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

Vox

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. Better superconducting materials, then, or ones requiring much less cooling, could bring us closer to fusion reactors that generate net power.

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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. Grigorios Panagakos, assistant research professor in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

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How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

GeekWire

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory chemical engineer Dushyant Barpagaare is using a laboratory continuous flow system to study solvents that can capture carbon from the air. The CO2 then needs to be stored, most likely in an underground, geologic storage site, or ideally put to another industrial use that keeps it out of the atmosphere.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

The related storage and computing operations rely on massive data centers around the world that are packed with computers that chug energy 24 hours a day. The two companies both backed Canada’s CarbonCure , a startup that removes carbon from the atmosphere and chemically traps it in concrete. Click to enlarge.

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