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Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/22\/climate-tech-roundup-food-waste-wastewater-and-the-uks-troubled-battery-industry\/<\/a><\/br>
\nClimate tech roundup: Food waste, wastewater and the UK\u2019s troubled battery industry<\/br>
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Welcome back, climate tech readers! Like last week<\/a>, we\u2019ve got a full slate once more, from food waste to wastewater and more. Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n

\"Food<\/p>\n

Image Credits:<\/strong> Mill Industries<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After selling Nest to Google<\/a> for $3.2 billion, Matt Rogers is no stranger to scaling fast. But unlike last time, Rogers isn\u2019t interested in selling so quickly. \u201cThis is the next 20 years of my life. This is not like, build the company in four or five years and sell to Google. This is a big, long journey,\u201d he told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

Rogers is on a quest to end food waste, which accounts for 6% to 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and his tool to accomplish that is the humble kitchen trash can. Mill Industries\u2019 bin is sleek and tech enabled, dehydrating and grinding food until it resembles dried coffee grounds. Then, when it\u2019s full, it automatically requests a box to mail the dried food scraps to one of Mill\u2019s facilities, where it\u2019s turned into chicken feed. How does it get there? That part surprised Rogers the most<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Industrial facilities from semiconductor plants to automotive factories use surprising amounts of water. What comes out the other end can be challenging to treat and even more challenging to reuse. Which is why Membrion has developed a ceramic membrane that can filter out heavy metals like lead, arsenic and lithium. The startup is $7 million into a Series B round<\/a> that it hopes will bring in another $3 million.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Britishvolt (opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Britishvolt was always a bit of a long shot, but the battery manufacturing startup appears to have missed its target completely. This week, it announced it was declaring bankruptcy, having made little headway on its planned $4.7 billion gigafactory.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s fall echoes what happened here in the U.S. just over a decade ago, when A123 Systems stumbled and entered bankruptcy itself. But the British version of the story may not have a happy ending. With A123, the U.S. had time to cover. With global battery supply chains solidifying, the U.K.\u2019s domestic battery industry might never catch up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Space programs pride themselves on developing far-out technologies that end up proving their worth here on Earth. Apollo helped catapult computing, and the Space Shuttle did wonders for avionics and materials science. Now, it\u2019s Mars rover Perseverance\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n

The MOXIE experiment was built to prove that carbon dioxide can be turned into oxygen on Mars. Chris Graves, who worked on the instrument, thought it could help make use of carbon dioxide on Earth, so he started Noon Energy. The company\u2019s carbon-oxygen battery promises to store electricity for long periods of time at fairly low cost. The startup announced a $28 million Series A<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Heat pumps and home energy retrofits have been getting a lot of attention as a result of incentives contained within the Inflation Reduction Act. That makes it a good time to be Sealed. The company predicts how much energy a retrofit will save and converts the up-front installation costs, billing homeowners based on the savings.<\/p>\n

For a company that depends so heavily on data, Sealed\u2019s acquisition of Burlington, Vermont-based InfiSense makes, well, sense<\/a>. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal. Sealed plans on offering, though not requiring, InfiSense\u2019s sensors to customers to monitor both energy use and indoor air quality.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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