What the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would mean for climatetech
The $369 billion climate and tax bill from Sen. Joe Manchin III and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer caught everyone by surprise. Democrats had abandoned their climate legislation last month after...
5 Aug 202257min
Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer
We're bringing you something different today. It's an episode of one of our favorite podcasts, called Watt It Takes hosted by Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse Ventures. We talk a lot on Catalyst about how...
28 Jul 202242min
Seeking the holy grail of batteries
If there were a holy grail of electric vehicle batteries, it would be low-weight, long-range, and fast-charging. It would last a million miles and cost less than anything produced today. So in the boo...
21 Jul 202251min
Crossing the valley of death
In climatetech, the ‘valley of death’ describes the lack of capital for newer solutions, especially those that mainstream investors view as unproven. The climate tech world is full of technologies tha...
14 Jul 202250min
The Carbon Copy: Get ready for the battery recycling boom
On the Carbon Copy podcast this week: It’s been over three months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves into global oil markets, causing supply constraints and skyrocketing prices. The co...
7 Jul 202221min
How to Save a Planet: Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?
It’s shark week! Or ‘spark’ week? Today we’re bringing you an episode of How to Save a Planet, in which Shayle steps into the shoes of a Shark Tank-style judge. This episode is all about (drum-roll pl...
1 Jul 202246min
Which tech is overhyped, underhyped and just right?
Within the climate tech world, technology hype is all over the map. In this episode, Lara Pierpoint, director of climate at Actuate, and Stephen Lacey, host of The Carbon Copy and executive producer o...
23 Jun 202250min
Making sense of solar engineering
In some climate circles, solar geoengineering is akin to a swear word. Also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), it means deliberately modifying the earth’s atmosphere to reflect solar radiati...
16 Jun 202243min
