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Time to turn the tide on climate change

20 December 2023 admin 0

By Dr Jacqui Taylor, Clean Tech Advisor at 350PPM COP28 marked a pivotal moment in climate change talks with the first-ever global stocktake since the Paris Agreement. It also included the first-ever agreement to transition “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.”. However, the UN’s climate change conference has fallen disastrously short of enforcing a fossil fuel phase-out or indeed providing sufficient climate finance, known as Loss and Damage, to support affected communities in dealing with [...]

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What’s the big deal about the earth getting hotter?

11 December 2023 admin 0

As we eagerly await the outcome of COP28 later this week, many will be taking stock of the targets set in the Paris Agreement back in 2015 when 196 parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Its overarching goal was to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” Despite the explosion of clean energy during the past decade, global warming has cruised through 1.5°C and looks set to continue increasing, unless [...]

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GreenMine is the new trading name for Pyrolysise

27 November 2023 admin 0

GreenMine, the new trading name of Pyrolysise Ltd, is gaining significant traction. GreenMine has co-developed a series of technologies designed for processing unsorted municipal waste (including plastics) from kerbside collection and landfill sites. One of them is detailed here. Municipal waste is a significant contributor to atmospheric pollution with landfill accounting for 4% of greenhouse gases in the UK. Landfills can also contaminate water supply through leachate into the subsoil. With GreenMine's technology, unsorted waste can be processed into bio-coal (allowing energy generation), bio-char (the new black gold), bio-oil (including lignin) and recyclables (glass, metals, minerals etc). Green baseload power and as [...]

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New grant funding adviser joins the team

20 November 2023 admin 0

We’re excited to announce that Colm Macqueen has joined the team at 350PPM. As a keen supporter of initiatives and innovation for sustainable development, Colm will be helping our clients access government grants and funding from related institutions. He said: “We are aiming to secure Innovate UK Smart Grants for our portfolio of climate tech pioneers. Our clients, offering solutions in battery energy storage systems/solar, waste carbonisation, heat storage/cooling, tidal and low-energy catalysed fusion, are prime contenders for this, and similar funding. A successful collaboration with government bodies will also amplify our startups' credibility among private investors, VCs, family offices and institutional [...]

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New expert clean tech advisor

14 November 2023 admin 0

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Jacqui Taylor to our team. Jacqui is a high-level climate leader recognised by the United Nations (UN). She is a principal consultant to companies in the clean tech and renewable energy sectors, and an expert advisor to the UN and the European Commission, providing policy and technology strategic input to address climate change.  Dr Jacqui Taylor said: “I am delighted to join the team at 350 PPM. I will be bringing together my investment, climate policy and cleantech expertise to deliver a new approach to the emission reductions required to deliver net zero”. For the past 15 years, [...]

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350 PPM Updates: Here comes Cool Net Zero: O-Hx releases EnergiVault’s 2-10

10 November 2023 admin 0

Dear All, Please see below for the latest updates from our client companies. Organic Heat Exchangers Ltd EnergiVault is a 1 MWh cold battery that can reduce cooling costs and carbon emissions by between 50% and even 100% in some circumstances.O-Hx has now released EnergiVaults 2-10, after extensive (very successful) trials at Quotient Sciences: A US Pharma.In fact, Quotient have given us a 95% rating, which means they are pretty happy with how Energivault has performed and thus we are now releasing EnergiVault’s 0000002 – 0000010.Here is the video update: O-Hx Releases EnergiVault's 2-10 Here is the link to our blog post with the three [...]

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25 Cabot Square

New London office

9 November 2023 admin 0

We have a new London office in the heart of the city’s central business district. Our London office at 25 Cabot Square is now operational and our MD, Nick Dimmock, will be working from this location on a regular basis. It will also be the main meeting space for clients, investors, and others in the future. Nick Dimmock said: “We’re proud to have secured an office in this desirable location and it is a critical step in developing our culture of meritocracy whereby we deliver valuable services to our clients and share in their success, thus building a successful future for 350PPM [...]

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ENG8’s EnergiCell latest milestone hits the news

4 November 2023 admin 0

ENG8 says it can generate five times as much power as it puts into its fusion energy process. This milestone has hit the news. Fusion energy specialist, ENG8, has demonstrated an electrical energy output five times greater than the energy used in this ground-breaking, independent validation at Culham Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire, one of the top five leading fusion centres in the world, and home to the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority.During each of the three tests, lasting approximately 10 minutes each, ENG8’s ‘EnergiCell’ consistently scored an electrical energy output of five – one unit of electrical energy in, and five units [...]

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