power Station plans revealed

10th June 2021

Heather Trudeau

carbon capture, CCS, emissions, Infrastructure, Keadby 3, planning application, SSE Thermal, Technology, Top Stories, UK, ZCH

carbon capture, CS, emissions, Infrastructure, Keadby3, planning application, SSE thermal, Technology, Top Stories, UK, ZCH

Keadby Carbon Capture Power Station plans revealed SSE Thermal and Equinor have recently submitted a planning application for what could possibly be one of the UK’s premier power stations which will be fully equipped with carbon capture tech. The Keadby Carbon Capture Power Station or ‘Keadby 3’ will be a brand new power station located…

Drax & MHI join forces in carbon capture tech contract

Drax & MHI join forces in carbon capture tech contract: Drax Group & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, on behalf of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), have both signed a carbon capture cooperation deal. Drax plans to set up the MHI technology located at its biomass-fired power plant not far from Selby, North Yorkshire. The company using…

New green technology funding

In an announcement made last week, the government stated that their would be a £166 million cash boost in new green technology funding. This cash boost aims to assist businesses in the manufacturing, steel energy and waste sectors to decarbonise their operations. Businesses and projects the currently use technologies such as greenhouse gas removal and…

Could solvent based tech be the key to carbon capture?

5th May 2021

Heather Trudeau

C-Capture, carbon capture, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, Low Carbon, net-zero, solvent, Technology

Could solvent based tech be the key to carbon capture?: A new technique, incorporating a ground-breaking solvent-based technology, has been advanced to contain carbon dioxide. This has been established by C-Capture, a firm based in Leeds, and will be put to the test by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), on behalf of a pilot programme.…

Government to ban financing fossil fuel plans overseas

Government to ban financing fossil fuel plans overseas: The UK will halt financing overseas fossil fuel projects starting 31st March, succeeding a trailblazing North Sea Transition Deal settled between the government & the oil and gas sector. This new agreement will have policymakers & industry invest as much as £16b in renewables, hydrogen & carbon…

bp plans blue hydrogen production establishment

bp plans blue hydrogen production establishment: bp revealed plans today to create what is claimed to be the UK’s largest blue hydrogen production facility. Situated in Teesside, the large-scale plan, which may begin running sooner than 2027, is expected to have a 1GW production volume by 2030, about 20% of the UK’s hydrogen goal. bp…

carbon capture

Capture carbon with your joystick!

Yorkshire upgrades to large scale hydrogen storage

Scotland’s 1st big carbon capture & storage project

Drax’s carbon capture claims not based on real-world data

Keadby Carbon Capture Power Station plans revealed

Drax & MHI join forces in carbon capture tech contract

New green technology funding

Could solvent based tech be the key to carbon capture?

Government to ban financing fossil fuel plans overseas

bp plans blue hydrogen production establishment

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