GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

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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Vox

AUGUST 7, 2023

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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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

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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