Gerod Carfantan

Gerod Carfantan

@gerod.me

Investor @ Sente Ventures - Industrial DeepTech. Intellectually curious and globally minded. Palm Beach County, FL ( + Chicago + Canada + Europe, etc.)

104 Followers 333 Following 19 Posts Joined Sep 2024
1 year ago
BMW Group scores circular economy win with high-voltage batteries | Automotive World With electric mobility continuing to gather pace, recycling high-voltage batteries is increasingly under the spotlight

BMW Group scores circular economy win with high-voltage batteries | Automotive World

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Ratatouille, robot edition! 😊

Check out shebuildsrobots.com

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Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.

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JLR closes the loop with industry first breakthrough using recycled seat foam | Automotive World JLR has worked with industry partners Dow and Adient to produce new seat foam for its luxury vehicles with closed-loop recycled content, a first in the automotive industry1

JLR closes the loop with industry first breakthrough using recycled seat foam | Automotive World

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CO2 & Waste-Derived Bioplastics: Pioneering Sustainable Manufacturing As the world grapples with the environmental impact of traditional plastics, bioplastics derived from carbon dioxide (CO2) and waste materials present a promising solution.

CO2 & Waste-Derived Bioplastics: Pioneering Sustainable Manufacturing

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Remember new users are coming on daily, unsure of engagement. The more posts you like and reply to, the strong the platform becomes !

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Canada’s top military commander, Gen. Jennie Carigna:
"After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service, in their country."

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The Clean Energy Boom in Republican Districts Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be.

The clean energy boom is sparking billions of dollars in new investments and creating thousands of new jobs—in red districts, no less.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/c...

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Researchers create novel electro-biodiesel : The Daily Digest In Missouri, Washington University in St. Louis reported that researchers in the labs of Joshua Yuan, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Susie Dai, at the University of Missouri, used…

Researchers have used electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide and assistance of microbes to create an electro-biodiesel that is 45 times more efficient and uses 45 times less land than soybean-based biodiesel production.

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As everyone buys electric cars, gas stations appear to be getting clingy 😂

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Pls bluesky I need bookmarks I'm a chronic bookmarker I need this 😭🙏

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Unlocking Europe’s 8 Trillion€ Deep Tech Opportunity By 2030, Deep Tech value could reach $10T. Learn how innovation in AI, robotics, and biotech can secure Europe's global competitive edge and economic growth.

BCG report on #European #technology #industry and #deeptech opportunites. E.g. collaborations across #ecosystems - linking universities, corporates, and #startups - will be critical in transforming Europe into a deep tech leader, securing #growth and #sustainability. www.bcg.com/publications...

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♻️ 🦋 a little of each!

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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

I find in ClimateTech that a lot of the innovation and breakthroughs just make sense (using microorganisms and software to accelerate processes, for example) but Direct Air Capture just has always defied common sense for me. news.mit.edu/2024/reality...

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How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username?

On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username.

We just refreshed our how-to guide:

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whenever twitter servers went down it was stupid but when bluesky servers go down it’s just cute. like awe sorry we love you so much we know you’re doing your best

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European deeptech companies: Shaping the future of innovation Deeptech companies play a key role in shaping Europe's innovation leadership.

Great roundup of some European deeptech companies: Shaping the future of innovation

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it’s about to be a banner era for disinformation about renewable energy i’ll tell ya what

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say what you will about Bluesky's 21 million accounts, our network's one million users have 100% daily engagement rates and unlimited streaming.

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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

www.science.org/content/arti...

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Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.

"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."

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With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size.

At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

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This isn't realistic. The only (?) alternative is to develop technologies that reduce dependence on these critical #minerals. Fortunately, many such technologies are maturing and scaling up rapidly.

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Good advice - let’s end the ever-shallow “flex” of maximizing your followers to following ratio

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*taps mic*
Each year, I hear about all the reasons that EVs will fail, and each year sales keep going up.

On track for just under 17 million in 2024, in line with BNEF forecast's from the start of the year
about.bnef.com/blog/are-glo...

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New York's hottest club is ... J A G U A R

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If @stripmallguy.bsky.social is active on here you should check this out

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Installing E.V. Chargers is Finally Paying Off for Retailers Companies see charging as a potentially profitable business in and of itself, not just as a spur for foot traffic and sales.

Very very interesting. New piece by the @nytimes.com: “For Decades, Installing E.V. Chargers Didn’t Pay Off for Retailers. Now It Does.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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