Human ingenuity and invention are developing new ways of dealing with the colossal problem of plastic pollution.
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Source Plans Growth From Thousands To Millions Of Drinking Water-Producing Hydropanels Following $130 Million Boost
“'It works entirely off the grid, requires no outside source of electricity or piped water infrastructure, and produces high-quality drinking water on site and in a variety of climates and conditions,' the company says. 'Digital sensors inside the panels and a cloud-based, 24-hour monitoring system create unparalleled insight into the quality and quantity of the water.'”
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Bio-recycling gets fashionable with enzymes that will eat your shoes
"Carbios says its enzyme is also capable of selectively decomposing the polyester material, which makes it possible to recover basically all the polyester found in textile waste, even blended fabrics."
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Could This Breakthrough Make Plastic Production Truly Circular?
“'The Olefy process turns plastic waste to olefins and other recycled industrial chemicals in one single step. Thanks to this, the amount of targeted olefins and other recycled chemicals is significantly higher than in multi-step processes.'”
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Bill Gates’ company TerraPower raises $750 million for nuclear energy and medicine innovation
Catherine Clifford reports for CNBC that TerraPower has raised $750 million. “TerraPower also wants to commercialize a kind of molten salt reactor technology that could be used to provide carbon-free energy to heavy industrial operations, like water treatment plants, chemical processors and heavy industrial users. And the company is building the Traveling Wave Reactor, which it says...
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RepAir Develops an Efficient and Low-Heat Direct Air Capture System to Remove CO2 from the Atmosphere
Since the Industrial Revolution, mass amounts of carbon dioxide have accumulated in the atmosphere. While natural cycles draw down carbon dioxide, the process can take anywhere from 300 to 1,000 years. With emissions on the rise, technologies that capture and store atmospheric CO2 will become an important part of efforts to decarbonize globally. There are...
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Meet ‘Copernicus’: TAE’s planned billion-degree, hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion reactor
"To that end, the company recently closed its Series G-2 financing round, in which it secured $250 million from investors in the energy, technology, and engineering sectors. By avoiding carbon and particulate emissions, TAE's safe, non-radioactive method minimizes any negative effects on the environment or the effects of climate change."
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Innovation is Unleashing a Climate Tech Renaissance
Americans across party lines support the most logical solutions forward, and businesses large and small are already solving their way towards conservation and climate protections. Sustainable solutions are everywhere in the free market; it’s time the White House aligns its effort with its options.
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Microsoft demos clean energy breakthrough for data centers that keep the internet humming
"Microsoft officials agreed that the suppliers for the fuel cell hardware and green hydrogen are lacking. But there are so many potential applications, the hope is that the software and cloud giant can help create demand for the sector to spur its growth."
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Lithos Carbon is Using Enhanced Rock Weathering to Capture CO2
Lithos Carbon, a start-up out of Seattle, is using Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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