Hanno Böck
@hanno.hboeck.de
Freelance Journalist. Industry Decarbonization, Climate, Energy, IT Security. newsletter: https://industrydecarbonization.com/ web: https://hboeck.de/
Plastic Energy, one of the most promising chemical recycling🧪♻️ startups, is in financial peril💶 Plastic pyrolysis is a technology that promises to recycle plastic waste🗑️ too dirty or mixed to be recycled otherwise. It's also a controversial technology with a history littered with failures.🔌💡 🧵
Chemical Recycling, Pyrolysis, and the downfall of Plastic Energy
The chemical industry promised that favorable policy treatment of chemical recycling would enable investments in more circularity and alternative feedstocks. However, one of the most promising compani...
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One of the largest Green Methanol projects outside China has been cancelled 🌿🧪 The Beaver Lake Renewable Energy project was supposed to be a large-scale Biomethanol plant in Louisiana/USA. Plans were to do forest residue🌳🪵 gasification + combine with CDR sungasrenewables.com/sungas-annou... 🔌💡 🧵
SunGas Announces Cessation of Beaver Lake Biofuels Project - SunGas Renewables
Carbon Direct & C2X advance Beaver Lake Biofuels in Louisiana, producing biofuel and CDR credits from forestry byproducts.
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I have to make a confession: I no longer think E-Methanol is a good idea ⚡⚗️ I am not saying this lightly. But it's hard to argue with thermodynamics, & making energy-rich molecules from nothing but CO₂, water🌊, and electricity⚡ faces some hard truths 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/news/should-... 🧵
Should we give up on E-Methanol and CO₂ utilization?
Liquid Wind, a Swedish developer of E-Methanol projects, filed for bankruptcy. While Green Methanol is an important climate solution, is it time to ask whether making it from nothing but CO₂, Water, a...
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"Secret bidder" in Danish CCS tender confirmed 🤫💨🏭🇩🇰 Denmark currently runs a tender process for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects. In the latest round, 9 out of 10 preselected projects had announced their withdrawal from the process, with only the cement plant🪨🏭 Aalborg Portland left.🔌💡 🧵
China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️ Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴 In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳 industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-chi... 🔌💡 🧵
Why China Is Winning the Green Methanol Race
Methanol made from sustainable feedstocks is a key technology for climate-neutral shipping, aviation, and fossil-free chemicals. Chinese companies are already building industrial production facilities...
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What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰? In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a rollout of CCS technology. 🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/denmark...
Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay
In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be learn...
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A Climate Success Story🎉 without a Happy End🙁? This chart📉 shows something we would like to see more often: emissions are going down rapidly. Those are emissions of N₂O from the production of a chemical🧪—Caprolactam—used to make certain plastics&synthetic fibers. 🔌💡 🧵
Was there a massive leak of a dangerous greenhouse gas in Iceland🇮🇸 in 2011-or was it a data📈 reporting error? Emission databases show that the Norðurál aluminium factory🏭 released 60 tons of SF₆ in 2011 — but no such emissions in any other year. 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/news/errors-... 🧵
Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when havin...
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Thanks, @hanno.hboeck.de for a stunning investigation into major greenhouse gas reporting errors! Was a pleasure to translate your talk. #c3lingo
Hanno Böck@hanno.hboeck.de · 7mo agoThe two curves here should be the same. Obviously, they are not. If you are at #39c3 and want to learn about the unusual things I found in Greenhouse Gas Emission Databases, come to stage One at 11h fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202... There's a livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/one
The two curves here should be the same. Obviously, they are not. If you are at #39c3 and want to learn about the unusual things I found in Greenhouse Gas Emission Databases, come to stage One at 11h fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202... There's a livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/one
The article that highlighted a powerful greenhouse gas in Nike shoes in 1992 🌍👟 I recently wrote about high SF6 emissions from a factory in Germany. SF6 is the most powerful known greenhouse gas, and I also dug a bit into its history. Until 2006, Nike used SF6 in its shoes. /thread 🔌💡 🧵
The Worst Greenhouse Gas on Planet Earth: #SF6 💨🟡🌍🔥 Scientists have identified a factory in Germany emitting far more of the world's most damaging greenhouse gas than officially reported. A short video presentation 🎥 🔌💡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJs...
The Worst Greenhouse Gas on Planet Earth #SF6
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It's the worst known greenhouse gas, and a factory in Southern Germany emits a lot of it 🌍🏡💨🏭 Sulfur Hexafluoride or SF6 is a gas that has been used in Nike shoes (until 2006), Magnesium production, soundproof windows, and electric switchgear. 🔌💡 /thread 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/super-e...
Super-Emitter of the most Damaging Greenhouse Gas found in Germany
Through atmospheric measurements, scientists have identified a chemical factory operated by Solvay in Southern Germany as the source of massive amounts of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF₆) emissions. Being 24...
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In collaboration with Belgian journalist Jelle De Mey, I wrote about massive SF6 emissions from a Solvay factory in Southern Germany for @apache.be apache.be/2025/12/11/b...
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De chemische fabriek van Solvay in Duitsland stoot jaarlijks 30 ton SF6 uit, het sterkste broeikasgas dat we kennen: 500x meer dan wat het bedrijf rapporteert. De overheid beveelt het Belgische bedrijf om de uitstoot te doen dalen, maar die eis vecht Solvay nu aan. apache.be/2025/12/11/b...
Belgisch bedrijf lekt ‘superbroeikasgas’ in Duitsland
De fabriek van Solvay in Zuid-Duitsland stoot jaarlijks ongeveer dertig ton SF6 uit.
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The UNFCCC makes it needlessly difficult to download emission data📊📈 The UNFCCC🇺🇳 is most famously known for being the organizer of the climate conferences (COPs). However, they also play an important role in collecting and managing emission data. 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-is-... 🧵
Why is it needlessly difficult to access UNFCCC Emission Data?
Due to international climate agreements, countries report annual data about their greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC. However, downloading and using that data is a lot more difficult than it shoul...
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Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution? Gasification of waste🗑️ and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make circular+renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-ener...
Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?
Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in Canad...
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CCS does not look like you may think💨🏭 Carbon Capture and Storage is certainly one of the more controversial technologies to mitigate climate change. When I observe discussions about it, I am often frustrated. 🔌💡 🧵
A new idea about how to make clean Hydrogen that fits into an existing industry? ✨🌱💧 Clean Hydrogen🌱💧 will be more difficult than we might've hoped, but we need it. Just decarbonizing the fossil🦖 Hydrogen industry is a massive undertaking. 🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/this-hy...
This Hydrogen has no Color
Peregrine Hydrogen has an unusual idea for making clean Hydrogen, one that it says fits into existing industrial processes. One of the world's largest Phosphate mining companies is interested.
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I was recently asked where I would see useful applications of CCS. My answer was: Cement🧱🪨 and Biomethane🐄🌱🏭 Most won't be surprised that I said Cement. Yet, Biomethane is not what people usually have in mind. But bear with me, it makes a lot of sense.🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/you-wan...
You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane
Carbon capture technology is often associated with ideas of capturing CO₂ from power plants or industrial facilities like cement plants. Biomethane upgraders provide CO₂ that is easy to capture and le...
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What's going on with ArcelorMittal's steel decarbonization projects Steelanol and Torero in Belgium? 🔩🔗🏭 Recently, several Belgian publications reported that ArcelorMittal may shutdown the Steelanol plant at its site in Ghent. Steelanol converts steel mill off-gases into Ethanol. 🔌💡 🧵
Warum es in Thüringen keine Methanol-Produktion aus dem CO2 einer Müllverbrennungsanlage geben wird: www.golem.de/news/geschei...
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Warum ich Gaskraftwerke mit CCS für extrem unrealistisch halte - u.A: geringe CO2-Konzentration, langfristig durch EE-Ausbau immer unwirtschaftlicher www.rosalux.de/news/id/5359... @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
CCS: Der ungedeckte Scheck der fossilen Energielobby - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Warum Gaskraftwerke mit Kohlendioxid-Abscheidung unrealistisch sind
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We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥 Waste incinerators are an enormous source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy is common, their emissions are higher than those of cement 🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/just-st...
Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carb...
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A huge proportion of climate solutions journalism is focused entirely on 'we promise this can be fixed without you having to change anything', and they'll accept wild, absurd and almost fraudulently misleading greenwashing uncritically so that message can be preserved (also see: the seaweed guy)
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · last yr.It's tricky to decarbonise airplanes, but a plan to manufacture aviation fuel from canola looks set to take off.
Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡ In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche & HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol + small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🔌💡 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/whats-u...
What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with p...
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"At both the national and international level, the development of technologies to capture and store CO2 has taken longer, been more difficult and more costly than expected," says [politician]. What year was this quote from?
Do you need Hydrogen to power a small ship🚢 covering a distance of 5 kilometers? No. It can easily be done with batteries🔋 Yet the MF Hydra in 🇳🇴 runs on LH2💧, transported🚚 more than 1,300km from🇩🇪 Where and how is that Hydrogen produced? Unclear. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhzN...
This Hydrogen Ferry makes no sense
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