A critical tool for scaling climate tech: insurance
We buy insurance for everything – our cars, our houses, our health. But climate tech insurance? That’s a new one. When Jeff McAulay was working in solar, he discovered one major roadblock to scaling...
17 Feb 202247min
The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in California
This week, we're featuring an episode of The Carbon Copy. Batteries are everywhere. In our electronics, our power tools, our electric grid, and in our cars. And almost all those batteries use a lithiu...
10 Feb 202220min
The future of the home solar market
There’s momentum building for electrification. But when will electrification take off as a mainstream movement? And what companies can provide electrification solutions to consumers at scale? One stro...
31 Jan 202246min
The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals
Chemicals might be the most daunting industrial sector to decarbonize. Unlike concrete and steel, where the end products are largely uniform, refineries spit out thousands of different chemicals throu...
24 Jan 20221h 6min
Microbes, meat and materials: biotech meets climatetech
Biotech has enormous potential across a wide array of climate solutions. It can be used to create alternative proteins, remove carbon from the atmosphere, clean up fertilizer, or to create renewable f...
18 Jan 202242min
Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
First-of-a-kind projects are, by definition, unproven. Despite the abundance of capital in climate tech these days, the valley of death for new technologies still exists. But there are solutions. And ...
10 Jan 202248min
Is nuclear fusion getting close?
The common trope about fusion is that it has always been – and will always be – a decade away. So is something different happening now? Recently, we’ve seen technical achievements in fusion, like near...
23 Dec 202147min
Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
What exactly counts as “climate tech”? Basically all human activity is responsible for emissions, directly or indirectly. So nearly every new technology trend or capability has at least some role to p...
16 Dec 202151min
