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Noya: Using Cooling Towers to Capture CO2
This startup is transforming the cooling towers on buildings into carbon capture devices. Using billions of dollars worth of existing infrastructure, Noya can suck CO2 out of the sky at a fraction of the cost of typical direct air capture.
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Swift Solar: Startup Harnesses the Power of the Sun
Today's solar industry is dominated by silicon solar cells, but they're pushing the fundamental limit of how efficient they can be. Swift Solar is building a new class of high-efficiency solar cells using perovskite semiconductors.
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Natel Energy: Hydropower Protecting River Life
California-based startup Natel Energy has 2 missions: stop climate change and protect biodiversity. Their novel turbine technology is making #hydropower safer for wildlife and building healthier river ecosystems .
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Symbrosia: Feeding Cows Seaweed To Reduce Methane
Through their digestive process called enteric fermentation, livestock burps cause an astounding 6% of the world's global warming. Basically, if cows were a country, they would produce about as much GHGs as the entire European Union.
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Renewell: Turning Leaky Oil Wells Into Renewable Energy Storage
The EPA estimates that there are over 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, and up to 40% of these wells are leaking methane. Renewell Energy aims to convert 700,000 of these abandoned wells into giant mechanical batteries, enough to power the entire U.S. power grid.
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Heart Aerospace: Flying Electric Planes Into the Future
Globally, flying makes up only 2.7% of global CO2 output, but experts expect it to grow ~300-700% by 2050. Efficiency improvements alone won't prevent aviation from becoming responsible for close to a ¼ of total global #emissions in the next few decades. The solution? Electrification. Heart Aerospace is on a mission to decarbonize passenger flights.
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AMP Robotics: Robots Revolutionizing Recycling
The problem with how the world deals with waste is absolutely massive. Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of potentially reclaimable material get landfilled or incinerated. Last year, AMP's AI-driven systems identified more than 67 billion objects, including more than 12.8 billion PET bottles-enough to wrap around Earth roughly 65 times.
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Transaera: Building Eco-Friendly Air Conditioning
1.2 billion people face heat risk due to a lack of access to cooling. The problem is, residential AC use alone is set to account for an increase of more than 0.5 degrees C in global surface temperature. Sorin Grama, Co-Founder and CEO of Transaera, talks about their sustainable solution.
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Epoch Biodesign: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste
Today, only approximately 2% of plastics are truly recycled, the rest is downcycled, burned, put into landfills, or end up leaking into the environment. Epoch Biodesign gives new life to plastic waste by converting it into everyday chemicals.
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Clean Crop: Curbing Post-Harvest Food Waste
In the US alone, nearly 1/3 of all food produced is wasted, accounting for 4.4 gigatons of CO2 emissions every year. A significant portion of this is due to toxins, pathogens, and pests that originate in the field. Clean Crop Technologies is an agriculture technology company at the leading edge of the Power to Ag movement, replacing fossil fuel-derived chemicals with air and electricity to boost yields, improve food safety, and reduce food waste.
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Terviva: Drought Tolerant Tree Can Combat Climate Change
Ever heard of agroforestry? It involves incorporating trees into agricultural systems and can help mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing soil erosion, sequestering carbon, and improving water quality. Terviva's pongamia trees are a part of this positive change, helping to revitalize the land where it's grown.
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Umaro Foods: Ocean-Grown, Plant-Based Bacon
Today, we devote 40% of all habitable land on earth to raising livestock. We need to diversify our protein sources - and Umaro Foods has found a way to do it. They're cultivating seaweed to improve the quality and sustainability of plant-based meat. Starting with bacon.
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Noble Thermodynamics: Combustion Power with Zero Emissions
The energy sector represents 70% of the global emissions worldwide. If we're serious about decarbonizing, we need to kick out any technology that is polluting out of the picture. Noble Thermodynamics designs emission-free power plants with the sole purpose of decarbonizing the power sector. In partnership with Activate.
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Sense Labs: Unveiling the Future of Energy Management
This startup is revolutionizing the energy industry by making the grid smart and empowering individuals to manage energy in their homes with machine learning. Watch the film to see how Sense Labs is building a cleaner, more resilient future.
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