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• Climate Tech Startup Planetary Technologies Wins $1M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Milestone Award

  Today, Planetary Technologies was awarded the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Milestone Award for its accelerated carbon transition platform. Planetary's unique innovations leverage the planet's ability to store carbon as a natural component of ocean chemistry. Planetary will use the $1 million prize to achieve a full-scale demonstration of its technology. Along with removing and storing carbon, Planetary's carbon removal process also creates renewable fuel and restores some of the damage climate change has already caused in ocean ecosystems.

• Anglo American's Newly Named NuGen Hydrogen Powered truck Set for Launch at Mogalakewna Mine on May 6

  The launch of Anglo American's hydrogen-powered ultra-class mine haul truck - newly named nuGen - has been set for May 6, 2022 at Anglo Platinum's Mogalakwena open pit platinum operating in Limpopo Province, South Africa.

• This $1.5 billion startup promised to deliver clean fuels as cheap as gas. Experts are deeply skeptical.

  Last summer, investors gathered in the parking lot of a converted warehouse in Santa Cruz, California.

  Rob McGinnis, the founder and chief executive of Prometheus Fuels, was ready to show off his “Maxwell Core.” The pipe-shaped device is packed with a membrane riddled with carbon nanotubes, forming pores that separate alcohols from water.