Nuclear Power Plants Scale Down To Pump Out Sustainable H2
A new small modular reactor pilot project in Ukraine could provide nuclear power plants with new reasons for being, including sustainable hydrogen and ammonia production.
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You Get A Green Hydrogen Hub! And You Get A Green Hydrogen Hub!
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts cook up a scheme in anticipation of $8 billion in federal funding for green hydrogen hubs.
ExxonMobil Revives Zombie Carbon Capture Project
ExxonMobil is still trying to make carbon capture happen, but a partnership with FuelCell Energy might just delay the inevitable.
$20 Million Sez Solar Powered FCEVs Are On The Way
The US Department of Energy has just announced a new $20 million round of funding to bump the market for FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles) up to the next level. Of the ten winning projects, four deal with hydrogen fueling stations and six deal with new ways of producing hydrogen … [continued]
Fuel Cell-Coal Plant CO2 Capture: Clean Tech Breakthrough or Ill-Conceived Diversion?
The third in a series, this post explains the workings and the principal aims of a DOE project in which Connecticut’s FuelCell Energy will use its Direct FuelCell technology to capture 90% of a coal-fired power plant’s CO2 emissions at a 35% or less increased in the cost of electricity.
Coal Plant + New Fuel Cell System = 90% Reduction in CO2 Emissions?
If successful, FuelCell Energy’s system will separate and capture 90% or more of the CO2 emitted from a coal-fired power plant’s flue stream. The CO2, along with hydrogen ‘reformed’ from natural gas, will be used to drive a fuel cell that produces clean electricity that will add to the plant’s energy output. Nitrogen oxides (NOX), another potent greenhouse gas, will also be captured, but destroyed in the process. Emissions from the fuel cell system: water.
Are Fuel Cells the Answer to Coal Power Plant CO2 Capture?
Fuel cells may hold the key to solving the increasingly urgent problem of how to capture CO2 emissions from coal-fired and other fossil fuel plants, at least that’s what fuel cell proponents assert and the US Dept. of Energy (DOE) intends to find out by conducting a 3-year study and awarding $3 million to FuelCell Energy.
Hydrogen for 200 Million Vehicles: Air Products/Orange County Open Wastewater-Hydrogen Fuel Plant
A new Air Products hydrogen fueling plant at the Orange County Sanitation District wastewater facility in Fountain Valley, California is producing clean, renewable electricity and hydrogen fuel and heat for use on-site and in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The wastewater-biogas-power-and-fuel plant could open up significant opportunities to use similar designs and technology to manage water and process agricultural, food and brewery waste streams.
