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? Methane monitoring goes stratospheric #185

Climate Tech VC

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   In January, Longpath secured a $189m conditional US Department of Energy loan guarantee.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? It's time to hustle again, but now it's in order to combat the climate crisis and slash carbon emissions in half by about 2030. "We homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So CO2 emissions.

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — May 2024 

Greentown Labs

Funding Active Surfaces , a Go Build 2023 participant and ACCEL Year 1 alum that’s commercializing ultra-thin-film solar technology, raised a $5.6M CalWave Power Technologies , which is working to harness carbon-free power from ocean waves, was chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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A fat load of good? Sourcing feedstocks for aviation biofuels looks not-so-simple

Envirotec Magazine

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. Biodiesel production in the laboratory. What is SAF? Destined for a back seat?

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Government’s Net Zero Strategy is a major step forward, says CCC

Envirotec Magazine

Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. They are broadly aligned to those set out by the Climate Change Committee in its advice to Government on the Sixth Carbon Budget in December 2020. I applaud their ambition.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

Accelerator for low-carbon hydrogen solutions welcomes seven startups. LCHA received 88 applications from 18 countries, representing numerous innovations that are advancing low-carbon hydrogen production, enhancing hydrogen storage and distribution, and providing business model innovations for the management of hydrogen supply chains.