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Heliogen, Backed By Bill Gates, Idealab and Nantworks, Aims At Solar Thermal

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The company--led by Idealab founder and chairman Bill Gross--also has the financial backing of Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; Neotribe and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, via Nant Capital, a division of NantWorks. The company's pilot plant is in Lancaster. READ MORE>>.

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Nexus eWater Gets $2.1M For Water, Energy Recycling Device

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The company--which has offices in Lancaster, but is based in Australia--has created a device which takes greywater from homes, and both cleans that water for use in irrigation and captures heat from that water. Photo: the company''s systems in Lancaster). READ MORE>>.

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Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing

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Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator.

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Mate Fertility is aiming to create a franchise of fertility clinics open to everyone

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The company said it would offer egg freezing services for as low as $5,000 and IVF for $9,400*, while the national average for IVF cycle costs ranges from $15,000 to $18,000, including medication. ” Given the fact that the company estimates roughly 18% of the U.S. Lancaster, Pa., Bakersfield, Calif. Austin, and Portland.

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