IT総合 Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago
Furno’s micro-kilns promise to reduce pollution and eliminate transportation costs.
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IT総合 IT総合 Former watch trader is now building the AWS of grid storage, Terralayr
The startup's technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions o...
IT総合 Amazon jumps on nuclear power bandwagon by investing in X-Energy and promising small reactors
The company revealed three deals, including an investment in a fission startup and two development agreements to add nuc...
IT総合 Treehouse uses AI to help electricians install tech like EV chargers and heat pumps more cheaply
The startup seeks to reduce inefficiencies for electricians, including from site visits while quoting jobs.
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IT総合 Google signed a deal to power data centers with nuclear micro-reactors from Kairos — but the 2030 timeline is very optimistic
With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity.
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IT総合 Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes
To cut direct air capture's costs, the startup has developed a material that, in a two-step process, absorbs carbon diox...
IT総合 Scope3 starts tracking the carbon footprint of AI
The startup, which already monitors the climate impact of digital advertising, is expanding to include artificial intell...
IT総合 Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century
After keeping Century under wraps for several months, the startup gave TechCrunch a peek under the hood.
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IT総合 Lithios takes inspiration from battery manufacturing to mine lithium from salty water
Lithios is part of a fresh crop of startups is trying to meet the booming demand for lithium by extracting it from subsu...
IT総合 Kobold Metals, which uses AI to help find critical minerals for the energy transition, raises $491M
Kobold Metals has raised $491 million of a targeted $527 million round, which could value the company at over $2 billion...
IT総合 Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
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IT総合 Why EnergyX raised $75M from small investors, even after taking VC money from GM and others
EnergyX’s offering took advantage of SEC Regulation A, which allows companies to raise money from retail investors in ex...
IT総合 Acceleron Fusion has raised $15M to take another stab at cold fusion, filing reveals
Where most startups aim to recreate the superheated, super-pressurized conditions inside of a star, Acceleron takes a di...
IT総合 Zap Energy investors in recent $130M round included Soros Fund and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective
The company recently closed a $130 million round, according to an SEC filing, bringing the total to $327 million.
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IT総合 Marvel Fusion lands $70M for laser-powered fusion bet
Marvel Fusion is one of several companies pursuing what’s known as inertial confinement fusion.
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IT総合 Ayrton Energy mimics margarine to store hydrogen safely
As the universe’s lightest gas, hydrogen is tricky to contain. But there’s an alternative: attaching hydrogen atoms to a...
IT総合 Northvolt lays off 1,600 workers, but it’s not the end for Europe’s battery champion
Europe’s attempt at building a battery manufacturing powerhouse announced that it had halted work on a factory expansion...
IT総合 How Big Tech embraced nuclear power
Companies are eyeing nuclear power as a way to reconcile their breakneck data center growth with their commitments to hi...
IT総合 Tidal Metals sees seawater as the solution to a critical mineral shortage
The startup, previously known as GreenBlu, was working on desalination when it realized there was more value in the mine...
IT総合 Zeno emerges from stealth to crib Tesla’s master plan for Africa and beyond
The startup has been methodically exploring how batteries might transform life in emerging markets
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IT総合 Karman Industries hopes its SpaceX-inspired heat pumps will replace industrial boilers
The startup will use turbomachinery to develop a heat pump capable of generating industrial-grade heat.
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IT総合 Phlair’s carbon sucking technology could lower direct air capture’s costs
The startup is taking a different approach to removing carbon dioxide from the air than most of its competitors.
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IT総合 Hgen draws on lessons from Tesla and SpaceX to drive down the cost of hydrogen
The startup focuses on optimizing the entire widget, from the electrolyzer’s electrodes to the tangle of pipes and pumps...
IT総合 Google and Muon Space join forces to continuously scan Earth for wildfires
The company is working with Muon Space, the Earth Fire Alliance, and others to launch FireSat.
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IT総合 Every fusion startup that has raised over $300M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
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IT総合 Hardware companies dominate a list of promising climate tech startups
A new report from Congruent Ventures and SVB highlights startups that could significantly reduce carbon emissions, mitig...
IT総合 Climate change was a lot less prominent in this year’s iPhone event
The lack of climate announcement's at Apple's annual event shows just how hard meaningful progress on carbon emissions c...
IT総合 Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips
The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot wa...
IT総合 C-Zero is raising $18M to make emission-free hydrogen using natural gas, filings reveal
By using readily available natural gas as the feedstock, C-Zero hopes to produce emission-free hydrogen for less than ot...
IT総合 Endolith is using ‘Olympic caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage
The stealthily operating startup thinks it can narrow the gap by helping miners extract more copper from their mines.
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