Hanno Böck
@hanno.hboeck.de
Freelance Journalist. Industry Decarbonization, Climate, Energy, IT Security.
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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.🔌💡 🧵
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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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November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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...
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...
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.
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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.
🔌💡 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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.
🔌💡 🧵
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. 🔌💡
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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. 🔌💡
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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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October 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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...
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. 🔌💡
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industrydecarbonization.com/news/this-hy...
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.🔌💡 🧵
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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.🔌💡 🧵
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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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September 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
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...
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.
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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.
🔌💡 🧵
August 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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.
🔌💡 🧵
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...
Golem.de: IT-News für Profis
www.golem.de
July 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Warum es in Thüringen keine Methanol-Produktion aus dem CO2 einer Müllverbrennungsanlage geben wird: www.golem.de/news/geschei...
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
www.rosalux.de
July 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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
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...
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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June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Hanno Böck
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)
(also see: the seaweed guy)
It's tricky to decarbonise airplanes, but a plan to manufacture aviation fuel from canola looks set to take off.
Forget frying with it, it's time to fly with it
It's tricky to decarbonise airplanes, but a plan to manufacture aviation fuel from canola looks set to take off.
www.abc.net.au
June 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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)
(also see: the seaweed guy)
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...
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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June 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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...
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...
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And the quote is from here: (no cheating) www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
Norway abandons Mongstad carbon capture plans
The outgoing government in Norway buries much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.
www.bbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And the quote is from here: (no cheating) www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
Reposted by Hanno Böck
"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?
What year was this quote from?
May 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"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?
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...
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
YouTube video by Decarbonize Everything
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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...
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...
Imagine you want to produce E-Fuels⚡⛽ but the power company does not want to sell to you🔌💡
That appears to be what E-Fuels producers faced in Iceland🇮🇸. The country uses 100% renewable⚡. Yet, Iceland's Landsvirkjun does not want to sell to E-Fuels projects🧵
industrydecarbonization.com/news/iceland...
That appears to be what E-Fuels producers faced in Iceland🇮🇸. The country uses 100% renewable⚡. Yet, Iceland's Landsvirkjun does not want to sell to E-Fuels projects🧵
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Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy
Hydrogen and E-Fuels companies want to utilize Iceland's abundant renewable energy sources. But Iceland's largest energy company Landsvirkjun does not want to sell electricity to them. E-Fuels produce...
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May 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Imagine you want to produce E-Fuels⚡⛽ but the power company does not want to sell to you🔌💡
That appears to be what E-Fuels producers faced in Iceland🇮🇸. The country uses 100% renewable⚡. Yet, Iceland's Landsvirkjun does not want to sell to E-Fuels projects🧵
industrydecarbonization.com/news/iceland...
That appears to be what E-Fuels producers faced in Iceland🇮🇸. The country uses 100% renewable⚡. Yet, Iceland's Landsvirkjun does not want to sell to E-Fuels projects🧵
industrydecarbonization.com/news/iceland...
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It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
The BBC spoke to locals near a big English solar farm and found the panels “do not really bother them” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What is life like living the shadow of Ashby's solar farms? - BBC News
Residents of Ashby-de-la-Zouch offer mixed views on the fields of solar panels surrounding the town.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
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What happened to Linde's Hydrogen Electrolyzer in Leuna/Germany, & what mystery hydrogen powers a ferry in Norway? 🌱💧🚢🇳🇴
In the image, you can see a steam methane reformer. It turns fossil gas into hydrogen & a lot of CO2, which is how H2 is made today.🏭🔥🌏
industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-pow...
In the image, you can see a steam methane reformer. It turns fossil gas into hydrogen & a lot of CO2, which is how H2 is made today.🏭🔥🌏
industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-pow...
April 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What happened to Linde's Hydrogen Electrolyzer in Leuna/Germany, & what mystery hydrogen powers a ferry in Norway? 🌱💧🚢🇳🇴
In the image, you can see a steam methane reformer. It turns fossil gas into hydrogen & a lot of CO2, which is how H2 is made today.🏭🔥🌏
industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-pow...
In the image, you can see a steam methane reformer. It turns fossil gas into hydrogen & a lot of CO2, which is how H2 is made today.🏭🔥🌏
industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-pow...
The MF Hydra is Norway's Ship of the Year 2021. It is also the first and only ship powered by Liquefied Hydrogen (LH₂). And... I don't know where to start... 🚢
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen.
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen.
April 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The MF Hydra is Norway's Ship of the Year 2021. It is also the first and only ship powered by Liquefied Hydrogen (LH₂). And... I don't know where to start... 🚢
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen.
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen.
How did E-Methanol production progress in the past few years? ⚡🧪🧵
In 2022, I wrote an article about E-Methanol production methods for the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online. Well, if you follow me, you know I write a lot about E-Methanol, and follow those projects closely.
In 2022, I wrote an article about E-Methanol production methods for the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online. Well, if you follow me, you know I write a lot about E-Methanol, and follow those projects closely.
April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How did E-Methanol production progress in the past few years? ⚡🧪🧵
In 2022, I wrote an article about E-Methanol production methods for the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online. Well, if you follow me, you know I write a lot about E-Methanol, and follow those projects closely.
In 2022, I wrote an article about E-Methanol production methods for the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online. Well, if you follow me, you know I write a lot about E-Methanol, and follow those projects closely.
It's an unfortunate reality that many announced cleantech projects never get built — or much later than expected.
I am currently checking a few articles I wrote in 2022+23 for Fathom World, a shipping news site that is no longer online. I want to make sure those old articles stay accessible.🔌💡
🏭🌿🏗️⏳🧵
I am currently checking a few articles I wrote in 2022+23 for Fathom World, a shipping news site that is no longer online. I want to make sure those old articles stay accessible.🔌💡
🏭🌿🏗️⏳🧵
April 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's an unfortunate reality that many announced cleantech projects never get built — or much later than expected.
I am currently checking a few articles I wrote in 2022+23 for Fathom World, a shipping news site that is no longer online. I want to make sure those old articles stay accessible.🔌💡
🏭🌿🏗️⏳🧵
I am currently checking a few articles I wrote in 2022+23 for Fathom World, a shipping news site that is no longer online. I want to make sure those old articles stay accessible.🔌💡
🏭🌿🏗️⏳🧵
A fossil-free plastics plant could start production in a few years in Belgium - with a technology that is currently used to make plastics from coal. 🌿🧪🏭 #plastics #mto #chemicals #decarbonization 🔌💡
March 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A fossil-free plastics plant could start production in a few years in Belgium - with a technology that is currently used to make plastics from coal. 🌿🧪🏭 #plastics #mto #chemicals #decarbonization 🔌💡
In discussions about clean Hydrogen, there is a popular idea floating around, particularly in countries like Germany or Japan that import most of their fossil fuel energy. Instead of importing fossil fuels, we will import Hydrogen in the future from places where renewables are cheap. ⚡💧🚢🏭 🔌💡 🧵
March 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In discussions about clean Hydrogen, there is a popular idea floating around, particularly in countries like Germany or Japan that import most of their fossil fuel energy. Instead of importing fossil fuels, we will import Hydrogen in the future from places where renewables are cheap. ⚡💧🚢🏭 🔌💡 🧵
Last year, Danish wind energy giant Ørsted pulled the plug for the planned E-Methanol factory FlagshipONE in Sweden - despite the fact that the project had subsidies and investment promises, and a "final investment decision." Ørsted said it couldn't secure offtake agreements 🚢🛢️🔌💡🧵
February 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Last year, Danish wind energy giant Ørsted pulled the plug for the planned E-Methanol factory FlagshipONE in Sweden - despite the fact that the project had subsidies and investment promises, and a "final investment decision." Ørsted said it couldn't secure offtake agreements 🚢🛢️🔌💡🧵
Vor gut 2 Jahren wurde in Chile das Projekt Haru Oni für die Produktion von E-Fuels in Betrieb genommen. Es hat viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen & dazu beigetragen, die Idee von E-Fuels ⚡⛽ als Alternative zu Elektromobilität🔋 und alternativen Verkehrsmitteln🚲🚆 zu etablieren.🧵
February 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Vor gut 2 Jahren wurde in Chile das Projekt Haru Oni für die Produktion von E-Fuels in Betrieb genommen. Es hat viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen & dazu beigetragen, die Idee von E-Fuels ⚡⛽ als Alternative zu Elektromobilität🔋 und alternativen Verkehrsmitteln🚲🚆 zu etablieren.🧵
There was no Q&A after my #38C3 talk, but in the chat, someone asked an interesting question. I said in that Methanol is the simplest carbon-containing liquid, the person remarked that this would instead be formic acic + asked whether using formic acid instead of methanol would be interesting.
January 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There was no Q&A after my #38C3 talk, but in the chat, someone asked an interesting question. I said in that Methanol is the simplest carbon-containing liquid, the person remarked that this would instead be formic acic + asked whether using formic acid instead of methanol would be interesting.
Reminder: I'll be giving a talk about the role Green Methanol could play in the energy transition, at 12pm CET (that's in a bit less than an hour) #38C3 fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
Livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch
Livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch
Is Green Methanol the missing piece for the Energy Transition? 38C3
In an accelerating climate crisis, renewable energy and electrification are the most important tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, in sectors where electrification is infeasible or impo...
fahrplan.events.ccc.de
December 30, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Reminder: I'll be giving a talk about the role Green Methanol could play in the energy transition, at 12pm CET (that's in a bit less than an hour) #38C3 fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
Livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch
Livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch