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How a high-tech twist on a 19th-century process could clean up steel and cement making
This startup made a heat battery using old-school materials.
Thermal heat projects slated for deployment in Kern
A series of demonstration projects set to launch this year in Kern County will help test the commercial viability of a thermal energy storage technology designed to put renewable electricity to use powering high-heat industrial processes.
Renewables for cement? Gates-backed startup eyes ‘missing link’
A Bill Gates-backed startup is betting that renewables can serve as the foundation for low-carbon cement and be more than a clean resource for cars, buildings and power generation.
Rondo tackles industrial heat to drop global CO₂ emissions by 1% in the next decade
In climate circles we spend a lot of time talking about manufacturing and power generation in the effort of cutting CO2 emissions. It’s pretty rare that I get a whiff of a company that has a clear path toward cutting global carbon emissions by a full percent — but that’s what Rondo Energy pitched to its investors and customers, raising $22 million and setting some very excited environmentalists’ hearts a-flutter in the process.
This startup wants to use cheap surplus clean energy to make high-temperature industrial heat
A Bay Area startup says it has a new solution for one of the most stubborn problems in the transition to clean energy: replacing the fossil fuels burned for high-temperature cement production with a climate-friendly alternative.