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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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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Active in 69 countries, Eni works across the value chain—from natural gas and oil to electric and renewable energy generation, traditional and bio-refining and chemicals. Global energy company Eni was recognized for its HPC5 supercomputer , a powerful and sustainable system used to research new energy sources. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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Chevron leads $318M investment round for carbon capture company Svante as sector booms

GeekWire

The CO2 is then concentrated for storage or industrial uses. The technology is suitable for a range of applications, the company said, including the production of hydrogen, pulp and paper, lime, cement, steel, aluminum and chemicals. Record-setting year for carbon removal startups.

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This ag-tech startup kept digging, and found an electrifying idea to zap weeds and soil pests

GeekWire

Crisp began wondering about useful applications of that electricity to target soil nematodes that can damage valuable crops and vegetation. startup that replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. . The actual application is more complicated. Done and done.

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How quantum computing could transform everything everywhere, but not all at once

GeekWire

Energy generation and storage, food production, climate modeling, disease treatment and genetic repair are all potential targets for quantum supremacy. “Chemists who do not use quantum computers to model chemical reactions will go bankrupt,” he says. “We have thousands of Petri dishes with chemicals in them.

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Univ. of Washington unveils plans for lab space dedicated to battery innovation

GeekWire

“A battery is a chemical system that is highly engineered so that all the parts work together,” said Dan Schwartz, founding director of the UW’s Clean Energy Institute , which includes the testbeds. “And the nation is really under-invested in that kind of engineering work.” ” Here’s the challenge.

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GM announces plans to make mobile power generators using hydrogen fuel cells

The Verge

The cubes can then be deployed in a variety of applications, including mobile generators and temporary EV chargers. GM said the ideal application would be at an outdoor concert venue, thanks to the hydrogen generator’s much lower noise profile as compared to gas-powered power sources.

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