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How Europe🇪🇺 lost a massive opportunity for the future of the chemical industry🧪🏭
A startup with close ties to shipping🚢 giant Maersk wanted to build a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp, Belgium 🧵
https://t.co/W9xDL41YHu

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China is building a sizeable Green Methanol industry, replicating developments that previously have occured similarly in other cleantech sectors like Solar☀️

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How 8/10 projects in Denmark's CCS latest tender dropped out 🇩🇰
https://t.co/GkhUjNmdux

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What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
Denmark awarded CCS subsidies💶 in multiple tenders. But those came with a catch: deliver on time - or face hefty penalties. https://t.co/woNJ5wjNQ3

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Some of the cleanest Caprolactam factories are shutting down 🧪🏭🚧
The production of a chemical used to make Nylon+plastics, results in significant N₂O emissions, a potent greenhouse gas🌿🏠🔥, but emissions can easily be avoided. 🔌💡

https://t.co/JemN63HPLj

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SF6, a Greenhouse Gas 25,000 times as bad as CO2 💨🟡🌍🔥
It's been known that reported📊 SF6 emissions&measurements☁️ don't match. Now, scientists have found a significant SF6 source in Southern Germany - a chemical plant🧪🏭 operated by @SolvayGroup
https://t.co/eMFUVg90x6

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Why does @UNFCCC make it needlessly difficult to download emission data? Whatever the reason, I am now providing downloads of data that should be easily accessible. More: https://t.co/vLPdtelgzj

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Will Enerkem's Waste Gasification tech work in Spain after it failed to deliver in Canada?♨️🗑️ Repsol wants to build a Waste-to-Methanol plant in Tarragona🇪🇸. The tech was used in Edmonton🇨🇦 for ~10y, but never came close to its expected production volumes https://t.co/XYDtYkTi8w

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Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution? https://t.co/XYDtYkTi8w

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Peregrine Hydrogen says they have a way to make H2 that requires 1/2 the electricity by integrating it with another process. By doing so, they make Hydrogen and another product (H2SO4) + there is an industry that needs both: Phosphate mines ⛏️⚒️🪨 https://t.co/1vHfMqhI3l

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You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane https://t.co/9WTiHl5wHq

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ArcelorMittal may shutdown its flagship "Smart Carbon" project Steelanol in Belgium 🇧🇪⛓️🏭 What most news don't mention is that Steelanol has a "sister project" called Torero, a biocoal plant🌲🪨🏭 & it appears Torero is not working as expected. https://t.co/WtVM7coXVx #steel

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Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy https://t.co/0KrvEMRTCt

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Why power a short-distance Ferry with Liquefied Hydrogen? https://t.co/ajwTtTN4At

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Why the owners of a Shipping Company are investing in Fossil-Free Plastics https://t.co/7AtbDqztxm #plastics #methanol #mto #chemicals

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Is Sweden's Green Steel Transformation still on Track? Some news lately indicate that Swedish mining company @LKABgroup "has put the brake" on its green steel transformation. What exactly does that mean, and what is still going ahead? https://t.co/eDQgeEB1lR