The Energy and Sustainability honorees are part of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. Explore the full list of projects we’re honoring for making the world more equitable, accessible, and sustainable. The Energy and Sustainability category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects that address clean power, battery technology, recycling infrastructure, or any other…

There was no prospect of getting any more oil out of the old well. It was just a depleted cavern hiding beneath the sun-baked Texas soil. But then some folks came along and squirted a special liquid into it. They went away for five days, and when they came back it was no longer an…

A start-up in Texas is using microbes to produce clean hydrogen from depleted oil wells for less than $1 a kilogram. Cemvita hopes that their new technology will support net-zero transition efforts by producing clean, energy-efficient fuel at low cost. “Hydrogen now is in the spotlight more than it’s ever been,” Charles Nelson, chief business officer at…

Cemvita’s Successful Field Test Demonstrates Gold Hydrogen™ Production in Situ ‍To accelerate the clean energy transition, Cemvita taps existing oil and gas infrastructure to produce clean hydrogen at $1/kg using subsurface microbes‍ Houston, TX, September 27, 2022 — Cemvita Factory (“Cemvita”) today announced multiple developments with its Gold Hydrogen business. After achieving a key milestone in…

The Gold Hydrogen Program, a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch — and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process — during this week’s 2nd American Hydrogen Forum. A joint industry partnership to commercialize clean, gold hydrogen, the program’s founding members include Cemvita…

New York, April 08, 2021 – BloombergNEF (BNEF) today announced the twelve winners of the 2021 BNEF Pioneers – early-stage companies that are pursuing exciting and important low-carbon opportunities. The winners were selected as their innovations fill important gaps in optimizing long-haul freight, making sustainable materials, tracking greenhouse gases, valuing carbon sinks and reducing energy and chemical use.…