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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: American Battery Metals Corporation

Greentown Labs

There’s a huge opportunity—and need—for better lithium-ion battery recycling. Less than three percent of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, and the few facilities that do recycle these batteries can only recover a handful of elements, according to Ryan Melsert, CTO of American Battery Metals Corporation. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Labs and Schneider Electric Announce Bold Ideas 2020 Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Four startups from North America will participate in the energy storage accelerator program. Salient Energy , based in Nova Scotia, makes a unique zinc-ion battery with a water-based chemistry that is cheaper, safer, and longer-lasting than lithium-ion batteries. Somerville, Mass., About Greentown Labs.

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What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

GreenTechMedia

A few states that wanted to incubate storage industries of their own proved that sharp policy really can create new markets in relatively short periods of time. All the headlines made it possible to forget that the scientific pioneers of lithium-ion batteries won the Nobel freakin Prize this Fall.

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October 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Hertz & Tesla | Breakthrough Energy Fellows | Portfolio Company…

Clean Energy Trust

Ben and his co-authors make this point in the conclusion of the paper: “Indeed, if cleantech entrepreneurs can use shared resources from federally funded research centers, university labs, private research institutes, or incubators, they can avoid the VC countdown clock to exit.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

You need to be accurate in the design of the system and for that you need to invest in end-to-end modeling capabilities, linking the building heating and cooling demand, the heat pump technical room, the underground borehole heat exchanger, and the management of the whole with a good digital energy management system.