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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have converted low-grade PET plastic waste into BAETA – a solid material that captures CO₂ from flue gas and directly from air. The work, published in Science Advances, is funded by the VILLUM Power-to-X Accelerator and could lower the cost of captured carbon for e-fuels and CO₂-based chemicals.
Synhelion has been selected for the Produktives.NRW programme: EU-backed funding supports its commercial demonstration plant for renewable synthetic fuels in Jülich — the step that turns DAWN's proof of technology into bankable production.
Power-to-Food converts green hydrogen and captured CO₂ into protein via gas fermentation. Two years after the technology was profiled for Swiss readers, the picture is informative: Solar Foods reached commercial production in Finland and is launching in the US in early 2026, Econutri pivoted to pet food, and Arkeon filed for insolvency. The category is real, the economics are not yet settled.
Swiss hydrogen setbacks meet a first hydrogen passenger ship on Lake Lucerne — plus green hydrogen, ammonia and eSAF news from Australia, Morocco, France and the UK.
Cambridge's solar reactor makes hydrogen from plastic and biomass waste — now built simply and tested at square-metre scale outdoors. Promising science, still far from cheap hydrogen.
The SPIN editorial team is taking a summer break: this is our last post until 17 August. Meanwhile, save the date for the Power-to-X Congress Switzerland 2026 on 22 September in Bern.
Chile may reallocate land reserved for green hydrogen to data centres, China moves methanol 200 km through a pipeline, Japan puts hydrogen hybrid trains into passenger service — and Sinopec's Kuqa project reaches full electrolyser load at last. This week's global Power-to-X news.
Empa is developing an electrolysis process that turns recycled CO₂ into ethylene — a defossilised base chemical — in the EU-funded project REACT.
Zaffra wins the technology contract for a 2.4 GW e-fuels plant in Uzbekistan, Brussels pushes its RFNBO review to the autumn, Lhyfe signs a ten-year offtake deal with Messer — and the UK declines to ring-fence money for e-SAF. This week's global Power-to-X news.
Even great ideas now need a business case. The latest figures on the cost of climate change show why society must invest in defossilisation and Power-to-X.
