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Technology Trending: Mg-ion batteries, hydrogen innovation lab, landfill methane for Bitcoin mining

Smart Energy International

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Sicily hydrogen innovation lab. For the birds.

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So, What Exactly Is Long-Duration Energy Storage?

GreenTechMedia

Its allure has proven more durable than energy blockchain, and its commercialization is further along than super-buzzy green hydrogen. Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries.

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Can Bitcoin mining really support renewable energy?

The Verge: Energy

Photo by Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A new study finds that Bitcoin mining paired with green hydrogen could help speed up a transition to clean energy — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering strong evidence that the cryptocurrency is a big polluter. The authors call hydrogen and Bitcoin “energy carriers.”

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5 Emerging Energy Technologies to Watch Out for in 2020

GreenTechMedia

Emerging industries such as offshore wind and lithium-ion battery storage have gone from strength to strength. Erstwhile more novel technologies, meanwhile, such as energy blockchains or flow batteries, have been relatively quiet this year. Green hydrogen. In some respects, this is no bad thing.

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'We want to be guiding stars': Inside Polestar's quest to deliver a 'truly climate-neutral' electric car by 2030

Business Green

But as EV sales have begun to take off around the world, driven in part by more eco-minded consumers, so questions have increasingly been asked just how environmentally-friendly the supply chain, materials, construction, and use of battery powered cars really is.

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Meet Our Newest Startup Members

Greentown Labs

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! MANUFACTURING. ELECTRICITY.

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Greentown Houston Is Here—Meet Our 25+ Inaugural Startups

Greentown Labs

ClearValue deploys zero-net-carbon, sustainable, renewable, and resilient electrical generation and transportation power systems via combustion of in situ, sunlight-powered, bio-chemically formed, pure hydrogen and oxygen. Innovator Energy develops and deploys several breakthrough solutions in cooling, heating, and heat transfer.