Stephen Lacey
person on 2 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 170 times in 158 episodes since 2021
Catalyst 123 
the Green Blueprint 48
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Catalyst 123the Green Blueprint 48
2026 52 mentions in 44 episodes 1 per episode
- Burying trees to save forests?
- The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall
- Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?
- The missing capital for climate startups: more debt
- The ‘brutal reality’ of scaling low-carbon fertilizer
- Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- Why the climate tech ‘missing middle’ is a massive opportunity
- The perovskite bet that could transform solar
- 36 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 69 mentions in 65 episodes 1 per episode
- Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
- The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers
- This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- Will inference move to the edge?
- Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions
- Can AI revolutionize EPC?
- 57 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 16 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- What went wrong at Northvolt?
- A complex path for building heat batteries
- The risk of scaling 100x
- Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- Fixing the refrigerant problem
- Why are we still flaring gas?
- Hunting for geologic hydrogen
- Pathways to decarbonizing steel
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2022 24 mentions in 24 episodes 1 per episode
- Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
- Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer
- Making sense of solar engineering
- From biowaste to “biogold”
- Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access
- Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data
- How will the downturn affect climate tech?
- Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Is nuclear fusion getting close?
- Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
- The future of natural gas
- A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- Kickstarting a $1 trillion market for carbon removal
- Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
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6 statements about Stephen Lacey, every show
Lacey: Existing tech can deliver 80% of needed carbon reductions
“Most experts believe we already have the technologies to hit 80% of the carbon reductions needed to stabilize global temperatures.”
Lacey: Geologic hydrogen startup Koloma raised $245 million
“And just this month, a thirty-person startup called Kalama just raised two hundred and forty-five million dollars.”
Lacey: TV climate reporting still really sucks
“And in television news, where reporters rush from disaster to disaster with little context, or just put everything in a political context, climate reporting still really sucks, frankly.”
Gas industry paid influencers to promote gas stoves over electric alternatives
“The gas industry has paid experts to testify at regulatory hearings, paid influencers to promote the use of gas stoves over electric ones, Even made corny music videos hammering the message home.”
Musk financed Twitter deal with $12.5B in Tesla stock collateral
“Because this deal is being financed by 12 and a half billion dollars of Tesla stock, the banks are holding that stock as collateral for the Twitter deal, and if his shares continue to fall, he has to sell those shares, and if he continues to sell those shares,…”
Lacey: US energy insecurity is driven by housing and racism, not supply
“In the richest country in the world, we still have tens of millions of people who don't have access to reliable energy, or who can't pay their energy bills. And that's not an energy availability problem. It's a housing problem. And it's a racism problem.”