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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

GeekWire

It has support from programs including the U.S. The secret sauce in Banyu’s technology is a special chemical called a “reversible photoacid.” The effect is reversed when the light is removed and the chemical “relaxes” back into its original condition, turning the solution basic again.

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

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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. Svante’s big round is one data point in a banner year for the carbon removal and storage sector.

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Watch history being made with moon lander’s launch by Vulcan rocket and Blue Origin’s engines

GeekWire

NASA is paying Astrobotic $108 million to fly a suite of science instruments that will take stock of the radiation environment and the chemical composition around the landing site — perhaps including on-the-ground detection of water in lunar soil. — not far from where ULA builds its Vulcan rockets.

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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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Workplace Health and Safety Training – Employer Responsibilities

Kitaboo

Through an effective training program, employers can inform the workers about specific industry hazards and provide information on how to protect themselves from those health hazards. Catastrophic weather conditions like storm and hurricane, a fire break-out or a chemical spill can happen without any warning.

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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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Workplace Health and Safety Training – Employer Responsibilities

Kitaboo

Through effective workplace health and safety training program, employers can inform the workers about specific industry hazards and provide information on how to protect themselves from those health hazards. Related: [Infographic] Accelerate Employee Engagement With Mobile-Based Corporate Training Program.

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