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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

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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A journey into home electrification

Grist

Residential energy use accounts for roughly one-sixth of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Our homes remain heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and natural gas in particular. — Claire Elise Thompson Our first foray into discarding gas was installing a heat pump water heater.

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Meet the #C2VInitiative Startups On the Forefront of Carbontech

Greentown Labs

CarbonQuest’s unique, patent-pending approach to utilizing carbon capture in buildings that use natural gas for heating, hot water, and/or adsorptive chilling can reduce a building’s emissions by 50 percent or more. CarbonQuest (New York City, U.S.) Cemvita Factory (Houston, U.S.) Cemvita Factory (Houston, U.S.)

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Griffith’s steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure. homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Next is the demand side.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

Business Green

Griffith's steps to "radically demystify" decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure. Sixty-nine million US homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Now picture "7.1

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The war to electrify: America can do it

AGreenLiving

Saul Griffith of Electrifying America at VERGE Electrify 21 Griffith’s steps to “radically demystify” decarbonization start with the supply side, the 730 million tons of coal mined from 669 coal mines, and then all the layers of natural gas and gasoline infrastructure. Next is the demand side. Sixty-nine million U.S.

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Houston’s Energy Transition Ecosystem Convenes for Climatetech Summit 2021

Greentown Labs

Massachusetts Materials Technologies (MMT), which provides patented technologies for pipeline companies to nondestructively assess the safety, performance, and regulatory compliance of vintage pipelines used for the transmission of natural gas and liquids.

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