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- What's next, yet being developed right now to solve climate change? That's at the core of Pique Action's premiere series, NextNow, profiling the innovative founders and the groundbreaking solutions to the climate crisis. In each episode, we identify a different climate challenge and how these innovative teams are working to solve them. From Bangalore to the Bay Area, we highlight the scientific breakthroughs and creative approaches that are being applied to solve climate change.
- ReJoule has developed a revolutionary battery diagnostic test to rapidly answer this question. By cutting down the time from 6-10 hours to a couple of minutes, this company enables old batteries to have a new purpose.
- CarbonCure enables the reduction of cement content in concrete mixes while maintaining its strength. Founded 10 years ago by Rob Niven, the company injects CO2 into the mix - making it stronger and sequestering CO2.
- Nitricity develops distributed, on-site systems, which produce nitrogen fertilizer from air, water and renewable electricity - allowing farms to efficiently fertilize themselves.
- Commercial buildings are the fourth largest emitter of CO2 worldwide - with 67% of their emissions coming from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (aka HVAC). 75F is using machine learning and cloud computing to clean that up.
- What happens when a tree falls in a city? It often gets sent to a landfill. Cambium Carbon is on a mission to change that - they've developed a circular economy platform that enables a fallen tree to be turned into something useful.
- Cydee Technologies improves public area lighting infrastructure in developing countries, cutting emissions and costs.
- 50% of the US population lives within 50 miles of the coastline. A study from NREL shows that wave energy has the potential to power 23 million homes on the West Coast alone. CalWave has built wave energy converter technology that achieves high performance while surviving storms and extreme conditions.
- Remora has built a device that captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They then sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end-users, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments. They're working to turn America's two million semi-trucks into a roving fleet of carbon removal devices.
- Formo is a cellular agriculture startup that develops cultivated, animal-free dairy products through precision fermentation. Through this innovative scientific approach, Formo is ensuring that the future of food is sustainable.
- In a world becoming more familiar with the climatic impact of global warming, wildfires damage homes, businesses, and livelihoods. Perimeter Solutions has developed a fire retardant to prevent and slow down the destruction of wildfires. It's a crucial solution to help firefighters as climate change fuels record-breaking fire seasons.
- Radiator Labs turns existing radiators into smart and energy-efficient heating systems with room-by-room temperature control. They're on a mission to decarbonize the world's legacy buildings - starting in New York City.
- Dandelion Energy is a geothermal heating and cooling company. By replacing furnaces and boilers with geothermal systems, they're able to harvest a reliable, natural energy source while cutting down on costs and emissions.
- Traditional commercial HVAC designs rely on massive volumes of outside air to maintain acceptable indoor air quality.
- Mining is the fifth largest industry in the world - one that disrupts ecosystems by digging up the earth and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Aether Diamonds is transforming the way we produce diamonds while discarding the need to dig.
- Bluemethane is developing a breakthrough data platform and hardware solution to sense and capture methane emissions from water. This will permanently remove methane from water, reduce global warming and support the energy transition.
- Joro is on a mission to empower people to tap into the power of their spending to tackle the climate crisis. Joro helps people track, reduce, and offset the emissions of what they buy.
- Epic Cleantec offers onsite water reuse solutions with sustainable building technology designed to conserve water, recycle resources, and save money.
- 2021–TV EpisodeHousehold paper products such as toilet paper and paper towels make up 15% of total wood consumption, driving deforestation globally. Cloud Paper is on a mission to protect our forests - and they're using bamboo as the solution.
- 2021–TV EpisodeCompound Foods is using biotechnology to create coffee without the beans to preserve valuable resources like land and water.
- Beef production accounts for 60% of all the agricultural land on our planet but makes up only 2% of the calories. Tender Food's products can address both climate and the unethical production processes of the meat industry.
- Clean O2 is a company on a mission to reduce emissions in the heating industry. Their carbon capture tech uses a chemical process to convert CO2 captured from heating system exhaust into a stable carbonate used in soaps and detergents.
- We use oil for far more than driving our cars. It's used for plastics, makeup, furniture, clothes, and much more. Checkerspot has built a decarbonized solution: making oils from microalgae through fermentation.
- Nth Cycle is taking a cleaner, cheaper, and more circular approach to recycling lithium-ion batteries.
- By utilizing plants' natural ability to convert CO2 into simple sugars, Loam Bio converts stable forms of carbon that can be captured instead of released into the atmosphere.
- By using a physical strainer-like-separator to isolate one set of molecules from another, Via Separations is repurposing otherwise wasted resources - all while saving energy.
- By replacing the fossil carbon in critical chemicals with renewable, recycled carbon from CO2, Twelve can eliminate emissions from thousands of essential products and set a new standard for how things get made in the climate era.
- Chefs use eggs for everything - but the culinary world is currently shifting to an animal-free future. EVERY uses precision fermentation to make eggs without the animal.
- Using chitin, an abundant natural biopolymer found in shellfish, Cruz Foam is creating novel thermoplastic pellets that eliminate the need to use harsh, environmentally-harmful chemicals in the packaging production process.
- Genecis solves two major problems. They take food waste and convert it into compostable and marine-biodegradable plastics that break down within 12 months.
- Industrial dye pollutes water and degrades aquatic life. Huue is cooking up a solution in the lab, and it's pretty sweet. Using microbes and sugar, they're creating a sustainable and effective dye substitution.
- Imagine a future where no biomass rots into methane. MicroByre is tapping into the hidden secrets of bacteria, aiming to make use of the waste that often sits in our fields and rots in our wastewater
- The world can't wait for better batteries. Coreshell unlocks the true capacity and economics of batteries to speed up the clean energy transition.
- Cement is responsible for 8% of global emissions and is the third largest industrial source of pollution in the world. By using electrochemistry instead of fire power, Sublime develops technology to make zero-carbon cement.
- This startup is transforming the cooling towers on buildings into carbon capture devices. Using billions of dollars worth of existing infrastructure, Noya can suck CO2 out of the sky at a fraction of the cost of typical direct air capture.
- Today's solar industry is dominated by silicon solar cells, but they're pushing the fundamental limit of how efficient they can be. Swift Solar is building a new class of high-efficiency solar cells using perovskite semiconductors.
- California-based startup Natel Energy has 2 missions: stop climate change and protect biodiversity. Their novel turbine technology is making #hydropower safer for wildlife and building healthier river ecosystems .
- Through their digestive process called enteric fermentation, livestock burps cause an astounding 6% of the world's global warming. Basically, if cows were a country, they would produce about as much GHGs as the entire European Union.
- 2021–TV EpisodeThe EPA estimates that there are over 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, and up to 40% of these wells are leaking methane. Renewell Energy aims to convert 700,000 of these abandoned wells into giant mechanical batteries, enough to power the entire U.S. power grid.
- Globally, flying makes up only 2.7% of global CO2 output, but experts expect it to grow ~300-700% by 2050. Efficiency improvements alone won't prevent aviation from becoming responsible for close to a ¼ of total global #emissions in the next few decades. The solution? Electrification. Heart Aerospace is on a mission to decarbonize passenger flights.
- 2021–TV EpisodeSolving the climate crisis is an urgent problem. The solution involves scaling climate technology as quickly as possible - but many businesses struggle to find funding. Climate Finance Solutions connects companies around the world to the capital they need to help build a better planet.
- The problem with how the world deals with waste is absolutely massive. Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of potentially reclaimable material get landfilled or incinerated. Last year, AMP's AI-driven systems identified more than 67 billion objects, including more than 12.8 billion PET bottles-enough to wrap around Earth roughly 65 times.
- 1.2 billion people face heat risk due to a lack of access to cooling. The problem is, residential AC use alone is set to account for an increase of more than 0.5 degrees C in global surface temperature. Sorin Grama, Co-Founder and CEO of Transaera, talks about their sustainable solution.
- Today, only approximately 2% of plastics are truly recycled, the rest is downcycled, burned, put into landfills, or end up leaking into the environment. Epoch Biodesign gives new life to plastic waste by converting it into everyday chemicals.
- In the US alone, nearly 1/3 of all food produced is wasted, accounting for 4.4 gigatons of CO2 emissions every year. A significant portion of this is due to toxins, pathogens, and pests that originate in the field. Clean Crop Technologies is an agriculture technology company at the leading edge of the Power to Ag movement, replacing fossil fuel-derived chemicals with air and electricity to boost yields, improve food safety, and reduce food waste.
- Ever heard of agroforestry? It involves incorporating trees into agricultural systems and can help mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing soil erosion, sequestering carbon, and improving water quality. Terviva's pongamia trees are a part of this positive change, helping to revitalize the land where it's grown.
- Today, we devote 40% of all habitable land on earth to raising livestock. We need to diversify our protein sources - and Umaro Foods has found a way to do it. They're cultivating seaweed to improve the quality and sustainability of plant-based meat. Starting with bacon.
- 2021–TV EpisodeThe energy sector represents 70% of the global emissions worldwide. If we're serious about decarbonizing, we need to kick out any technology that is polluting out of the picture. Noble Thermodynamics designs emission-free power plants with the sole purpose of decarbonizing the power sector. In partnership with Activate.