Welcome back, climate technology readers! Just like last week, we got a complete slate again, from food waste to wastewater and more. Let’s dive in.
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After selling Nest to Google for $3.2 billion, Matt Rogers is no stranger to scaling fast. But unlike last time, Rogers isn’t interested in selling any time soon. “This is the next 20 years of my life. This is not like starting a company in four or five years and he sells it to Google. This is a big, long road,” he said at TechCrunch. told to
Rogers aims to eliminate food waste, which accounts for 6% to 8% of total greenhouse gas emissions. His tool for achieving that is a humble kitchen trash can. The Mill Industries trash can is a sleek, tech-enabled container that dehydrates and grinds food until it resembles dried coffee grounds. And when it’s full, it automatically requests a box for mailing the dry garbage to one of his mill facilities, where it turns it into fodder for the chickens. how do you get there? That part surprised Rogers the most.
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From semiconductor factories to automobile factories, industrial facilities use a staggering amount of water. What comes out the other end can be difficult to process and even harder to reuse. Therefore Membrion has developed a ceramic membrane that can remove heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and lithium. The startup has a Series B round in which he has invested $7 million, and he expects another $3 million.
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British Volt has always fallen short of its mark, but the battery-making upstart appears to have fallen short of its mark. The company announced this week that it would declare bankruptcy, and his planned $4.7 billion Gigafactory has made little headway.
The company’s bankruptcy mirrors what happened here in the United States nearly a decade ago when A123 Systems stumbled and went bankrupt. However, the British version of the story may not have a happy ending. With A123, the US had time to cover. Global Battery Supply As his chain hardens, the UK’s domestic battery industry may never catch up.
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The space program prides itself on developing far superior technology that will prove its worth here on Earth. Apollo advanced computing, and the Space Shuttle did wonders for avionics and materials science. Now it’s the turn of the Mars rover Perseverance.
The MOXIE experiment was built to prove that carbon dioxide can be converted to oxygen on Mars. Chris Graves, who worked on this device, started Noon Energy because he thought it could help harness carbon dioxide on Earth. The company’s carbon-oxygen battery promises to store electricity for a long time at a fairly low cost. The startup announced a $28 million Series A this week.
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As a result of the incentives contained in the Control Inflation Act, heat pumps and home energy retrofits have received a great deal of attention. Now is a good time to be sealed. The company estimates how much energy a retrofit will save, translates the initial installation costs, and charges homeowners based on the savings.
For a company that relies heavily on data, Sealed’s acquisition of Burlington, Vermont-based InfiSense makes sense. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal. Although not required, he plans to provide customers with sensors from his InfiSense that monitor both energy use and indoor air quality.
