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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. Now with funding of $4.3

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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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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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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

The ensuing rush for lithium, cobalt, nickel and other materials to feed the growing demand for battery cars has in led to pollution and environmental damage , as well as political disputes between mining prospectors and local populations and in some instances allegations of human rights abuses.

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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. Footprint is a web-based enterprise software solution for climate education and action. Transportation.

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Meet Our Newest Startup Members

Greentown Labs

Black Mountain Metals is a global battery metals mining company, specifically focused on sustainable nickel and copper mining for lithium-ion battery cathodes. ULTROGEN has a proprietary, patent-pending nanotechnology that increases the production of green hydrogen in alkaline electrolyzers by 50 times at 90 percent lower CAPEX.