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Bill Gates-Backed Startup to Use Old Wood to Remove Carbon From the Air
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Bill Gates-Backed Startup to Use Old Wood to Remove Carbon From the Air

"Graphyte is in the process of building its first plant in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, near local timber and rice mills that could serve as biomass sources, according to Rogers. It’s also in the process of signing customer offtake agreements, or a contractual commitment to buy carbon removal services at a predetermined price upon delivery. The first carbon blocks are expected to be produced by January 2024. The startup projects the project will have the capacity to remove 5,000 tons of CO2 per year by the end of 2023 and 50,000 by July of 2024."

How Unilever uses AI to cut petrochemicals out of laundry soap
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How Unilever uses AI to cut petrochemicals out of laundry soap

"Arzeda, which raised a $33 million Series B round of venture funding in March 2022, doesn’t just help companies with discovery. It’s also a co-development partner. It has already worked with Unilever to design, engineer and test the enzymes in real-world testing quantities. The next step will be to scale production of the enzymes and help commercialize them. 'We are getting better and better at the design with every undertaking,' said Arzeda CEO Alexandre Zanghellini."

How The Concrete Industry Can Maximize Its Moment In The Sun
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How The Concrete Industry Can Maximize Its Moment In The Sun

"There’s never been a better time to work in our industry, and I’m excited about the possibilities that await us as craftsmen in the years ahead. However, we also face some critical challenges – helping the general public gain a greater understanding of what we do, maintaining their trust by ensuring that low-carbon concrete works in the real world as well as it does in the lab, maintaining our independence and ability to prescribe the right product for each job and protecting the market ecosystem that helps our industry contribute to this economic transition are all big tasks."

Is this Chicago-area startup the ‘Tesla of heavy-duty’ trucking?
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Is this Chicago-area startup the ‘Tesla of heavy-duty’ trucking?

"Blumreiter and Johnson co-founded ClearFlame Engine Technologies to market engine technology that allows trucks, generators and other motors to run on a variety of low-emissions fuels such as ethanol, methanol or liquid ammonia. While these fuels are not zero emissions, various studies have shown pure ethanol’s life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are roughly 40 percent to 50 percent less than petroleum-based fuel."

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