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This startup turns discarded crab shells into useful industrial chemicals

GeekWire

That includes water purification, replacing flame retardants and PFAS “forever chemicals” in clothing, and improving the uptake of fertilizers by plants. The company was an early customer for Tidal Vision’s cleaning chemicals. An acquisition: Tidal Vision added roughly 100 employees when it acquired Everett, Wash.-based

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GeekWire Awards: Sustainable Innovation finalists create, destroy and transform to protect the planet

GeekWire

These companies are creating technologies to generate clean energy from smashed atoms and natural gas, blasting weeds into oblivion, spinning crab shells into clean chemicals, and sucking carbon dioxide gas out of industrial exhaust flues. They create, transform, destroy and remove — all in the name of saving the planet Earth.

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Albemarle is growing fast. They’re motivated. The playbook is there.

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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

The fund has raised $525,000 so far and is accepting applications from startups seeking capital. Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes.

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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

Superconductors are already employed in certain limited applications for storing energy. Batteries — from a Duracell AA all the way to a Tesla lithium-ion battery capable of holding approximately 100 kWh — store energy chemically, and can convert it to usable electricity. Then there’s quantum computing.

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This Spokane startup catches carbon dioxide at the source, before it escapes to the environment

GeekWire

(CarbonQuest Photo) “Distributed, smaller consumers is something that we haven’t thought about very much,” said Grigorios Panagakos , a chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University who researches carbon management. “That’s something that is kind of unique as an application.”

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Tyler Renner, PATH’s director of media, recalled that the application was “simple and straightforward,” amounting to about 2,000 words. The application itself was just one or two prompts.