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A new land for energy and data

By District Energy posted 01-10-2024 23:02

  

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European countries led by Denmark have plans to connect giant offshore wind farms to new artificial “energy islands” housing hydrogen projects and data centers.It's now near-universally accepted that the world needs to move swiftly to renewable energy - indeed, according to the UN, global emissions need to be reduced by almost half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Wind energy could be converted to hydrogen via electrolyzers; these could either be sited on the island itself, with the hydrogen piped back to shore, or on the mainland, where the excess heat from the process could be fed into district heating networks to heat homes.

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