Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 30, 2024

The AVCHI Initiative is a multi-stakeholder, public-private partnership with the goal of transforming waste biogases into clean hydrogen to help fuel the growth of the local clean energy economy and provide energy and economic resilience in the Antelope Valley.   Michael Schmitz ReCarbon, Inc. +1

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Dragonfly Energy, maker of Battle Born Batteries, in collaboration with battery recycling pioneer Aqua Metals , has reported a significant advance in its quest for sustainable lithium-ion battery production. Source: Dragonfly Energy

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. He said the DGC will be used “to help generate a route for the livestock sector to become truly sustainable.”

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Food waste is both a social and environmental issue and by finding a way to fully utilize perfectly good food, insecure communities find relief and the environmental repercussions of food waste are avoided.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

EV battery recycler Aqua Metals has entered into a strategic partnership with South Korean battery materials company Yulho. Yulho will make a strategic equity investment of $5 million in Aqua Metals, and Aqua will grant Yulho a license to deploy its patented AquaRefining technology in South Korea.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

To help meet this challenge, a small start-up business in Finland, Sensmet, has developed an online monitoring technology that it says promises a step-change improvement in both the manufacturing and recycling of battery metals. High purity lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate is required for battery manufacture.

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Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Li-Cycle, the developer of a novel battery recycling system , has announced an agreement with Ultium Cells, a joint venture of GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle up to 100% of the scrap generated by battery cell manufacturing at Ultium’s Lordstown, Ohio mega-factory. When fully operational in 2022, the $2.3-billion

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APRIL 9, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards. ”

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Renew CO 2 offers cost-competitive, carbon-negative monoethylene glycol. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sports brand On says it is the first company in the footwear industry to use captured carbon emissions as a raw material. Swiss sports brand On has announced that it has created a shoe using carbon emissions as a raw material, making it the first company in the footwear industry to achieve the milestone.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ionic MT uses a patented continuous production process that enables low-impact, high-capacity operations. The company also uses chemical recycling techniques to transform waste into value-added by-products, which it says results in a substantially reduced carbon footprint compared to conventional EV battery materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rare earth magnet recycling project aims to develop materials for luxury automaker's electric and hybrid vehicle ranges. HyProMag investor Mkango Resources, a Canadian-listed rare earth mining company with a number of mines planned in Malawi, will also help fund the recycling research, according to the update. The £2.6m

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GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

Instead, complementing a plant-based diet with modest amounts of low-food chain animals such as forage fish, bivalves (mussels, oysters, clams and scallops) and insects has the lowest carbon, land and water footprint. They come in handy cans to avoid food waste — a particular problem with quickly spoiling seafood — and are easily recycled.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The green economy operates on low carbon power sources, resource efficiency, and social fairness and inclusivity. cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY? GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

GigaDac won $272K+ for its novel approach for achieving scale in direct-air carbon capture from the National Science Foundation. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. The integration is now live on Energy Toolbase’s Platform.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Recycling requires work. The act of wasting food when people don’t have enough to eat is a tragedy that dates back to the beginning of time, retold generation after generation by fear-mongering mothers hoping their kids will finish dinner. One way businesses with surplus food can reduce their carbon footprint is through food rescue.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The separation method, which uses carbon dioxide, water and food-grade citric acid, is the subject of a Sandia National Laboratories patent application. The extraction process is facilitated by using supercritical carbon dioxide solvent. Carbon sequestration also a possibility.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Renewable and recyclable bottles will be made by Pulpex using 100 per cent wood pulp. The prototype paper-based, renewable and recyclable bottle will be made from 100 per cent sustainably-sourced wood pulp. Packaging waste is an industrywide challenge that we must all do our part to address," said Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

But the British firm stands apart from most of its peers because it is one of the few operators in the world that creates its aggregates using captured CO2 and waste materials and is already today selling the resulting carbon removal credits to blue chip clients, including tech giant Microsoft.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A biodigester is a contained system in which feedstock (wastewater, food waste, manure, etc) is consumed by bacteria, breaking the feedstock down into smaller molecules and compounds, and often yielding useful products like semi-treated water and free electrons. What is a Biodigester? How Are Biodigesters Used and By Whom?

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries. Kanin Energy is partnering with Tallgrass to develop four waste-heat-to-power clean energy projects. Department of Energy’s Battery Recycling Prize.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE): a $57M contract for its first-of-kind, commercial-scale, lithium-hydroxide-manufacturing facility in Tonopah, NV, and a $20M contract to advance next-generation battery-recycling technologies. pre-seed round for its uniquely derived pure-carbon electrode energy storage medium technology.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Fervo Energy executed a PPA to provide 24/7 carbon-free geothermal electricity to 3 million customers in Southern California. Syzygy Plasmonics launched CarbonModel.com , an online tool that organizations can use to calculate the carbon intensity of hydrogen and levelized cost of production. Partnerships + Deployments.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Los Angeles-based company is committed to conscious and sustainable fashion, with some of its previous eco-minded sneakers made of materials like hemp and recycled mesh. This natural rubber comes from the latex sap of Hevea trees and is harvested on sustainably managed forests that help maintain the global balance of atmospheric carbon.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. Amogy is building a novel, portable, carbon-free energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 28, 2021

Footwear is a major source of post-consumer waste. Another daily-use product, coffee, also contributes to environmental waste to the tune of around 25 billion kilograms annually. The technology developed by the company results in a patented, high-tech footwear material that is used to make the certified vegan boots.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Endeavor Composites is pioneering high-performance, low-cost, and zero-waste composites to solve difficult manufacturing problems. MITO’s patented platform technology creates hybrid additives with unique attributes—and limitless possibilities. Endeavor Composites (Knoxville, TN, U.S.): MITO Materials Solutions (Indianapolis, IN, U.S.):

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Dr Akmez Nabeerasool, senior product manager at industrial water recycling specialist Arvia Technology , discusses advances in the post-treatment purification of water polluted by persistent traces of agrochemicals. This patented adsorbent media allows for targeted and continuous oxidation. Turning tides.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The competition was meant to demonstrate the most efficient means of CO2 conversion that would allow future inhabitants of the planet to manufacture products using Mars’ atmospheric carbon dioxide and water as resources. “We Air Company Images courtesy of Air Company.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Sweden’s Pledge to be Carbon-Neutral Despite uncertainties in global leadership, Sweden promised to honour the Paris Agreement made by the United Nations and cut all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. Meet one of our alumni startups Zemission, which has developed, tested, and patented a zero-emission solution for mobile use.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s usually one of the first objections cited by EV naysayers: batteries can’t or won’t be recycled, and they contain hazardous materials that will end up in landfills. In fact, no such sinister scenario is likely—most of the components of Li-ion batteries are valuable, and it’s quite feasible, technically and economically, to recycle them.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap. billion tons of plastic.

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