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Grant From Bill Gates-led Fund Will Make Green Jet Fuel As Cheap As Fossil Fuels, and other headlines from this past week

Grant From Bill Gates-led Fund Will Make Green Jet Fuel As Cheap As Fossil Fuels, and other headlines from this past week

Last week, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, founded by Bill Gates, announced its first Catalyst Project Funding in $50 Million Grant to our client LanzaJet. You can read about it in this Bloomberg article which also appeared in Fortune. A scientist from one of our client’s labs, LanzaTech, appeared on a children’s podcast busting myths about gas and we appreciate CNBC’s Julia Boorstin continuing to use Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech as inspiration for other leaders. Below you can find more clips from this past week.

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LanzaTech Awarded Engineering Contract to Produce Circular Ethanol for Sustainable Mobility and Chemicals 

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LanzaTech Awarded Engineering Contract to Produce Circular Ethanol for Sustainable Mobility and Chemicals 

NextChem has awarded LanzaTech an engineering contract to deliver a process design package for a syngas fermentation unit to produce circular ethanol for sustainable mobility and chemicals based on its biocatalyst technology.

Disrupting the global supply chain starts with changing how we make the chemicals that are the building blocks for everything we use daily.

Disrupting the global supply chain starts with changing how we make the chemicals that are the building blocks for everything we use daily.

Ethylene is one of the largest commodity chemicals used today and is the precursor to most things we use in our daily lives. But it is primarily produced from fossil inputs (petroleum or natural gas) and at a tremendous cost, accelerating the climate crisis.

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Closing the Carbon Cycle and Creating a Pathway to Net-Zero

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Closing the Carbon Cycle and Creating a Pathway to Net-Zero

What if you could take today's plastic or acrylics and create them using pollution and lock carbon up before it escapes into our atmosphere? In the March issue of Nature Biotechnology, (and online today), a team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab reveal their results and methods from a pilot-scale demonstration and life cycle analysis that they can now manufacture glass for windows or headlights, plastics, even nail polish remover and thousands of other products, all from pollution. (See story, here.) This carbon negative platform saves >160% GHG emissions, playing a critical role in helping the U.S. reach a net-zero emissions economy. The results from this collaboration will change how companies can manufacture products.