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Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’
<p>Mitico thinks that it has found a way to slash the cost of carbon capture using a simple salt that’s been tweaked for industrial duty.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 253 min read
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Cambium is building an AI that helps turn waste wood into usable lumber
<p>Cambium uses data on timber and lumber transactions in a bid to make salvage wood appealing to a range of companies.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 243 min read
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The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture
<p>Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 213 min read
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Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site
<p>Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to commit to the industry. For example, X-Energy raised $700 million this month, and Paris-based Newcleo raised $151 million last year, and one would be […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 203 min read
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ElectronX is building a market for electricity trading
<p>ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 192 min read
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Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears
<p>The layoffs slashed between 13% to 20% of the four Power Marketing Administrations’ workforces.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 181 min read
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy
<p>A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 182 min read
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Global electricity demand expected to grow 4% annually through 2027
<p>Meeting that demand will require adding more generating capacity than all of Japan — every year. </p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 141 min read
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Data center tweaks could unlock 76 GW of new power capacity in the US
<p>A new study argues that data centers could be ideal demand-response participants because they have the potential to be flexible.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 133 min read
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Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team steers toward nature-based carbon credits
<p>The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team is buying 5,500 metric tons worth of carbon credits from Chestnut Carbon.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 131 min read
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Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests
<p>The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 122 min read
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ChatGPT may not be as power-hungry as once assumed
<p>ChatGPT, OpenAI’s chatbot platform, may not be as power-hungry as once assumed. But its appetite largely depends on how ChatGPT is being used and the AI models that are answering the queries, according to a new study. A recent analysis by Epoch AI, a nonprofit AI research institute, attempted to calculate how much energy a […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 114 min read
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Microsoft powers AI ambitions with 400 MW solar purchase
<p>Microsoft has added another 389 megawatts of renewable power to its portfolio as the tech giant scrambles to meet the power demands required to match its AI ambitions. The additional renewable power spans three solar projects developed by EDP Renewables North America — two in southern Illinois and one outside Austin, Texas. Microsoft is buying […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 112 min read
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Mast Reforestation hatched a plan to restore wildfire-ravaged forests. Investors took notice.
<p>Mast enables reforestation without landowners needing to wait decades to harvest timber or claim carbon credits.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 113 min read
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Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round
<p>X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups to have benefitted from the AI-driven data center boom.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 72 min read
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Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm
<p>A group of more than 100 organizations has published an open letter calling on the AI industry and regulators to mitigate the tech’s harmful environmental impacts just days before leading industry CEOs, heads of state, academics, and nonprofits descend on Paris for a major AI conference. The letter, which bears the signatures of prominent advocacy […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 63 min read
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Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America
<p>A wave of automakers and battery makers — foreign and domestic — have pledged to produce North American–made batteries before 2030. </p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 615 min read
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Presto is building Stripe for EV charging
<p>Presto is helping connect fleets and charging networks so drivers can find working chargers quickly.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 63 min read
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First lab-grown meat treats go on sale in the UK — for dogs
<p>Cultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens to be a major investor in Meatly, the startup producing the meat ingredient contained in dog food brand The Pack’s Chick Bites, as the slaughter-free, low-carbon treats are billed. (Other ingredients in the snacks […]</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 61 min read
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Modern Synthesis is making compostable materials that last a lifetime
<p>Modern Synthesis’s fibers can be manipulated in ways that simple plant fibers cannot.</p>
Rahul Patil
Feb 53 min read
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