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Are any of these moonshot projects trying to counteract human-driven climate change?

• vilhelm_s 8y ago
  > The Foundry uses this intense interrogation to root out the things that could kill a project down the line, before X has poured in piles of money and time. Take Foghorn, X’s effort to create a carbon-neutral fuel from seawater. The tech was amazing and the problem was huge, but two years in, the team realized they had no viable way to compete with gasoline on cost—and were reliant on technology that was closer to research than development. X killed Foghorn, gave everyone on the team a bonus, and let them find new projects to push.
• Eridrus 8y ago
  There's a salt battery project in X. Makani is also in X. There's a thermal pump company that graduated from X last year. There's also a team at Google working on Fusion research. Probably more I don't know too.
  • pfdietz 8y ago
    Thermal pump -- is that Malta?
    • Eridrus 8y ago
      Not sure if thermal pump is really the right term, but I meant Dandelion.