Press Coverage
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Engineers drink to new energy storage material
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells. Read More
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Colorado Scientists Convert Brewery Wastewater Into Renewable Battery
As part of a new research, scientists have stumbled upon a hitherto-unknown major supercluster in the Vela constellation. Currently being called the Vela supercluster, this massive concentration of galaxies comes with a large gravitational force that, astronomers believe, might have a substantial effect on the motion of the 54 galaxies in the Local Group, including the Milky Way. Read More
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University of Colorado Boulder designs natural battery electrodes from beer wastewater
Creating energy from waste is a noble goal that a few forward-thinking craft breweries have already embraced. At New Belgium Brewing Co.'s on-site Process Water Treatment Plant in Fort Collins, Colo., the brewery uses microbes to clean all of its production wastewater through a series of aerobic (with air) and anaerobic (without air) basins. Read More
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Turning Beer Wastewater into Energy Storage Benefits Breweries, Battery Manufacturers
Beer wastewater can be converted to materials needed to make energy storage cells — a development that researchers say could be a “win-win” for breweries and battery manufacturers. Read More
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Engineers Find a Way to Make Batteries with Beer
Soon beer companies will be able to provide both the frosty beverage and the batteries to power the remote during football games. Read More
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From Beer to Energy: Researchers Turn Brewery Waste to Fuel Cell Technology
Researchers from Boulder, Colorado just came up with a unique way for turning brewery wastes into low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. Beer manufacturers are not allowed to dump these waste products into sewers as they require extra filtration. Now, however, this waste product just got a lot more useful. Read More
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Researchers Use Beer Byproduct to Create New Battery
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have turned brewery wastewater into battery power. The process uses biological organisms cultivated in the water to make the carbon-based materials required to create cells that store energy. Read More
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Colorado researchers turn beer waste into battery electrodes
In the beer-friendly state of Colorado, researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder have turned brewery runoff into something with a different sort of buzz: low-cost lithium-ion battery electrodes. Read More
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Colorado engineers use beer waste to fuel eco-friendly battery
We’ve seen breweries turn wastewater into drinkable beer but now scientists have turned one brewery’s dirty wastewater into energy. Read More
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Beer batteries: Colorado researchers use brewery wastewater to produce electrodes
Researchers in Colorado have found a way to use wastewater from brewing beer to produce lithium ion battery electrodes. Read More
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2024 Startup Milestones
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Director's Letter
Dear Friends of CRI, Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of the CRI newsletter. In it, you’ll see the breadth of our spring and summer activities. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to CRI’s newest cohort. Welcoming a new cohort is… Read More
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LEEP Demo Day 2024
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CRI Seeks Applicants for Next Cohort
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