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Algae – especially microalgae – has been the holy grail for biofuels for almost 25 years If scientists are still slogging at it, there’s a reason. Microalgae can yield up to 50 times the oil compared to conventional oil crops, making it perhaps the only biomass feedstock that has the...

Coal power plants run at 35% efficiency Is it possible to increase it to 80%? Coal power plants are responsible for a very large portion of the 12 billion tons of CO2 annually emitted from power plants worldwide. And these plants will be operating for decades to come in many...

Is age an asset – and not a handicap – for climate startup founders? When I did my first startup – and that was during the dot com boom – venture capital firms did not even bother to return calls if you were over thirty years of age – you...

Bio-Lutions- Climate Startup- Fibcro natural fibres – converts agricultural residues into unique, self-binding, durable Published as part of CLIMAFIX ?????? 2022, India’s largest climate startup summit. 200+ startups across clean energy, electric vehicles, energy storage, agriculture, waste management, water & carbon capture. ??? 25 & 26, ??????? Know more –https://lnkd.in/gG-9Md6D...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu Three small countries in the world have something amazing to boast about – they are all carbon negative. Serious! Bhutan, Suriname, and Panama stand out from the rest of the world because they absorb more greenhouse gases than they emit. I was curious how this was possible, and it...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu Oceans are by far the largest sinks of CO2, but… Oceans store about 38,000 billion tons of CO2 – more than ten times the amount of CO2 of all the other sinks COMBINED. So, should we store all the CO2 we capture over the next few decades under the...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu Aircraft and battery size For all the talk about electric aviation, the industry is yet to figure out how to overcome a fairly hard problem – let’s call it the 40:1 problem Batteries – even the best of them – have energy densities of only about 300 Wh per...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu Based on 2017 data, an average American consumes about 800 times the electricity as an average citizen of Guinea Bissau. In other words, an average American uses more electricity in one day than an average Guinea Bissau citizen does in two years. Should we chide the rich Americans for...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu The problem with offsets If yours were a large steel company throwing out millions of tons of CO2 emissions every year, but unable to reduce these emissions because of the constraints of the current technologies and processes used to produce steel, you can still contribute to “reduced emissions” by...

https://lnkd.in/gKGi53Eu If you look at it from one angle, the term low carbon doesn’t make much sense, and no carbon even less. Because life on earth is all about carbon. Plants, humans, we are all made of carbon. Just in case you didn’t realize it until now, repeat it after...