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Announcements – Zilberman Blog – Opportunities – Events – Articles 1. Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub: Berkeley’s new home for climate innovation
2. Integrating Technology and Policy To Tackle Climate Change Under the Italian Sun 3. EBI Recharge Facility 4. EBI Business Incubator 5. Berkeley Interdisciplinary Climate and Environmental Equity Seed Grants 6. Bay Area Heat Health Climate Workshop 7. BBC: The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery 8. TCD: Energy company launches world’s first energy storage facility using molten salt
9. UIUC: iSEE Funds Two Start-up Projects
10. LBNL: A Better Model for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Fuels and Products |
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Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub: Berkeley’s new home for climate innovation |
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UC Berkeley recently announced plans to construct The Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub, expected to open during the 2027-2028 academic year. The hub will provide campus innovators with the resources they need to launch successful companies in the burgeoning field of climate technology.
At the site currently occupied by University Hall, the donor-funded facility will include laboratory and flexible scale-up space tailored to support a diverse array of climate research, from renewable energy and carbon capture to greener building materials and agricultural practices.
Gather the details by reading more. |
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Integrating Technology and Policy To Tackle Climate Change Under the Italian Sun |
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| EBI’s Executive Committee member David Zilberman has come out with a new blog post about his trip to Italy for a bioeconomy consortium. He reflects on the topics of discussion, including understanding productivity and technological change.
“Our bioeconomy consortium (ICABR) returned to Ravello after five years of pandemic and meetings in Bologna and Argentina. Ravello is as charming as ever. I still enjoy climbing the steps and taking in the view, but I do it slower. Both the regulars and some new faces participated in this glorious meeting. There was a lot to learn, and here are some highlights,” he writes.
Find his piece on the EBI’s website soon, linked below! |
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Berkeley Interdisciplinary Climate and Environmental Equity Seed Grants |
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UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research has launched a new seed fund to support innovative and integrative interdisciplinary studies of climate and environmental equity at the local, regional and/or global scales. This pilot initiative is designed to support interdisciplinary teams of scholars who will collaborate across 1-2 semesters to develop a competitive research grant proposal for external funding.
Proposals for this pilot initiative are due July 22. Find more information below. |
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Bay Area Heat Health Climate Workshop |
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Earlier this month, CLEE and BCCN hosted a 90-minute workshop for Bay Area health departments and Berkeley/LBNL researchers to discuss plans for this summer’s expected heatwaves and new research on extreme heat. Watch the workshop recording linked below for an interesting and important conversation on heat health. |
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BBC: The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery |
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In this day and age, there are many ways to produce and store energy: wind, hydro, lithium, and… cement?
Scientists at MIT have discovered a way to store energy with a device known as a supercapacitor–made just from water, cement, and carbon black. This ingenious approach has the potential to solve the pressing issue of energy storage, and it all comes back to the material beneath our feet.
Get further details by reading more. |
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TCD: Energy company launches world’s first energy storage facility using molten salt |
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“The first project of its kind.”
Danish company Hyme Energy is launching Molten Salt Storage (MOSS), an energy storage system that uses molten hydroxide salt to store excess clean energy. This salt is heated to extreme temperatures with wind or solar power. Then, during periods of lower clean energy production, the salt can be turned into steam that can provide electricity.
Explore the company that created this technology and the alternatives the project inspires by reading more. |
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UIUC: iSEE Funds Two Start-up Projects |
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An interdisciplinary proposal for a “Future Metropolis Initiative” has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 planning grant from UIUC’s Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE). This project aims to address urban climate threats and make cities more sustainable.
Additionally, iSEE has awarded $30,000 in seed funding for an interdisciplinary proposal to examine the economic and human health effects of exposure to wildfire smoke on a broad scale, to help inform climate policy.
Delve into the details of the projects and their teams by reading more. |
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LBNL: A Better Model for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Fuels and Products |
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With so many bright minds working on new ways to generate renewables energy, there are occasionally points when we create excess energy. To address this issue, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley have devised a way to convert carbon dioxide into fuel and other products. They do this with a device called a membrane-electrode assembly.
“Membrane-electrode assemblies are complicated systems with multiple layers. Each layer holds different chemical species, additives, and particles,” said Adam Weber, a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab. “Often, we don’t really know why experiments with membrane-electrode assemblies produce certain products, or why they fail to convert a larger percentage of a given amount of carbon dioxide.”
Get further details on the technology by reading more. |
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