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Via Separations Tackles Manufacturing’s Exorbitant Thermal Energy Usage

Greentown Labs

The longer it takes, the more energy it uses. Filtration membranes aren’t sturdy enough for chemical separations, so immense amounts of thermal energy are used. Plastic and paper and fertilizers aren’t going away, and the embodied energy and embodied emissions for that are really significant,” she adds.

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SteamIQ Tackles Our Big Steam Problem

Greentown Labs

Steam is an effective way to move heat from a power plant throughout a system. energy use—devote 70 percent of their fuel to steam. The most bang for your buck, if you want to be energy efficient, is to fix steam traps. SteamIQ has about 40 customers, with a total of over 1,000 monitors deployed.

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Stanley Black & Decker Joins Greentown Labs as Newest Terawatt Partner

Greentown Labs

10, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) as its newest Terawatt Partner—the highest level of engagement with the incubator. Somerville, Mass., Dina Routhier, President of Stanley Ventures, will serve on the Advisory Board for 2021.

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If the world wants a green recovery, it must commit to innovation

Business Green

But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. Drax engineers at work within the UK's biggest renewable power plant | Credit: Drax. Biomass wood pellet storage dome and conveyor system, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax.

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Global call for applicants to the plastics data challenge by The Incubation Network

Eco-Business

The Plastics Data Challenge is a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies, methodologies and working prototypes that help entrepreneurs and others collect, analyse and leverage data to understand and address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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? Macro market freeze chills climate tech: Venture funding down 40% in H1 2023

Climate Tech VC

🚗 Vertical: Funding to Transport, Energy, and Food—the “Big Three” verticals—each dropped by ~50% compared to the prior year. Variations by vertical The overall funding drop owes largely to the “Big Three”: Transportation, Energy, and Food & Land Use. TPG Rise Climate.

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Global Briefing: US Senate backs plan to make daylight saving time permanent

Business Green

Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. European governments continued to ramp up their clean energy plans in response to the Kremlin's threat to EU energy supplies, with the Dutch government announcing it is to double its 2030 wind offshore targets.