"California-based startup Beewise aims to help address the issue by using a combination of technologies to automate oversight of beehives for beekeepers. The company has raised over $118.7 million in funding since its founding in 2018, including an $80 million funding round in March of this year."

Benjamin Storrow reports for E&E News about an energy storage advancement. “Energy Dome’s technology is a closed-loop system, where CO2 is compressed at 60 bars of pressure and turned into a liquid. When electricity is needed, the CO2 is evaporated to turn a turbine.” Read the full article here.

"Whether using fuel cells or batteries, electric vehicles require robust thermal management systems to keep all of the components operating at their most efficient and ensure durability. Bosch is developing a new flexible thermal unit to improve this functionality."

"X-energy's advances may sweep away those concerns--and costs. The company is commercializing next-gen nuclear. It makes fuel by wrapping specks of uranium in layers of carbon and ceram­ic, and then encasing those bits in graphite balls, which flow through its Xe-100 reactor like gumballs through a dispenser. When a neutron hits the uranium inside a fuel pebble, the shell keeps the neutron from moving too quickly, which makes for a safe chain reaction. The fuel ball never gets hot enough to melt, and it contains the fission products. All of the nuclear waste from X-energy reactions ends up encased in the graphite orbs."

Albert Eisenberg writes in The Washington Examiner about one solution to slash emissions. “The free market is leveraging new technology to come up with ingenious solutions to our environmental problems. These are not always expensive or transformational, but rather incremental and realistic. If we could cut U.S. emissions by several percentage points without massive big...

"Skala uses a 'thin-film PV module' atop a network that transfers the electricity generated into the building's main power supply. According to The Guardian, it can generate 50 times the energy of a typical rooftop photovoltaic solar array used in residential homes."

Catherine Clifford writes for CNBC about nuclear waste’s energy potential. “Fast reactors don’t slow down the neutrons that are released in the fission reaction, and faster neutrons beget more efficient fission reactions, Gehin told CNBC.” Read the full article here.

"In practice, Titan roams a farmer’s field, taking pictures of the ground and using machine vision and AI to separate the weeds from the crops, creating a 3D model of the field in real-time, according to Boyer. Titan’s AI system is trained on a database of over 500 million images of plants, Boyer said."

Rebecca Bellan reports in TechCrunch on New Zealand-based Humble Bee Bio. “Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 million (NZD $5 million) in convertible notes as part of its Series A, has been studying the Australian masked bee, a type of solitary bee that doesn’t make honey, but does make a nesting material for laying larvae...