Vaporizing Rock For Energy | Climate Tech Digest
MIT Technology Review profiles Quaise, a geothermal company using plasma torches to vaporize rock. It hopes to dig the deepest holes ever made, and use the heat to generate clean 24/7 electricity anywhere in the world.
A Google-backed corporate consortium will purchase ocean and rock carbon removal credits, reports Reuters. The nascent technologies hope to remove and permanently sequester carbon.
Google has also invested in long duration storage startup Energy Dome, relays Energy Storage News. The Italian company’s technology uses a closed-loop compressed CO2 cycle to drive a turbine.
Australian startup Calix has secured a A$44.9 million grant to build a green iron plant, according to PV Magazine. The demonstration facility intends to use renewable electricity and green hydrogen to reduce iron ore.
A retinue of startups are seeking to make products from carbon captured from fossil fuel combustion, details Inside Climate News. They hope creating a market for end-use products will increase the economic viability of fossil carbon capture.
