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Transforming the Grid

To run the grid reliably and affordably, we need new cost-effective technologies capable of storing electricity for multiple days. Form Energy reinvented and optimized the iron-air battery for the electric grid. The active components of our iron-air battery system are…

Data Matters

Here’s a site that organises and allows one to set up RSS feeds for all things US politics. I don’t mean news media with click bait headlines, but actual public papers of the President, the budget, and proceedings in the…

Plastic

1907: Plastic was invented 1933: Polyethylene was created (shopping bags, food packaging, bottles) 1970: Annual plastic production is 35m tonnes 2013: 215k tonnes of plastic is floating in the ocean (excludes plastics at depth). One third of this has accumulated…

Making Cement Greener

Concrete is one of the most used commodities in the world, second only to water, and among the most polluting. The industry accounts for about 2.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, or about 6 per cent of global emissions.…

Reddit Gems

Your perception is your reality. This concept is the fundamental premise behind living a happy, fulfilled life.  The way you perceive yourself, the world, and the future will always influence what comes next for you in life. The term perception…

Contraction

Globalisation sought to make our world larger but ultimately made it smaller: a tsunami of Western certainty – and its franchised way of living – further suffocating our ability to think laterally. Cultures, each with their own complex history of…

Financing the Clean Industrial Revolution

Bill Gates publishes something called Gates Notes on subject matter, this one was around climate action. “Currently, companies can get credit for reducing emissions by purchasing offsets, investments in a wide range of projects with climate impact, including forestry and…

KlimaDAO

At first glance, KlimaDAO looks less DeFi and more a protesting collective forcing carbon credit prices higher. Polluting companies often have an emissions cap; they can either purchase carbon credits to offset excess emissions, or they can invest in efficient…