L'aggregazione dei coloranti organici è sempre stata considerata un effetto da evitare: riduce la reattività, spegne gli stati eccitati, compromette l'efficienza dei fotocatalizzatori. Un gruppo di ricerca italiano ha dimostrato il contrario #ClimateTech #greenplanner

https://www.greenplanner.it/2026/06/05/idrogeno-dalla-luce-coloranti-organici/

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises 465M USD to build a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. The funding brings total raised to over 700M USD.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/helion-the-sam-altman-backed-fusion-startup-raises-465m-to-build-a-power-plant-for-microsoft/ #Tech #Startup #News #ClimateTech

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

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Carbelim Algae Trees, also known as Liquid Trees, use microalgae photobioreactor technology for carbon capture, air purification, oxygen generation, and IoT-based air quality monitoring.

#Carbelim #AlgaeTree #LiquidTree #Microalgae #Photobioreactor #CarbonCapture #AirPollution #ClimateTech #Sustainability #ESG #SmartCity #CleanAir #GreenEngineering #India

Fusion startup Focused Energy has raised 240M USD in Series A funding to develop laser-powered fusion technology. The company aims to make fusion power a commercial reality. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/focused-energy-raises-whopping-240m-series-a-for-laser-powered-fusion-tech/ #Tech #Startup #News #ClimateTech
Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech | TechCrunch

Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.

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Scientists just created a liquid “sun battery” that stores solar heat for days — and can release enough energy to boil water on demand. No grid. No giant battery packs. Just chemistry. ☀️🔋

#CleanEnergy #SolarPower #ClimateTech #Renewables

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/04/liquid-battery-bottles-the-suns-heat-for-days/

Zigging when most are zagging, ex-Meta CTO raises $250M climate fund | TechCrunch

Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world's energy and material shortages.

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🚨 NEWS: Nuova estrazione del litio e IPO climate tech, il 2026 segna una svolta energetica

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Due sviluppi paralleli stanno ridisegnando il panorama dell'energia pulita. Da un lato, un team di ricercatori ha pubblicato su Science un metodo innovativo per estrarre il litio,...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/nuova-estrazione-del-litio-e-ipo-climate-tech-il-2026-segna-una-svolta-energetica

#batterieLitio #litio #estrazioneLitio #rockZero #climateTech

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ClimAIteTRACK: Vertical and Horizontal Integration Spotlight – TravelTechnologySolutions.net – The Newsroom

China’s Offshore Solar Giant Is Real, and It’s Doing the Most

Click to watch: China’s HG14 offshore solar project turns the sea into a power grid, with fish farming reportedly sharing the space below.

Dear Cherubs, China has done what it so often does with infrastructure: taken a perfectly sensible idea and scaled it up until it looks like a dare. Off Dongying, in Shandong province, CHN Energy says it has brought online a 1-gigawatt open-sea offshore solar project built with 2,934 PV platforms, more than 2.3 million modules, and 11,736 steel piles hammered into the seabed. In other words, it is solar power, but with a shipping-industry gym membership.

A SEA OF PANELS

This is not your garden-variety floating array. CHN Energy describes the project as a fixed-pile offshore PV system, designed to sit about 8 kilometers from shore and handle waves, tides, strong winds, and seasonal sea ice without immediately filing for retirement. pv magazine reported that the panels are mounted on 60-by-35-meter steel platforms, tilted at 15 degrees, and connected through a 66-kilovolt subsea cable system with onshore transmission infrastructure. So yes, the engineering is serious. The drama is mostly in the size.

WHY IT MATTERS

The developer says the plant should generate about 1.78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to meet the needs of roughly 2.67 million urban residents, while avoiding around 1.34 million tons of carbon dioxide and saving more than 500,000 tons of standard coal. Those are company estimates, so treat them as reported projections rather than holy scripture, but the basic point is hard to miss: this is a very large clean-power machine with a very large ambition. CHN Energy also says the site uses a “PV-above, farming-below” model, mixing power generation with aquaculture. Multi-use land? More like multi-use sea.

The timing is not random either. Reuters reported that China connected the world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang in 2024, and The Guardian reported in June 2025 that China added 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 gigawatts of wind in just the first five months of the year, with installed solar capacity passing 1,000 gigawatts. So this offshore project is not a quirky one-off; it is part of a national habit of building renewable energy at a scale that makes other countries look like they are still printing brochures.

The hot take is simple: the future of solar may not always be rooftops and deserts. Sometimes it looks like a steel fortress at sea, built to wrestle weather, salinity, and gravity into submission. For readers who enjoy the bigger-picture angle on energy megaprojects, thisclaimer.com also tracks similar scale-and-geopolitics stories with a very internet-friendly sense of proportion.

Sources list
CHN Energy — https://www.ceic.com/gjnyjtwwEn/xwzx/202411/c315e1982ebc4a68844a7473a2734d18.shtml
pv magazine International — https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/29/china-commissions-worlds-largest-1-gw-open-sea-offshore-solar-project/
Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
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