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ReJoule: Maximizing Batteries
ReJoule has developed a revolutionary battery diagnostic test to rapidly answer this question. By cutting down the time from 6-10 hours to a couple of minutes, this company enables old batteries to have a new purpose.
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CarbonCure: Cleaner Concrete
CarbonCure enables the reduction of cement content in concrete mixes while maintaining its strength. Founded 10 years ago by Rob Niven, the company injects CO2 into the mix - making it stronger and sequestering CO2.
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Nitricity: Planting with Lightning
Nitricity develops distributed, on-site systems, which produce nitrogen fertilizer from air, water and renewable electricity - allowing farms to efficiently fertilize themselves.
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75F: Making Dumb Buildings Smarter
Commercial buildings are the fourth largest emitter of CO2 worldwide - with 67% of their emissions coming from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (aka HVAC). 75F is using machine learning and cloud computing to clean that up.
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CalWave: Unlocking the Power of the Ocean
50% of the US population lives within 50 miles of the coastline. A study from NREL shows that wave energy has the potential to power 23 million homes on the West Coast alone. CalWave has built wave energy converter technology that achieves high performance while surviving storms and extreme conditions.
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Remora: Carbon Capture on Trucks
Remora has built a device that captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They then sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end-users, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments. They're working to turn America's two million semi-trucks into a roving fleet of carbon removal devices.
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Formo: Real Cheese Without the Cow
Formo is a cellular agriculture startup that develops cultivated, animal-free dairy products through precision fermentation. Through this innovative scientific approach, Formo is ensuring that the future of food is sustainable.
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Perimeter Solutions: Mitigating Wildfires
In a world becoming more familiar with the climatic impact of global warming, wildfires damage homes, businesses, and livelihoods. Perimeter Solutions has developed a fire retardant to prevent and slow down the destruction of wildfires. It's a crucial solution to help firefighters as climate change fuels record-breaking fire seasons.
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Radiator Labs: Fixing the Radiator Problem
Radiator Labs turns existing radiators into smart and energy-efficient heating systems with room-by-room temperature control. They're on a mission to decarbonize the world's legacy buildings - starting in New York City.
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Dandelion Energy: Tapping Into Geothermal
Dandelion Energy is a geothermal heating and cooling company. By replacing furnaces and boilers with geothermal systems, they're able to harvest a reliable, natural energy source while cutting down on costs and emissions.
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Aether Diamonds: Diamonds Out of Thin Air
Mining is the fifth largest industry in the world - one that disrupts ecosystems by digging up the earth and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Aether Diamonds is transforming the way we produce diamonds while discarding the need to dig.
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Bluemethane: What's Worse Than CO2?
Bluemethane is developing a breakthrough data platform and hardware solution to sense and capture methane emissions from water. This will permanently remove methane from water, reduce global warming and support the energy transition.
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Joro: Can Your Actions Fix the Climate?
Joro is on a mission to empower people to tap into the power of their spending to tackle the climate crisis. Joro helps people track, reduce, and offset the emissions of what they buy.
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Tender Food: Harvard Scientists Reinvent Meat
Beef production accounts for 60% of all the agricultural land on our planet but makes up only 2% of the calories. Tender Food's products can address both climate and the unethical production processes of the meat industry.
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CleanO2: Turning Pollution into Soap
Clean O2 is a company on a mission to reduce emissions in the heating industry. Their carbon capture tech uses a chemical process to convert CO2 captured from heating system exhaust into a stable carbonate used in soaps and detergents.
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Loam Bio: Can Soil Save the World?
By utilizing plants' natural ability to convert CO2 into simple sugars, Loam Bio converts stable forms of carbon that can be captured instead of released into the atmosphere.
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Twelve: Closing the Loop on Carbon Emissions
By replacing the fossil carbon in critical chemicals with renewable, recycled carbon from CO2, Twelve can eliminate emissions from thousands of essential products and set a new standard for how things get made in the climate era.
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Cruz Foam: Goodbye Styrofoam
Using chitin, an abundant natural biopolymer found in shellfish, Cruz Foam is creating novel thermoplastic pellets that eliminate the need to use harsh, environmentally-harmful chemicals in the packaging production process.
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Huue: Are Your Pants Polluting?
Industrial dye pollutes water and degrades aquatic life. Huue is cooking up a solution in the lab, and it's pretty sweet. Using microbes and sugar, they're creating a sustainable and effective dye substitution.
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