Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GreenLIB is pioneering a sustainable future by transforming battery waste into profitable, closed-loop solutions within the global lithium-ion battery market. Capwell is a hard tech, climate-focused company dedicated to reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry by collecting and destroying all surface-level methane emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“If you look across storage [technologies such as] lithium-ion and pumped hydro, there are few commercial projects with a duration of more than 12 hours,” he said. For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Syzygy Plasmonics is partnering with nonprofit research institute RTI International to demonstrate sustainable fuel production from CO2 and methane—a project sponsored by Greentown partners Equinor Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Southern Company also won’t include in its zero-carbon metrics the carbon emissions generated by customers of its natural gas distribution business burning the fuel it supplies them, although it will move to reduce methane leakage and help customers use the fuel more efficiently.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

Also in the podcast, the BusinessGreen team rounds up all the latest exciting developments in the world of clean tech and green innovative thinking, including methane-busting cattle feed, the burgeoning lithium mining and geothermal energy industry in Cornwall, and bioplastic vinyl records for eco-friendly music fans.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. It’s also terrible for the climate. Others warm it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But his wife began experiencing nausea and skin blotches, and testing showed that the Ely’s water was contaminated with methane, according to the grand jury investigation. A 2016 federal report confirmed that the water was unsafe to drink, showing worrying levels of chemicals such as arsenic and lithium, as well methane, metals, and salts.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 17, 2020

We are also pleased to see $750 million dedicated to methane-reducing initiatives, which are key to reducing carbon pollution from the oil and gas sector. Diversification in the oil patch can be done in ways that leverage its core competencies—like drilling for geothermal—toward new products, from carbon fibre to lithium to hydrogen.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China has also contributed to price declines in wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. China is also an unparalleled world leader in electric buses.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The recipients won out from a list of over 100 applicants for funding and represent a cross-section of innovations, ranging from renewable energy storage and electricity grid developments to methane capture and deposition technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

When a lithium-ion battery reaches a critical temperature, the liquid electrolyte inside the battery can vaporize and release toxic, flammable gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, and propylene. Firefighters and utility personnel are at particularly high risk in these hazardous situations.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. Other emerging technologies include using biomass to produce syngas and methane cracking. There remain serious sustainability challenges to broad adoption of lithium batteries.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

💨 Private equity and O&G bet big on climate tech’s next frontiers: DAC and lithium. Blackrock injected $550M into Oxy’s DAC plant and ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation.   COP29 was announced and will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Clear(er) skies for IRA SAF tax credit.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. 50 companies , representing over 40% global oil production, committed to reduce methane emissions to 0.2%

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

GreenLIB is pioneering a sustainable future by transforming battery waste into profitable, closed-loop solutions within the global lithium-ion battery market. Nth Cycle ’s circular refining method extracts high-purity critical metals of any type, in any state, using just electricity and water.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While lithium-ion batteries paired with new solar and wind is a cost-effective solution in many markets today, closing the remaining storage capacity gap will require “additional revenue streams,” from wholesale market participation to tighter integration of behind-the-meter batteries.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hydrogen is also present in compounds like methane and coal. produces annually comes from methane via steam reforming. However, a fuel cell is much different than the giant lithium-ion battery you find in electric cars. This gas could be a potent source of clean energy , and, according to the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. 💨 Greenlyte Carbon Technologies , a Dedham, United Kingdom-based low temperature Direct Air Capture developer, raised $5M in Pre-Seed funding from Earlybird Capital.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And cow-burp reduction tech is back to tackle methane emissions with a $29M round. Deals of the Week (8/28-9/4) Venture Fundings 🔋 Redwood Materials , a Carson City, NV-based lithium-ion battery recycler, raised $1B in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Capricorn Investment Group, T.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Link Wither Methane? The Trump administration announced they were eliminating a regulation that required oil and gas companies to monitor and limit methane leaks. These different formulations of lithium-ion batteries offer different attributes?

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

A Methane Emissions Reduction Program to reduce the leaks from the production and distribution of natural gas. New fees for natural gas extraction and methane leaks, and Superfund taxes on crude oil and its related products (but also incentives to oil companies that reduce methane leaks). Electric vehicle companies.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. Its self-help projects, which include reducing methane leaks and improving energy efficiency, would have amounted to a reduction of 11 million metric tons per year—less than 10% of Exxon’s current direct emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   This list is far from representative of the biggest methane MRV players.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Trumps agenda has been distinctly anti-environment, including loosening restrictions on methane emissions , waiving environmental laws during the pandemic , rolling back fuel efficiency requirements , repealing water protections and weakening the Endangered Species Act. He’s claimed victory over what he calls “the war on coal.”

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The week ended with a bang rather than a whimper this week, with some hot EV news pouring out on Friday, including XPeng expanding into the Netherlands and Sweden. We already covered some of the other biggest stories, but there are several more below. There are also some good ones from recent days that we […].

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But coal and fossil methane (also deceivingly called “natural gas”) power plants need to be retired more quickly than they have been. Solar power keeps getting cheaper and keeps growing year after year, now accounting for nearly half of new power capacity in the United States.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 1, 2021

102 Projects Across America will Receive Seed Funding to Launch New Ideas to Market That Will Create Jobs.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By Alex Grant, Principal, Jade Cove Partners, San Francisco, USA, & Paul Martin, Chemical Process Development Expert, Toronto, Canada Exxon first correctly identified combustion of their hydrocarbon products as the cause of future catastrophic climate change as early as 1977.¹

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