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Algenol closes on additional $25M internal equity financing

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Founded in 2006, Algenol converts CO 2 from industrial emitters into transportation fuels through its Direct-To-Ethanol process. This technology has the best chance of actually reducing carbon emissions while producing cheap fuel in the process. This new investment follows a previous investment of $40 million from BioFields in 2014.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste. Granting of the patent enabled the formation of MOF Technologies from Queen’s spin-out arm QUBIS.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. Sheehan (2006), STI Working Paper, OECD.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Flexible Debt Capital.

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