Renewell Energy publishes a white paper on the logistics behind their technology that converts oil and gas wells to energy storage. Natural gas and oil wells are ubiquitous in our lands, from the urban landscape of Los Angeles to the rolling plains of West Texas. These wells are a testament to the widespread and historical […]
Across the U.S., abandoned wells are belching the powerful greenhouse gas. This nonprofit aims to plug them to fight global warming. Read the full article from the Washington Post.
The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes), but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be […]
BY MATTHEW VOLLRATH In the winter of 2019, Kemp Gregory, a graduate student in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, got a call from Walker Colt. Friends since childhood, they had both begun their careers as petroleum engineers in Houston, Texas, but hoped to transition to something greener. Now, Colt had an idea for […]
Stefan Streckfus and Kemp Gregory trade trash talk across a ping-pong table in Palestine, their words flying over the net with every ball-to-paddle connection, and intensifying when one of the duo misses, and has to scramble after the ball before the game can resume. The two men, one from North Carolina, the other from Houston, […]
Coming in at 7-feet wide and 20-feet long and weighing about 8,500 pounds, Artemis Prime is a force to be reckoned with.
America’s national parks are plagued by tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, according to new analysis. These orphaned wells, for which the owners have long since vanished or are now insolvent, spew super-potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, along with leaking brine into the groundwater at parks.
