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At TEDxElemental, climate-tech entrepreneurs spoke about planting roots and spreading wings

Elemental Excelerator

Carbon negative materials. Allison Dring and the team at Made of Air are already creating materials that are carbon sinks. Today, he and his team at Fervo Energy are building scalable and affordable geothermal power for 100% clean energy. Never start something you can’t finish.

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'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Business Green

These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups. However, the country's ability to export the geothermal energy and green farming innovations that have resulted have always been somewhat offset by its remoteness.

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Event - New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources

Green Market Oracle

the world, there are many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Geothermal power plants, using the steam, produced from reservoirs of hot water found a couple of miles or more below the Earth's surface. Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes.

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🌎 UK's cap-and-floor plans for LDES #218

Climate Tech VC

  🧪 Emvolon , a Boston, MA-based waste to carbon-negative fuels platform, raised $10m in funding.    🌱 forward earth , a Berlin, Germany-based automated carbon management, raised $5m in Seed funding from Revent and Speedinvest. 

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🌎 The lithium jackpot in Smackover #220

Climate Tech VC

By 2030, it aims to produce 75,000 to 100,000 tons of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE), the refined product used in batteries, enough to power 1m EVs.  In another win for geothermal energy, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to Fervo Energy’s Cape Geothermal Power Project.

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Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159

Climate Tech VC

✈️ Twelve broke ground on a commercial-scale facility in Washington state to produce a jet fuel made from water, electricity, and carbon dioxide. Fervo is firming up the clean energy equation with geothermal power generation to support wind and solar on a decarbonized grid.