CCUS

US-headquartered climate tech company Spiritus has secured $30m in Series A funding to expand its carbon removal technology. The round was led by Aramco Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, and...

A new law governing carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), passed last week in Malaysia, has been criticised by lawmakers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for failing to properly address carbon capture risks.

Sharon AI, a US-based high-performance computing company, and New Era Helium, a New Mexico-headquartered energy infrastructure firm, have signed a letter of intent to acquire a 200-acre site in Ector County, Texas, for a 250...

Scientists at the Technology University of Vienna (TU Wien) have found a way to turn battery waste into fuel, developing a nanocatalyst that converts CO2 into methane using spent batteries and aluminium foil.

Texas energy technology company Baker Hughes and Frontier Infrastructure (Frontier), a Dallas-headquartered developer of low-carbon infrastructure projects, have partnered to advance the development of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) and power generation projects in...

Last year saw the world’s first commercial scale production of synthetic fuels. Christian Annesley considers the crucial need for CO2 to scale up this emerging market.

There’s a growing opportunity in carbon dioxide supplied from direct air capture. Christian Annesley talks to Matt Atwood of DAC company Aircapture about progress, and looks at the wider context for scaling up CO2 that’s...

As two features elsewhere in these pages illustrate – shining a light on Synata Bio and Solar Foods respectively – companies around the world are starting to use CO2 to produce premium materials ready for...