A two-megawatt hydrogen-fueled powerplant, designed and built by First Mode in Seattle, is installed in this Anglo American haul truck at their platinum mine in South Africa, creating the largest zero-emission vehicle in the world. (First Mode Photo) As the United States undergoes a massive transition toward clean energy, Washington state officials are hoping to…
Tag Archives: climate tech
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An artist’s conception shows the layout for the Natrium reactor demonstration project in Kemmerer, Wyo. (TerraPower Illustration) Could we be witnessing nuclear power’s comeback? After decades on the back burner, the sweeping climate change bill recently signed by President Biden includes multiple initiatives boosting existing and future nuclear plants. California this week took steps to…
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Lucas Joppa, center, at the Cascadia Vision 2050 conference in Blaine, Wash. The panel included Steve Shestag, Boeing’s director of environment, left, and moderator Yemi Adefulu, deputy executive director of the B.C. Center for Innovation and Clean Energy. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Lucas Joppa was Microsoft’s first chief environmental officer when he took the…
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A DroneSeed employee oversees the deployment of two drones above a burn site. (DroneSeed Photo) A swarm of giant drones navigates a scorched moonscape, tracing the rugged topography. The scene has a desolate, sci-fi vibe — but its reality is rooted in the terra firma. The devices belong to DroneSeed, a Seattle startup deploying technology…
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An Amazon Prime truck heads north on Interstate 5 in Washington. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon today announced a deal with low-carbon fuel manufacturer Infinium to purchase some of its “electrofuel” to power delivery trucks beginning next year. The partnership is another step in the tech giant’s path to curbing its rising carbon emissions….
We visited the world’s biggest carbon capture plant, which just signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft
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Climeworks, a leader in direct air capture of carbon dioxide, has facilities alongside a large geothermal power plant outside of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. The Orca facility is on the far right, and the new Mammoth facility will be to the left, across the road. The pipes are carrying geothermal hot water. Climeworks relies on clean,…
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Some of the FlexCharging team convened for a meeting in Las Vegas in June. Employees, from left to right: Tyler Phillipi, Harold Shin, David Klein, CEO and founder Brian Grunkemeyer, Ken Nichols and Charles Martey. (FlexCharging Photo) In 2014, Brian Grunkemeyer was a Microsoft principal software engineer with a passion for fighting climate change. That…
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Hannah Baldwin, an electrical engineer for the high-power stationary group at Plug Power, inspects a fuel cell in the generator built in New York in partnership with Microsoft. (Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) Data centers packed with millions of servers provide the backbone of the internet, dishing up everything from cat videos to financial transactions…
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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a former Seattle tech executive first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, at the GeekWire Summit on Oct. 7, 2022. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) If there’s one thing U.S. senators can likely agree on, it’s that there’s little that they agree about. So how did Washington’s Sen. Maria Cantwell…
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The Lithos co-founders scoping some basalt, from left to right: Mary Yap, Chris Reinhard and Noah Planavsky. (Lithos Photo) Lithos, a Seattle startup applying carbon capture technology in an agricultural setting, announced Thursday that it raised a $6.29 million seed funding round. Lithos provides a permanent carbon removal strategy by spreading the dust of crushed…