If there’s one lesson learned amid the pandemic, it’s that we can’t take anything for granted — whether it’s continued growth or another flood of funding.
UBQ Materials’ plastic replacement product attracts $170M from impact investor TPG Rise
UBQ Materials, which claims it has developed a plastic-like material made from 100% unsorted household waste, has raised a $170 million funding round led by TPG Rise, TPG’s global impact investing platform, made through TPG Rise Climate, the firm’s dedicated climate investing fund, and The Rise Funds, its multi-sector impact investing fund. The financing round […]
Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech
It is a financial and a moral imperative to make climate technology, together with medicine, the main priority of humanity.
WildWorks, maker of Animal Jam and Feral, angers fans with embrace of crypto gaming
Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam, launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. But in recent days, the company has angered many of its core users with news that it’s reusing Feral’s technology platform and many of […]
A step forward for CO2 capture
The air we breathe has a carbon problem. But in Hellisheidi, Iceland, a geothermally active plateau just outside of Reykjavik, a new technology is taking a small but mighty step toward fixing it. A plant called Orca, built by Climeworks, is the first-ever facility where CO2 is being filtered directly from the air and stored […]
「ナトリウムイオン電池」は、EVの新たな動力源になるか
電気自動車（EV）などに広く採用されているリチウムイオン電池の代替として、材料にナトリウムを用いたバッテリーの開発が進んでいる。安価で安定供給されるナトリウムを用いることでバッテリーの価格が下がり、原材料も含め大規模なバッテリー産業を米国に立ち上げる機会にもつながると期待されている。
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発電所の新設を減らせる？ 既存のダムを水力発電に活用する計画が進行中
クリーンな電力の利用を推進すべく、既存の非発電用のダムを水力発電に活用する計画が進められている。すでに米国では2000年以降に36カ所のダムに発電用タービンが追加設置され、500メガワットを超える再生可能エネルギーを生み出せるようになった。こうした技術を世界的に展開できれば、発電所の新設を大幅に減らすことも可能になるかもしれない。
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Tesla forced to turn down €1.1 billion in EU support for German battery plant
Delays to factory near Berlin left carmaker unable to meet EU state aid conditions.
Bill Gates’ nuclear power company selects a site for its first reactor
First-of-its-kind reactor to be built in Wyoming with heavy Dept. of Energy backing.
Watr launches ESG-oriented blockchain for commodities, partners with Algorand
With COP26 negotiations in full throw this week, the climate is probably the highest up the global agenda it’s ever been. And as the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, more people are talking about re-writing the rules of trade, not just to unblock the clear inefficiencies made manifest by the Evergreen Suez-blocking debacle, […]