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The St James Gate brewery in the Irish capital will be transformed into an urban district
Not only does it make profits, but it also corrects delinquent behaviour
The country is keen on doing its part to ensure technological independency for the EU
The country may run out of this common frozen product before the end of the summer
That’s one area that still hasn’t been directly affected by sanctions but as discontent with ongoing military aggression grows, this might change
Some of these feature entire tanks – objects that have become too unsavoury to honour in light of the current circumstances
An annual ranking shows a wealth of crises threatening local financial stability
According to Eurostat data, countries that spend less than the EU average, have grown their budgets the most in the last 10 years
This year, authorities will be boosting their efforts to get people familiar with different sides of the water body
The country is keen on doing its part to ensure technological independency for the EU
The country may run out of this common frozen product before the end of the summer
The authorities are also preparing a contingency plan with energy-saving measures to be presented at the end of September
Two lines will run until mid-December in order to find out whether that can solve issues with public transit scarcity in the countryside
Preliminary data for the effects of the discount ticket could pull the breaks on expanding the scheme in the future
Some of these feature entire tanks – objects that have become too unsavoury to honour in light of the current circumstances
In fact, the measure will extend to the whole region of Catalonia as this type of transportation is deemed to be unsafe
The building is adorned with murals by the Urban Creatures street art collective
This year, authorities will be boosting their efforts to get people familiar with different sides of the water body
The building is adorned with murals by the Urban Creatures street art collective
Around 8 million euros of state funding will help academic institutions to create a collaborative city-wide digital network
According to experts, this is because many women do most of the unpaid work like taking care of relatives and raising children
Paramedics on wheels have the ability to provide more mobile, flexible and rapid healthcare services
The port of Antwerp already has installations that can produce renewable energy on site
The facility will draw power from nearby solar and wind installations, but is that power better spent elsewhere?
Yesterday, authorities in the Antwerp-Bruges port, in Belgium, announced that the American company Plug Power will invest 300 million euros to build a green hydrogen facility there. The deal was signed during a Belgian trade mission to the US. The new facility will be constructed on the former General Motors site in the port of Antwerp.
The H2 plant will draw renewable energy from nearby solar panels and wind turbines in combination with purchased green electricity. The finish date has been set for 2025, and the plant is expected to produce 12,500 tons of hydrogen or the rough equivalent of 100 megawatts.
Many hail green hydrogen as a sort of miracle power source, which can be a perfect plug for the massive logistical issue that an overreliance on renewable energy can lead to. The main issue with renewable power is that the power output it generates is unreliable and fluctuates significantly.
Simply put, solar cells do not produce power at night or on cloudy days. It is a similar story with wind turbines, although offshore installations mitigate that effect to some degree. On top of that, renewables see their peak output during the day when energy consumption is at its lowest.
So in order to maintain a stable energy grid with a near constant flow of energy, producers need a way to quickly increase or decrease outputs – a sort of buffer source. This is where natural gas comes in since it offers this flexibility.
However, it comes with strings attached. One is that the main exporter of natural gas to the EU is Russia. Consequently, since the start of the war in Ukraine, the overreliance on a single big exporter has been revealed to be a significant strategic flaw.
The other is that natural gas, despite being a relatively CO2-light emitter, is still a fossil fuel and its contribution to pollution and global warming is nothing to scoff at.
Green hydrogen seemingly solves all these issues, as it is a substitute for natural gas, yet, it is produced through renewable energy and when used, it emits water.
Although many praise the promise of green hydrogen, according to some experts, the technology offers more than it can deliver. In a recent report by VRT, Thijs Van de Graaf, professor of international energy politics at the University of Ghent explained that producing hydrogen could end up just wasting renewable electricity.
As he put it, when converting wind energy into green hydrogen, 30% of that output is lost. Then, when that hydrogen is converted back into electricity, there are further losses. All in all, he said, this whole process causes around 60% losses on the initial output.
He finished by pointing out that using electricity to produce electricity will always be inefficient, so feeding renewables directly into the grid and lessening our current fossil fuel dependency would be much better.
At the same time, however, physicist Alexandra Lybaert explained that using surplus energy from solar and wind could be pumped into producing hydrogen, especially since daytime consumption is so low. In this way, the hydrogen production cycle would become a sort of battery, that can release stored capacities over time and when they are needed.
That’s one area that still hasn’t been directly affected by sanctions but as discontent with ongoing military aggression grows, this might change
The country is keen on doing its part to ensure technological independency for the EU
The country may run out of this common frozen product before the end of the summer
This year, authorities will be boosting their efforts to get people familiar with different sides of the water body
The country is keen on doing its part to ensure technological independency for the EU
Around 8 million euros of state funding will help academic institutions to create a collaborative city-wide digital network
It was high time to do something about the new pollution scourge of our era
Two lines will run until mid-December in order to find out whether that can solve issues with public transit scarcity in the countryside
The country may run out of this common frozen product before the end of the summer
The building is adorned with murals by the Urban Creatures street art collective
This year, authorities will be boosting their efforts to get people familiar with different sides of the water body
That’s one area that still hasn’t been directly affected by sanctions but as discontent with ongoing military aggression grows, this might change
These will be spread across 11 EU countries and will serve to support the EU Missions
The European Commission has accepted to develop the idea
An interview about AYR, one of the 2021 New European Bauhaus Prize winners
A conversation with the President of the European Committee of the Regions, about energy, climate change and the underrated importance of cohesion policy
Interview with Herald Ruijters, Director, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission
A conversation with the Mayor of Matosinhos, Portugal’s first UN Resilience Hub
