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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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$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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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. That's where you know, your water plants come in, that's where your chemicals, your oil and gas, your big manufacturing facilities.

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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.