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Or even better Haggis, this - see last paragraph

Mainspring Energy announced what it called a breakthrough towards a resilient, zero-carbon electric grid, as its Linear Generator successfully completed tests to run on 100% hydrogen and 100% ammonia.

The California, US-based firm said, it is the first power generation technology to provide this level of fuel flexibility within a single product, significantly reducing customer investment risk in delivering low-cost electricity for both power grids and commercial and industrial uses.

In addition to hydrogen and ammonia, the Mainspring claims the generator can run on biogas, natural gas, and other widely available gaseous fuels, and can switch between fuels automatically with software-based control.

It is hoped the generator can be used to decarbonise back-up power generator for applications such as, large grids, microgrids, data centres, and more where constant back-up power is needed.

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Mainspring has said it intends to have the generator UL certified to run on the fuels and deliver it in 2023. H2 View understands the generator has already been deployed, and is being used by Fortune 500 companies, according to the company.

Shannon Miller, CEO and founder of Mainspring, said, “Clean fuels are essential to decarbonising the grid and supporting the rapid growth of solar and wind power. They provide all the advantages of fossil fuels – resilience, low-cost cross-seasonal storage, and ease of transport – without the carbon.

“We designed the fuel-flexible Linear Generator so that as clean fuels become increasingly available and cost-effective, organisations of all kinds can capitalise on them to run their operations, generate zero-carbon power, and meet their climate goals.”

Dr. Michael Webber, Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources at the University of Texas at Austin, said, “Fuels like zero-carbon hydrogen and zero-carbon ammonia have the potential to reshape the national energy landscape.

“Any device that could efficiently convert ammonia directly and cleanly to electricity would be a game-changer for the use of ammonia on the power grid to firm renewables, since it would avoid the energy loss associated with converting ammonia back to hydrogen to use as a fuel.”

I wonder if kevloveslosingmoney is still buying on the way down, what a muppet

You can count the number of useful posts this year on one hand but the eternal optimists still visit daily to have a moan about the derampers, will they join the telegram group and stay off here, no of course they won’t !

Thanks cb, yes I’m aware that I am and spend a lot less time on here than I used to, especially when the markets are like they are it’s better for your mental health to try and switch off and forget but easier said than done, still hopeful that the trials will go well, if AFC have truly listened to what customers want, we should finally get confirmation that we have a great product in the market and orders will come. Past lessons hopefully have been learnt and onwards and upwards from here.

It’s a group where are the HNW individuals from here who ‘know their stuff’ pat each other on the back to get away from all the rubbish on here….but also are still here telling everyone how great their other group is, you couldn’t make it up. If it’s so great why are they still here ?

Delay F C.

Every post on twitter & Linked In now attracts ridicule from investors, shows the general feeling from LTHs. Make or break time coming.

Let’s see if Bonnoccio can deliver this time, surely he can’t miss a target set 2 weeks into the future ?

ACCIONA Power Tower system undergoing final commissioning before deployment to Spain over the next fortnight

In the past Bond was accused of using phrases like delivery in the next few weeks, imminently etc where he couldn’t be held accountable, so he changed his tack to naming quarters or half years where he is now accountable so we can actually tell he’s missed set deadlines, anyone who thinks oh well what’s another month needs to remember that the rewards are huge and while Bond seems very relaxed about pushing out deliveries to later this year there will be many competitors seeing this as an opportunity to get in there before us, all those saying it’s ok would soon change their tune if a competitor announced a trial with one of our prospects in the next few days.

To find out whether Bond is a hero or Bonnoccio.

Old news even though posted today but possibly gives a bit more info ?
Kier and AFC Energy are today announcing a partnership that will see a clean Hydrogen power generator unit, utilising AFC Energy’s new Hybrid Fuel Cell (HFC) technology, being deployed at a Kier construction site in the South West.

The decision to lease AFC Energy’s system is driven not only by a desire to show immediate leadership in the decarbonisation of UK construction sites and improve air quality around urban construction sites but also as a consequence of rising and uncertain diesel costs with geopolitical events impacting fossil fuel prices across the world.

AFC Energy has agreed to source and supply Hydrogen to Kier on commercial terms with support provided to Kier to operate the system daily. The agreement also sets an opportunity for the two companies to explore a longer-term commercial partnership across multiple UK sites and potentially deploy additional fuel cell systems in 2023.

This deployment of AFC Energy’s next-generation HFC system continues to highlight the growing and immediate need for construction and temporary power operators to displace diesel generators with zero-emission power systems as part of a portfolio approach to the industry’s decarbonisation.

Chris Lilley, health, safety, wellbeing and sustainability director at Kier Group, said, “This upcoming trial further demonstrates our commitment to sustainability and finding innovative solutions that will reduce our carbon footprint and help our clients and customers deliver against their targets too.”

Adam Bond, Chief Executive Officer at AFC Energy, said, “Contractors and plant hire businesses are under increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse emissions and improve air quality; we are confident that our hydrogen fuel cells will play an important role in delivering a Net Zero UK construction industry.”

Nick, what a sensible answer, far more believable than Haggis’ 1 in 1 conversion ! He needs calling out and has shown himself up big time yet again, and 3 other plums agreed with him. I’ve managed a pipeline selling leading edge tech to the o&g industry and 1 in 5 was roughly our conversion ratio.

So saying 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 or even 1 in 2 are all likely to be wrong in AFC's case,

Best laugh I’ve had in ages, not only that but at least 2 other con men agree with him. So AFC are going to convert 49 out of the 50 leads, brilliant !

Flabbergasted ! I hope Bond has been all over this.

Greg Jackson, chief executive and founder of Octopus Energy said traditionally at times when demand was high, National Grid would pay large companies to reduce their usage, or pay for "diesel generators to switch on to produce electricity".
He said the new plan, which he hopes will be in place this winter, wasn't "life changing stuff", but would offer households a chance to get paid if they reduced demand on the network.

Yes this has happened more than once over the years, there’s been several misses but let’s see if we’ve got it right this time, having ABB on board and the big construction companies is very different from past failures

That was exactly my first thought too Ogggs

It’s there under the news section.

Sturm I 100% agree with your sentiment however there are very few councils that share this view and will always go for the cheapest option, things are changing slowly and they need to move much faster, more and more of our planet is becoming uninhabitable either because of extreme heat, or coastal erosion, fires, floods etc yet as long as it doesn’t affect politicians living in their Mayfair penthouses they do nothing.

Sturm, not sure why everyone is always so quick to throw insults, my point is yes diesel generators are more expensive to run as the cost of diesel is now at an all time high but my question remains unanswered is it more or less expensive to run than our fuel cell ? Simple question really.

Is our fuel cell cheaper to run then ? First thing they will ask !

Ok, fair point, at least you gave a sensible answer ! We all have our fingers crossed for a successful trial over the next few weeks.