Hydropower

topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 4 episodes

Catalyst the Green Blueprint 20VC

7 statements about Hydropower, every show

Supercool Earth targets water districts and hydropower before agricultural expansion
“We're also targeting water districts and hydropower, because that makes a lot of sense. That's where a lot of cloud seeding is done in, in the U.S. Today, that is silver iodide based. So we would, there's already existing customers in that space. And then our …”
Dacia Leone May 20, 2026 ▶ 26:45 How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Weitzman: Hydroelectric capacity is fully maxed out globally
“So all the dams that can be dammed have been dammed. Hydro power is like the most efficient and easiest way to create. We just don't have ability to invest in hydro more.”
Cliff Weitzman May 9, 2026 ▶ 1:28:19 Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Partly supported
Hamilton: Only geothermal and biomass satisfy California's clean firm baseload mandate
“When you don't have that, so what California is facing right now, and they're saying, all right, we're going to get 2000 megawatts of clean, firm baseload, really the only two resources that will fit that are geothermal and biomass, because hydropower in Calif…”
Katherine Hamilton Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 12:37 How to triple renewables by 2030
CATALYST Assertion Supported
Schneider: Global operating hydropower capacity is roughly 1.3 terawatts
“Today we have about 1.3 terawatts of installed operating hydropower. And that represents about the it's the majority of renewable energy produced in the world today. It's the third largest source of electricity after natural gas and coal.”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 4:44 How to build more hydropower
CATALYST Insight
Schneider: Scaling hydro requires shifting from megaprojects to distributed projects
“The way in which we're going to increase capacity is, we firmly believe, A shift that moves away from just building megaprojects, and instead looks at building projects that are more distributed in nature, and, which means smaller by moving to smaller projects…”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 19:01 How to build more hydropower
CATALYST Insight
Schneider: Dam ecological impact depends on water flow design, not size
“That again, as we've dug into this more, is that there, it does, it seems very clear as you dig into the science around the fact that there are small dams that have major negative impacts. It's not a size thing. You could have big dams, you could have small da…”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 26:46 How to build more hydropower
CATALYST Assertion Supported
Schneider: 2022 was a strong hydro year due to Pacific Northwest output
“Hydro, despite the West being in an overall drought, it was a pretty great year for hydropower, and it was because the conditions for hydro in the Pacific Northwest were solid, and those assets were able to, were, you know, played a critical role, frankly, in …”
Gia Schneider Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 35:03 How to build more hydropower

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