Spiers New Technologies (SNT) is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The company works in four areas, which they refer to as the 4Rs: repair, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and repurposing of EV batteries. And, as one of the leading companies in this space, they are leveraging economies of scale to quickly expand.
"Elon Musk was not mad when he announced funding for carbon removal technology. It’s a field that’s on the cusp of spreading worldwide, and one in desperate need of further research. If countries are unable to reduce their emissions, carbon capture might be our only hope for reducing the impact on the climate – the sooner it’s commercially viable, the better."
"For the past decade, the German-based company has been developing its Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology that chemically binds green hydrogen at high storage densities under ambient conditions to enable transport and storage using the infrastructure for conventional fuels."
"Bill Gates’ nuclear venture is called TerraPower, and it has (rather symbolically) picked a remote coal town in western Wyoming as the site of its first innovative nuclear power plant. The plant will be cooled with liquid sodium instead of water, making it safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective than a traditional nuclear plant. They also have the potential to recycle their own spent fuel within these ‘molten salt’ cooling systems, thereby mitigating the total output of radioactive waste which represents one of nuclear critics’ strongest sticking points."
"The U.S. space agency also pointed out that work on the lunar nuclear fission reactor will also help advance work into nuclear-powered rockets, such as a rocket being developed by a startup called Ad Astra, which, in theory, could reach speeds of up to 123,000 mph (~198,000 km/h) and travel to Mars in only a month."
Beam Suntory is a leader in the world of premium spirits. The company has set out the “objective of being the world’s most admired and fastest-growing premium spirits company, and a vision of Growing for Good...driving growth through quality craftsmanship, consumer connections, and entrepreneurial spirit.”
"Brimstone Energy is an early-stage startup that’s currently raising money to build a pilot production facility. It raised an initial $2 million starting in 2019 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), the National Science Foundation and a number of other sources."
Texas-based Net Power LLC has used carbon-free natural gas to deliver electricity to the grid for the first time ever.
"While hydrogen itself is generally considered a clean and extremely useful basic element, its production is married to numerous dirty industrial processes. Oil refineries and plastic production, for instance, may give off various hydrocarbons and other mixed gases and chemicals, and to separate them requires further processing and emissions."
"In the ten years to 1992 the amount of nuclear energy consumed worldwide had increased by 130%. What was more, some talked of using nuclear plants to produce not just electricity, but also hydrogen which could then form the basis of synthetic fuels."
