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Turnover Labs is helping chemical plants to reuse their waste CO2
<p>Turnover Labs was born out of Marissa Beatty’s doctoral research into improving the durability of electrolyzers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 22, 20243 min read
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Turnover Labs is helping chemical plants to reuse their waste CO2
<p>Turnover Labs was born out of Marissa Beatty’s doctoral research into improving the durability of electrolyzers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 22, 20243 min read
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Former watch trader is now building the AWS of grid storage, Terralayr
<p>The startup’s technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are sold off to various customers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 18, 20243 min read
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Former watch trader is now building the AWS of grid storage, Terralayr
<p>The startup’s technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are sold off to various customers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 18, 20243 min read
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GM partners with startup Forge Nano to improve EV battery life, performance, and safety
<p>General Motors is working with Forge Nano, a materials science startup, to find new ways to enhance the performance and lifetime of electric vehicle battery cells. The automaker’s investment arm, GM Ventures, on Wednesday injected $10 million into Forge Nano, which is developing a thin coating the startup says will help improve safety and increase […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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GM partners with startup Forge Nano to improve EV battery life, performance, and safety
<p>General Motors is working with Forge Nano, a materials science startup, to find new ways to enhance the performance and lifetime of electric vehicle battery cells. The automaker’s investment arm, GM Ventures, on Wednesday injected $10 million into Forge Nano, which is developing a thin coating the startup says will help improve safety and increase […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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​​Amazon jumps on nuclear power bandwagon by investing in X-energy and promising small reactors
<p>The company revealed three deals, including an investment in a fission startup and two development agreements to add nuclear power to the grid.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Treehouse uses AI to help electricians install tech like EV chargers and heat pumps more cheaply
<p>The startup seeks to reduce inefficiencies for electricians, including from site visits while quoting jobs.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Treehouse uses AI to help electricians install tech like EV chargers and heat pumps more cheaply
<p>The startup seeks to reduce inefficiencies for electricians, including from site visits while quoting jobs.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Kenya’s Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air
<p>As calls for urgent climate action persist, technologies to help remove the heat-trapping greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are also emerging globally. In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup, is leading the efforts. Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Kenya’s Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air
<p>As calls for urgent climate action persist, technologies to help remove the heat-trapping greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are also emerging globally. In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup, is leading the efforts. Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy
<p>Meet Storio, a French startup that’s focused on providing smart energy storage for commercial and industrial customers. Founded in 2023, the startup raised a €5 million seed round earlier this year (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) and has signed its first client. Storio believes solar panels have a bright future. But the company […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Google signed a deal to power data centers with nuclear micro-reactors from Kairos — but the 2030 timeline is very optimistic
<p>With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Google signed a deal to power data centers with nuclear micro-reactors from Kairos — but the 2030 timeline is very optimistic
<p>With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes
<p>To cut direct air capture’s costs, the startup has developed a material that, in a two-step process, absorbs carbon dioxide and transforms it into another compound.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes
<p>To cut direct air capture’s costs, the startup has developed a material that, in a two-step process, absorbs carbon dioxide and transforms it into another compound.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
<p>The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking to make data centers more […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 13, 20245 min read
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Hit by hurricanes? FCC says you qualify for internet and mobile service subsidies
<p>As hurricanes batter the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, many people’s livelihoods are on hold and they’re struggling to make ends meet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just decided that anyone affected by a natural disaster can get a break on broadband and mobile service; it’s not much, but every little bit […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 11, 20242 min read
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Scope3 starts tracking the carbon footprint of AI
<p>The startup, which already monitors the climate impact of digital advertising, is expanding to include artificial intelligence.</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 10, 20243 min read
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BaCta is using engineered bacteria to grow natural rubber and slash CO2 emissions
<p>The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’s not every day you come across a startup that’s using genetic engineering to produce natural rubber — a substance that’s challenging to reproduce in a lab because of how long its polymer is. Paris-based baCta has a proof […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Oct 10, 20244 min read
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