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Hydrogen fuel startup spins out of Bill Gates-backed R&D effort, lands $7.8M

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Its strategy includes using electrolyzing technology to produce valuable industrial chemicals alongside hydrogen. Other co-founders include Stefan Omelchenko, a former Apple engineer; chemical engineer Matthew Shaner; and Orca Sciences founder Ian McKay.

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

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Emerging carbon dioxide removal technologies that leverage the ocean’s vast size and natural chemical processes hold promise as tools to draw down carbon at scale,” said Ocean Visions’ senior program officer Nikhil Neelakantan, in announcing its latest “Launchpad” program cohort that includes Banyu.

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The impact of chemistry on food preservation and flavor enhancement

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It informs us about the changes in foods during processing and storage. The chemistry behind food preservation and flavoring is a complicated and intriguing field surrounding different chemical reactions, processes, and techniques. According to research, chemistry is hugely significant in the food processing sector.

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Seattle-area startup Group14 raises $17M to charge up battery-enhancing tech

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million, including a prize given in September as a winner of the department’s EV-focused Energy Storage Grand Challenge. It spun out of EnerG2 , a University of Washington spinoff that Luebbe also co-founded and was acquired by German chemical company BASF in 2016. Department of Energy has awarded the company an additional $7.5

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

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startup that replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. Department of Energy surplussed items; high-voltage electronics from eBay; energy storage capacitors from Russia; and goods from Surplus Sales of Nebraska where you can go “full mad scientist,” Crisp said.

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Pass the NaCl: Scientists create new types of salt crystals that could exist on Europa

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This salt crystal is both exotic and common: It’s actually table salt — also known as sodium chloride, with the chemical formula NaCl — but bound up with water molecules to form a hydrate that doesn’t exist naturally on Earth.