IT総合 It’s too late for nuclear to save the climate
Even with the new designs, nuclear power probably won’t be enough to make a difference because its biggest hurdles aren’...
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IT総合 IT総合 Federal hydrogen hub program could give fuel a boost — or the boot
The federal government's approach to hydrogen is strikingly similar to the way it promoted biofuels a decade ago. That's...
IT総合 Overstory snags $14M Series A to use AI to help utilities cut their wildfire risk
Utilities have long known about the hazards posed by trees growing close to power lines, but the successive disasters ha...
IT総合 Where’s the innovation in induction kitchens?
Induction cooking has the potential to liberate us to rethink the kitchen, but new designs have been slow to arrive.
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IT総合 Toyota’s EV strategy hinges on a partnership with a petrochemical company
Toyota’s EV progress remains nascent. And a recent announcement about a manufacturing partner suggests that the company ...
IT総合 Bedrock Energy thinks the solution to decarbonizing skyscrapers is 1,500 feet underground
Big buildings almost always have big carbon footprints, and getting the carbon out of heating and cooling is especially ...
IT総合 Breathe Battery Technologies bets that software will eat batteries too
The startup has developed software for lithium-ion batteries to endow them with either faster charging speeds or greater...
IT総合 At One Ventures’ $375M new fund shows climate tech is still hot
The 3-year-old venture capital firm raised more money than it expected for its second fund, suggesting that limited part...
IT総合 How much carbon pollution is in your product? Muir AI raises $3.25M seed to answer that question
Everything from materials to manufacturing and distribution leaves a carbon footprint, and not all vendors report their ...
IT総合 How to raise a Series A in today’s market
Three investors shared their perspectives on what’s changed, what’s working today, and what advice they’re giving founde...
IT総合 Rick Fox wants his concrete startup’s carbon credits to subsidize down payments for homeowners
Plenty of companies sell carbon credits, but Rick Fox wants to use them to help lower the cost of acquiring a home made ...
IT総合 LimeLoop’s sleek reusable mailers seek to replace cardboard boxes
The startup’s smart mailers are reusable dozens of times, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared with cardboard b...
IT総合 Do Apple’s environmental claims live up to its own highly polished hype?
Apple has made some bold claims about its environmental impact. Can the new Series 9 watch live up to them?
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IT総合 Treefera raises $2.2M to solve the carbon credits credibility problem with AI
The company is building an AI-enabled data platform for companies that want to know more about the carbon credits they b...
IT総合 Refiberd sews up $3.4M seed round to use its AI to tackle textile waste
AI is nothing new in the recycling industry, but Refiberd’s approach appears to break fresh ground both in its applicati...
IT総合 7 founders explain what fusion power needs to go mainstream
If the 2020s are going to be the decade of AI, then the 2030s could be the decade of fusion power. That is, if the secto...
IT総合 Advanced Ionics nets $12.5M Series A to inject green hydrogen into heavy industry
When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. I get it: people are used to fill...
IT総合 7 founders and CEOs discuss fusion power’s most pressing challenges
The hype around fusion power is real. Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved net-positive controlled nuc...
IT総合 One company’s quest to eliminate battery fires
Battery fires are bad. Just ask LG, GM, Tesla, Volkswagen or any of the hundreds of people whose e-bikes have caught fir...
IT総合 Is JPMorgan turning a corner on climate finance?
Let’s get this out of the way: JPMorgan Chase doesn’t have the best reputation in the climate sector. Since the Paris Ag...
IT総合 It’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor
If there was any hope remaining that LK-99 might be a room-temperature superconductor, it’s pretty much dead now.
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IT総合 Soil can store gigatons of carbon, and Yard Stick wants to measure it all
When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: What should we do wit...
IT総合 The White House’s efforts to combat climate change have sparked a tech arms race with the EU
For years, the U.S. lagged behind much of the rest of the world when it came to climate action. The European Union and i...
IT総合 Fun while it lasted: The room-temperature superconductor claim is probably bunk
It’s been a fun few weeks.
The internet — and more than a few scientists — got their hopes up a couple weeks ago w...
IT総合 Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find its way into kitchens?
Feeding table scraps to chickens isn’t a new idea. But then again, neither were smoke detectors when Matt Rogers co-foun...
IT総合 Scientists repeat breakthrough fusion experiment, netting more power than before
It wasn’t a fluke: Researchers at a Department of Energy (DOE) lab have repeated their breakthrough fusion power experim...
IT総合 What if room temperature superconductors were real?
Hope springs eternal. For decades, there have been claims that researchers have created room-temperature superconductors...
IT総合 Elon Musk is probably right about one thing
It’s become an internet pastime to point out all the things that Elon Musk is wrong about and all the ways he’s wrong ab...
IT総合 Can we trust automakers to build an EV charging network that rivals Tesla’s Supercharger?
Automakers appear to have had an awakening last week: Electric vehicles are the future, and if they want to continue sel...
IT総合 Flipturn hauls in $4.5M seed funding to help trucking fleets electrify for less
Charging an electric vehicle on a road trip these days can be challenging, but it doesn’t hold a candle to what fleet ma...