Tim De Chant

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CrowdStrike chaos leads to grounded aircraft — and maybe an unusual weather effect

The IT outage may have an unexpected effect on the climate: clearer skies and maybe lower temperatures this evening © 20...
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Without this company’s technology, future fusion power plants might never light up

Marathon Fusion emerges from stealth with a plan to help fusion power plants extract tritium, a necessary fuel. © 2024 T...
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WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength

Strong magnets are essential for the type of fusion power being pursued by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and a number of o...
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Why Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems

Fusion power may still be a few years away, but one startup is laying the groundwork for what it hopes will become a bus...
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NovoNutrients tweaks its bugs to turn CO2 into protein for people and pets

NovoNutrients has raised a $18 million Series A round from investors to build a pilot-scale facility to prove that its f...
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Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

Artyc has raised $14 million to date and has a product on the market, Medstow Micro, that helps ship temperature-sensiti...
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Matt Rogers, Nest and Mill co-founder, talks mastering consumer tech at Disrupt 2024

Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, hi...
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E-fuels startup Aether Fuels is raising $34.3 million, per filing

The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste...
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Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for it

Cheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be li...
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Dandelion co-founder is back to help you electrify your home for less

Balto Energy hopes to speed the electrification by helping homeowners choose and finance the projects that make the most...
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Unigrid wants to make batteries cheaper and safer using sodium

Sodium-ion isn’t quite ready for widespread use, but one startup thinks it has surmounted the battery chemistry's key hu...
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Aepnus wants to create a circular economy for key battery manufacturing materials

The specter of wastewater threatens to stall the construction of battery factories. One startup, though, says the soluti...
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Aepnus wants to create a circular economy for key battery manufacturing materials

The specter of wastewater threatens to stall the construction of battery factories. One startup, though, says the soluti...
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After hits like Reddit and Scopley, Collaborative Fund easily raised a $125M fund to tackle climate, health and food

“We were motivated to fundraise because we think the ’24 vintage is going to be a good one,” founder Craig Shapiro said....
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Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing

The company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries....
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How many Earths does your lifestyle require?

A new app called MyGlimpact is intended not only to help people understand their environmental footprint, but why they s...
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SiTration uses silicon wafers to reclaim critical minerals from mining waste

The startup is hoping its durable filters can make metals refining and battery recycling more efficient, too. © 2024 Tec...
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‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserv...
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Mill’s redesigned food waste bin really is faster and quieter than before

The design brief was simple: each grind and dry cycle had to be completed before breakfast. Here's how Mill made it happ...
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How Clean Energy Ventures avoided the pandemic bubble and raised a $305M fund

When other firms were investing and raising eye-popping sums, Clean Energy Ventures took a different approach. It appear...
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Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales

Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. © 202...
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Ore Energy emerges from stealth to build utility-scale batteries that last days, not hours

Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output...
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Bill Gates-backed wind startup AirLoom is raising $12M, filings reveal

The company is hoping to produce electricity at $13 per megawatt hour, which would be more than 50% cheaper than traditi...
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Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells

Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But l...
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Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance

All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batte...
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ETF Partners raises €284M for climate startups that will be effective quickly—not 20 years down the road

The European venture capital firm raised its fourth fund as fund as climate tech "comes of age." © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
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Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries

Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium...
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Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwe...
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Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team

Here's what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
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Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste

The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in th...
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