Greentown Labs

AUGUST 23, 2023

FUNDING Carbon Upcycling raised $26M in Series A funding for its carbon-sequestration technology. Series A —led by Greentown partner bp ventures and with investments from Greentown partners Clean Energy Ventures and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries—for its green-hydrogen-producing electrolyzer technology. SnoFox Sciences closed a $4.5M

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 20, 2023

Advent Technologies opened an R&D facility in Charlestown, MA to develop and manufacture its fuel-cell and hydrogen tech. C2V Initiative Year 2 alum Carbon Upcycling Technologies received an investment from CRH—part of the initiative’s Carbontech Leadership Council —to launch its first commercial-scale facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

A group from the University of Nottingham say they have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make hydrogen production more sustainable. However, most hydrogen production methods rely on fossil fuel feedstock.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Two startups, Carbon Upcycling Technologies and Sky Baron, recently launched a line of such products. Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

They have invested heavily in the production of fuel-efficient vehicles with a strong focus on developing a vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell- the Honda Clarity. While Tesla continue to be the gold standard for sustainable motoring, Honda are showing remarkable commitment to green innovation at present.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And there are a number of new technologies — such as clean hydrogen for steel and carbon capture, utilization and storage for cement — just around the corner that could reduce the carbon footprint of these materials to almost zero. Cement and concrete can be made with lower-carbon fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

ZeroAvia - Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain for Aviation. EverGrain - 'Realising the Potential in Everything' Food Upcycling Project. Go-Ahead - Southampton Air Filtering Bus. NatWest Group & Octopus Energy - EV Partnership. UK Power Networks - TransPower Vehicle to Grid Projects. Wessex Water - Bio-CNG HGV Project.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Clean hydrogen Part of PitchBook’s 2024 Industrial Technology Outlook Advanced Ionics ’s electrolyzers use up to 50 percent less electricity per kilogram of hydrogen and work in an intermediate temperature range—above liquid water but below expensive, superheated steam.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 24, 2022

Elemental Recycling received an investment from Freestone for its technology that upcycles plastic and other organic waste material into high-quality graphite and hydrogen. Our alum Dexai Robotics , maker of the food-prep robot Alfred , raised nearly $6.7M.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

All that infrastructure, and the hydrogen fuel station, were grant-funded decades ago by the global loss-and-damage fund. It landed on the small island just as a sudden storm swirled up from the warm waters of the Pacific. All around, sturdy seawalls, floating solar arrays, and kelp-farming scaffolds break the waves and wind.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

The new cement was invented as part of the large multi-university UK FIRES programme, which aims to enable a rapid transition to zero emissions based on using today's technologies differently, rather than waiting for the new energy technologies of hydrogen and carbon storage. It comes amid increasing investment in greener cement R&D.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Its Low Carbon Solutions business plans to spend $17B on “lower-emissions” investments between 2022 and 2027, but the company is betting on clean hydrogen, ammonia, biofuels, and CCS rather than emissions-free electrons. One of the big problems facing electrofuels growth today is sourcing CO2.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A few weeks ago, ZeroAvia flew the world’s first flight of the world’s largest hydrogen electric aircraft. Stacy Flynn and the Evrnu team are upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners. Val Miftakov and his team at ZeroAvia are building a zero-emission future for aviation.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners. The company’s regenerative NuCycl technologies upcycle textile and apparel waste by dissolving cotton and regenerating the molecules into a new, even stronger fiber. Hydrogen-electric aviation. Evrnu | DEMONSTRATION TRACK.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Workshops for those that want to upcycle waste. Australian firm hails green hydrogen breakthrough. Australian researchers have this week announced a "giant leap" in improving the efficiency of electrolysers, which could drastically boost the competitiveness of green hydrogen. New Zealand halves public transport prices.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Co-Founder & Lead Engineer, Planetary Hydrogen; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Battochio hoped to become a CEO by age 26 — and he did just that, leveraging business aptitude with technical skills to co-found Planetary Hydrogen. It's kind of a long-lived dream." . Sarah Golden. Brock Battochio, 28.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

🧱 Carbon Upcycling Technologies , a Calgary, Canada-based company mineralizing CO2 into industrial byproducts, raised $26M in Series A funding from BDC Capital, Climate Investment, Strategic Investors, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, CRH Ventures, Cemez Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, and other investors.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

” —Sarah Golden Brock Battochio, 28 Co-Founder & Lead Engineer, Planetary Hydrogen; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada LinkedIn Brock Battochio originally aspired to play ice hockey competitively, and served as defenseman on the team at Carleton University in Ottawa. “It’s kind of a long-lived dream.”

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

🍎 Koa , a Zürich, Switzerland-based upcycled cocoa fruit products developer, raised $15M in Series B funding from Mirova, Zebra Impact, Mirabaud, and others. 27 countries signed the UAE Hydrogen Declaration of Intent endorsing a global hydrogen certification standard.  Weird…but we’re into it. 

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

And Tata Steel is selling Ford “green steel” made with hydrogen-based power. Timberland asked for your boots back for upcycling. Importantly, the heaviest industries made progress. CEMEX announced a new cement plant that will operate entirely on alternative fuels. Looking to 2023.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Diesel-to-electric conversions are helping to ease the electric truck bottleneck while contributing to the sparkling green economy of the future.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Upcycled chicken feathers could hold the key to new bio-based membranes for high performance hydrogen fuel cells.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 26, 2022

Carbon capture and upcycling is one of the avenues ArcelorMittal is pursuing to cut fossil fuel out of the steel making picture.

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