May 2020

25.05.2020

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Newsletter of Week 22 of 2020

The newsletter of calendar week 22 of 2020 is now available here.


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25.05.2020

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Medium: How Geoengineering will change the world

"What is solar radiation management and why has it become a feasible option in battling climate change?"

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25.05.2020

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Offshore Engineer: Japan's JX Nippon Taps KBR for CCS, Hydrogen Study

"U.S. engineering and construction giant KBR has been awarded a contract for Carbon Capture and Sequestration works at JX Nippon's offshore oil and gas fields in South East Asia."

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25.05.2020

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PV Magazine: Morrison government paves the way for brown hydrogen industry

"The new legislation will clear the way for a new carbon and capture storage project in Victoria and create new jobs and opportunities for coal in the region, undermining the efforts to create a green hydrogen economy in Australia."

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25.05.2020

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gCaptain: ‘Historic’ Investment Decision on Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project Offshore Norway

"Equinor, Shell and Total announced their decision Friday to invest in the Northern Lights project in in Norway’s first exploitation license for carbon dioxide storage. Initial investments will total almost NOK 6.9 billion (USD 673 million)."

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25.05.2020

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Biomass Magazine: DOE to fund projects that gasify a mix of coal and biomass

"The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy on May 18 announced plans to offer funding for new projects that gasify a mix of coal and biomass to generate electric power and a carbon-free hydrogen coproduct."

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25.05.2020

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Job: Heriot-Watt University: Assistant/Associate Professors in Decarbonisation

Deadline: 23. June 2020

"Candidates will be expected to have a strong track record of research in assessing and/or developing solutions to mitigate climate change, germane with the Research Centre on Carbon Solutions (RCCS). This may include but is not limited to:
• Carbon dioxide capture, transport and utilisation
• Hybrid energy generation systems and energy storage
• Green/blue hydrogen and hydrogen infrastructure
• Fuel flexibility and energy vectors
• Systems analysis and modelling of climate change mitigation strategies"

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25.05.2020

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Global CO2 Initiative: The Techno-Economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment Toolkit

"The Global CO2 Initiative will build upon the initial efforts of its research partners to establish a global, industry-standard Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Analysis (TEA / LCA) Toolkit."

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23.05.2020

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Recharge: ‘Greener-than-green hydrogen to be produced at same cost as grey H2 at world’s largest facility’

"US start-up's plasma-enhanced gasification plant, due to be completed in 2022, could be a major breakthrough for the much-needed zero-carbon fuel, writes Leigh Collins."

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23.05.2020

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Waller, Laurie; et al. 2020: “Contested Framings of Greenhouse Gas Removal and Its Feasibility: Social and Political Dimensions.”

Waller, Laurie, Tim Rayner, Jason Chilvers, Clair Amanda Gough, Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan, and Naomi Vaughan. 2020: “Contested Framings of Greenhouse Gas Removal and Its Feasibility: Social and Political Dimensions.” WIREs Climate Change, May. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.649.

"‌We conduct one of the first reviews of the international peer‐reviewed literature pertaining to the social and political dimensions of large‐scale GGR, with a specific focus on two predominant approaches: Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation/reforestation (AR). "

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