Yesterday

Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths; plus Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites

Career exploration platform Find Your Grind raises $5 million to help more students discover alternative professions. Also, the discovery of a massive lithium deposit suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected. Learn more about your a ... Show More

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Yesterday

X-energy rides nuclear wave, raises $700M Series D

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Nov 24

This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a boat; plus, Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing

Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the path will be easier out at sea. Also, AI testing startup Momentic has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation fro ... Show More

9m 35s

Mar 2024

Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits

The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.Read this story here.

2m 48s

Jul 2023

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub’s Oil Outlook

Plus, Oxy’s big bet on capturing carbon from the air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23m 59s

May 2023

The Far North Is Burning—and Turning Up the Heat on the Planet

Wildfires and human meddling are transforming the Arctic and its surroundings from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter, exacerbating the climate crisis. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com and read this story here.

6m 41s

Jan 2022

BrainStuff Classics: How Close Are We to Recycling Carbon Dioxide Emissions?

Carbon dioxide is a waste product of gasoline- and coal-burning engines, and it's a serious pollutant. But what if we could capture that carbon and recycle it into usable fuel? Learn more in this classic episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks. ... Show More

4m 25s

Aug 2023

Your carbon footprint should bring you joy

<ul></ul> <p>The concept of a “carbon footprint” began as a distraction from Big Oil: get people to focus on their own actions rather than the impact of large emitters. Oil companies come up with PR campaigns all the time, but the carbon footprint took off because it taps into a ... Show More

34m 57s

Mar 2022

Demystifying Carbon Offset Markets With Brent Thumlert, Managing Director, Software and Technology, at Radicle

<p>Marketplaces for carbon offsets sound like a great idea, but may seem a little shrouded in mystery as to how they actually help the environment. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentthumlert/">Brent Thumlert</a>, the Managing Director of Software and Technology at <a href ... Show More

29m 7s

Jun 2023

Scrubbing Carbon from the Air

Dan Friedmann is the CEO of Carbon Engineering. The company is at the frontier of a new industry, direct air capture. They just broke ground on a big plant in Texas that will pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Dan’s problem is this: how do you bring the price of direct air captu ... Show More

25m 49s

Mar 2022

How Removing Carbon Could Actually Encourage Us to Continue Polluting

This episode we're looking at the potential philosophical problem behind implementing carbon removal strategies. Could they inadvertently cause industries to stop trying to curb emissions in the first place? Would this be like a get-out-of-jail-free card for people? American Univ ... Show More

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Carbonfact is a carbon management platfo...