CarbonCure wins global Carbon XPRIZE competition
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based cleantech startup CarbonCure Technologies has taken home $7.5 million USD after winning the grand prize at the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition.
CarbonCure’s mission is to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment by 500 million tonnes annually by 2030.
The global competition, which took place in three rounds over 54 months, challenged participants to develop technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions into usable products.
CarbonCure was one of two grand prize winners, with the other being Los Angeles-based CarbonBuilt.
Founded in 2012, CarbonCure implements carbon capture solutions by storing CO₂ and recycling waste from concrete products. The startup’s mission is to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment by 500 million tonnes annually by 2030.
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Stoicheia Announces Scientific Advisory Board
March 15, 2021 GMT
SKOKIE, Ill. (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 15, 2021
Stoicheia, a new technology startup that uses a nanotechnology-based approach to ultrahigh throughput materials discovery, today announced the first four members of its scientific advisory board.
Bringing expertise in nanotechnology, materials science and clean energy, Richard Crooks, Vinayak Dravid, Edward Sargent and Peidong Yang joined the Stoicheia team, effective February 17.
With the ability to perform millions of experiments simultaneously, Stoicheia’s technology can rapidly identify new materials with ideal properties for numerous applications, including for the energy, transportation, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - e-Zinc, a Toronto-based energy storage innovator, announced today it has raised $2.3 million in a closed round led by BDC Capital s Cleantech Practice.
e-Zinc has developed a breakthrough technology for grid-scale energy storage that stores energy in physically-free zinc metal. By decoupling power and energy, the company scales energy capacity at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion batteries, enabling the technology to economically deliver energy over a period of multiple days. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will enable the world s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy.
BIG DEAL: e-Zinc to accelerate commercialization of its breakthrough energy storage technology
TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2021 - e-Zinc, a Toronto-based energy storage innovator, announced today it has raised $2.3 million in a closed round led by BDC Capital s Cleantech Practice.
e-Zinc has developed a breakthrough technology for grid-scale energy storage that stores energy in physically-free zinc metal. By decoupling power and energy, the company scales energy capacity at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion batteries, enabling the technology to economically deliver energy over a period of multiple days. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will enable the world s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy.
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