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10/04/2024
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SUPPORTS HYDROGEN The European Community intends to make a definitive effort for the deployment of hydrogen technology with a comprehensive action plan called IPCEI Hydrogen. It targets "innovation, demonstration and deployment of hydrogen technology" in the EC. It consists of four clusters of projects covering the entire hydrogen value chain: production, import, transport and end-use. The four clusters (waves) are: Hy2Tech, Hy2Use, Hy2Infra and Hy2Move. The first two were launched already in 2022 and the second two will be officially communicated in 2023 and 2024. Hy2Tech

22/03/2024
A PROPOSAL FROM THE U.S. OFFICE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY. SMR (Small Modular Reactor) reactors are frequently mentioned in these NEWS items, although, except in China, where the first of them has been commissioned (https://www.revistadyna.com/noticias-de-ingenieria/nuclear-de-fision-unidades-grandes-o-pequenas-modulares), they are still only design projects or prototypes, more or less in their infancy. But the reality is that there is a favourable climate for the advancement of this technology.

13/03/2024
CO2 EMITTED CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN 2023, ALBEIT AT A LOWER INTENSITY According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), despite the growing demand for electricity, the expansion of solar photovoltaic and wind power generation, the maintenance of nuclear power and a growing fleet of electric vehicles, the increase in CO2 emissions in 2023 will be less pronounced than in 2022, when we were coming out of the pandemic.

13/02/2024
COLOURS OF HYDROGEN For the information of our readers, we take a look at the colours that in different texts usually appear as an attribute of the hydrogen that is produced or used.

25/01/2024
UNITED KINGDOM PRESENTS ITS NUCLEAR PLAN AS THE BASIS FOR COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE Despite being considered one of the most determined countries in off-shore wind power generation, taking advantage of the characteristics of its North Sea coastline, the current UK government has officially proclaimed through its current premier that it will rely on nuclear power to support its total decarbonisation by 2050. This would mean quadrupling the power of installed units compared to the current situation.

17/01/2024
SOLVING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ACTUAL USE OF HYDROGEN It is a widely shared opinion that the clearest aspect of obtaining hydrogen, in its "green" form, as a massive energy vector (storage or direct use) is through electrolysis, using electricity from renewable sources as the basic method. Its energy yield, depending on the method of application of this hydrogen, combustion or fuel cell, can be between 70 and 40%.

21/12/2023
COP28 AGREEMENT MARKS 'BEGINNING OF THE END' OF THE FOSSIL FUEL ERA This is the title of the official COP28 website's summary of the agreements reached at the recently concluded summit, adding that this will be done by "laying the foundations for a rapid, just and equitable transition, backed by deep emission reductions and increased financing".

11/12/2023
MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IS APPROACHING This is the title of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) global study on the evolution that is expected to be faced by the world's major consortiums dedicated to the detection, extraction, transport, refining and marketing of products obtained from this branch of fossil, liquid or gaseous fuels.

27/11/2023
A NEW DESIGN FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES The vast world of wind turbines has had a large number of designs throughout its history, but the current three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine has been stabilised by the major manufacturers.

15/11/2023
WIND GENERATOR INDUSTRY IN CRISIS? The use of wind as a source of mechanical energy dates back to the beginnings of human civilisation: sails for ships, rotating blades for windmills and hydraulic pumps were perfected through centuries of development. The first turbine used to produce electricity dates back to 1887 in Scotland, when Prof. James Blyth of Anderson's College, Glasgow (now Strathclyde University) installed a traditional one of the time to charge accumulators to provide light for his country house.