"The slow process of obtaining permits, in which companies can invest hundreds of millions of euros and years of effort only to have a mining project canceled, is one of the biggest drags on the industry, said Rolf Kuby, director general of Euromines, an industry lobby. He praised the EU Commission’s recent proposal to streamline the process."
The steelmaker has also invested in other companies adjacent to or crucial to the steelmaking industry, including LanzaTech, which makes carbon-capture tech, and Form Energy, which specializes in long-duration energy storage."
"With that funding, Solarcycle expects to expand its capacity to recycle 1 million solar panels annually by the close of this year. A 'vertically integrated, advanced recycling factory' will follow in 2024, expanding capacity to 'millions of panels.'"
"Under this Administration, there is now a federal policy requiring an APD, or an application for permit to drill, including for environmental and archeological surveys, to traverse a federal lease. Even though most Oklahoma operations are on private lands, we must now wait months or years for a permit to travel across a federal parcel, even if the lease area is only a small portion of a unit. According to the Bureau of Land Management’s data, it now takes an average of 109 days for BLM to approve an APD on federal land."
"The power station is a joint venture between Sembcorp and 8 Rivers Capital, which invented the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle. The process, which has so far only been demonstrated at Net Power’s test facility in La Porte, Texas, burns 4% natural gas and 4% oxygen in a combustor alongside CO2. The combustion process results in 925ºC, 300bar CO2, which is fed through a turboexpander to generate power."
"According to the International Energy Agency, coal is responsible for most global CO2 emissions. With this information, Beauchamp gives the framework on how sour gas can quickly help decarbonization targets. 'Across the world, 40% of the world's reserves are sour; 20% are so sour that prior to TarT, they were technically and economically irrecoverable,' said Beauchamp. “These reserves could not be processed with conventional technology."
"A bipartisan bill will be introduced Thursday by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) to re-up a program to foster next–generation agricultural research, including work to address the agriculture sector's ability to withstand extreme weather."
Jeremy Dillon of E&E News reports on the House Republicans’ new energy and permitting package. “‘Every time we need a pipeline, road or dam, an average of almost 5 years and millions of dollars in costs get added to the project to comply with Washington’s permitting process. That’s too long,’ Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said...
"The recent policy actions from the U.S. Congress and the early leadership from the private sector are a tremendous start. But a clear mobilization strategy using public private partnerships is needed now that leverages market forces and government policy to enable carbon removal capacity to be available in the time and scale needed to meet the climate challenge."
"Geothermal plants provide a steady, on-demand source of electricity, known as dispatchable generation. They pump steam or hot water from wells hundreds or thousands of feet underground to power turbines. Some leaders think such projects will complement wind and solar farms, whose production can vary based on weather conditions or the time of day."
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