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By means of press releases, news articles, experts views and press lunches ECN informs journalists of the latest news within the field of energy technology. First contact for all media is ECN press officer Florentine de Maar. You will find her by phone +31 224 564 050 en 06-1279 8123 and by mail.
29.09.2008
Petten – The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) develops technology to produce Green Gas on a large scale. Green Gas possesses the same features as natural gas, but is made out of biomass. In the ECN biomass gasifier ‘MILENA’, non-eatable biomass such as timber, verge grass, demolition...[more]
29.09.2008
As a result of the Haber–Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, billions of people have been fed, millions have died in armed conflict and a cascade of environmental changes has been set in motion - suggests a feature article by scientists from four of the world’s...[more]
17.09.2008
In The Economist edition of September 6th the hydrogen-fuel cell car is dismissed as The Car of the Perpetual Future, having received too much government funding. All-electric cars or plug-in hybrids are much more promising, concludes The Economist. Frank de Bruijn, manager of the ECN-unit Hydrogen...[more]
