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Most manufactured products contain materials produced with carbon from fossil feedstocks. Econic Technologies has developed a process for replacing fossil feedstocks used to produce polymers with captured carbon from waste carbon dioxide.
Solar and wind energy require low-cost grid storage to be economic at high penetrations. Sodium–metal chloride batteries have been produced commercially for more than 25 years with more than 1 GWh sold, but their current cost point is too high for utility-scale grid storage. Inlyte Energy has optimized this technology for low-cost grid storage.
The carbon intensity of electricity production is constantly changing. Electricity Maps provides colour-coded maps and data streams to help energy consumers know their own carbon footprint.
Carbon materials such as graphite are important in energy storage technologies, but their mining and/or synthesis can have large environmental impacts. UP Catalyst synthesizes these materials directly from CO2 in an electrolysis process.
