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every year anyone Sam Jaffe 20Anne-Sophie Corbeau 20Julio Friedmann 15Nat Bullard 13Shayle Kann 8Jeff Waters 6Hans Smit 5Stephen Lacey 4Lara Pierpoint 3Kurt Kelty 3
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The rise of metal fuels
- ▶ 40:11 Richard Wang You have abundant energy resources, places like the Western Sahara, with solar and wind, or Australia, or the Middle East, and capture all that ultra-low cost one cent per kilowatt hour energy into the form of the metals, and then very…
When will quantum computing have its breakout moment?
- ▶ 8:34 Bob Sorenson Now, imagine you are in Japan, and you go into a Plinko parlor, and you know, you have the thing where you, you drop a ball down, and it bounces all around, uh, those little pins that eventually falls into a slot.
How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 0:20 Shayle Kann This year, it's tracking somewhere around twelve million, more than Japan or Germany ever shipped at their peaks.
- ▶ 10:37 Michael Dunne We have a handful in Japan.
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 43:09 Nick Fulgham Uh, which is, which is where Europe or Japan or Korea need to get their gas from. 2 times in the scene
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
- ▶ 5:54 Stephen Lacey So you have a unique window into how battery markets play out around the world, from the UK to Texas to Japan. 4 times in the scene
Digging deep for super hot geothermal
- ▶ 8:41 Carlos Araque So the ring of fire wrapping from America to North America, to Alaska, to Japan, to Indonesia, to Philippines, all the way down to New Zealand, um,
More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump
- ▶ 19:00 Nat Bullard That's higher than the ratio for Japan ever was back in its, in its heyday.
GM's big new battery tech push
- ▶ 4:43 Kurt Kelty Um, I, I joined the battery industry about 30 years ago, and at that point we were moving all the manufacturing offshore to Japan.
- ▶ 13:14 Kurt Kelty Japan could be locations where you would do this. 2 times in the scene
What to make of Trump's deep-sea minerals push
What’s next for the battery storage boom? [partner content]
- ▶ 0:22 Jeff Waters The Japanese, however, were making significant gains. 6 times in the scene
Serving data center load with carbon capture
- ▶ 26:15 Julio Friedmann Even though they don't have natural gas resources, look to Japan and Korea.
- ▶ 33:15 Julio Friedmann And if we don't, these other countries, like the Middle East and Japan, are ready to go.
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
- ▶ 33:06 Nat Bullard I, I don't, so we're of the age when we remember the fear that Japan Auto and Japan Auto Inc. was going to take over the world's auto manufacturing capacity. 3 times in the scene
2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal
- ▶ 19:15 Nat Bullard In fact, as of, like, 2007, Japan was still a bigger oil importer than China, if we can believe it, right? 2 times in the scene
Getting heat pumps right
- ▶ 9:10 Paul Lambert So a lot of Japanese companies, Mitsubishi, Daikin, Fujitsu are all quite popular.
DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale
- ▶ 38:41 Andreas Apley The SBTI guidance, uh, hopefully will include much more concrete steps on short-term targets for carbon removals, and we see the first beginnings of a compliance market evolving, for example, in Japan, in the UK, um, there's good,
Pathways to decarbonizing steel
- ▶ 39:01 Rebecca Dell Cleveland Cliffs, and then other kind of, like, big steel-producing geographies include Japan, South Korea, and, uh, the European Union, especially Germany.
The EV market’s awkward teenage years
- ▶ 28:56 Gene Berdichevsky The U.S. has a lot of gigafactories being built by, you know, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, uh, battery producers.
Going deep on next-gen geothermal
- ▶ 6:02 Dr. Roland Horne So, um, the, the, the resources that have been developed in the countries I mentioned, you know, Kenya, California, and many others, Iceland, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, they're all in volcanically active, uh, margins of…
- ▶ 25:29 Dr. Roland Horne They drilled one in Japan, or perhaps more, um, and they've attempted to do it in Ladarello in, in Italy too.
Demystifying the Chinese EV market
- ▶ 35:06 TP Huang (TP Wang) It will be very interesting to see over the next few years how countries will be affected by this, because if you think about Japan and Germany, auto industry is such a huge part of their economy.
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
- ▶ 26:41 Drew Baglino Yeah, there's no growth included, which you could definitely say is a, is a, um, is, is unfair in the analysis, but, but I think we tried to be, we tried to avoid stating a growth rate, um, a global growth rate, because, you know, there…
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 11:35 Colin Grabow Well, the data suggests, actually, that workers in South Korea and Japan and Europe, they make more than Americans, and yet the ships are still significantly cheaper, so that's interesting.
The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?
- ▶ 24:18 Dan Steingart In Korea, in China, in Japan, it's where most of the manufacturing happens.
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 11:28 Nat Bullard Um, you know, there are other markets like Japan and Canada, uh, but it's also important to note that, like, sustainable fund flows in general are pretty rank fenced to, like, a small number of total markets.
2024 trends: batteries, transferable tax credits, and the cost of capital
- ▶ 39:06 Nat Bullard But yeah, look, it's, it's China in first and second, it's South Korea in third and fifth, it's Japan in fourth, 2 times in the scene
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
- ▶ 17:17 Sam Jaffe So, so my company, Adionics, is building a factory in the U.S., and we need to use, we need to purchase Japanese and Korean equipment, but interestingly, there's specific language in here about control software that, for that equipment,…
- ▶ 23:55 Sam Jaffe Yeah, I think internationally, there's certainly been a big, uh, disagreement from coming, especially from Europe and Japan, from Western Europe and, and, and Eastern Europe, uh, the UK and Japan, which are, all of which are strong US… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:33 Sam Jaffe I wouldn't say it removes it, but it, it, it does place it on a level playing field with building a new plant in Korea or, or with Japan in the case of the new, uh, the new treaty with Japan. 6 times in the scene
The cost of nuclear
- ▶ 10:24 Jessica Lovering I think, unlike what happened in the U.S., there were still places, like, that had big nuclear fleets building in the nineties and early 2000, like France and Japan kept building nuclear, but places like the U.S., which still has the…
- ▶ 44:48 Jessica Lovering So I live in California, and seeing, you know, Diablo Canyon was supposed to shut down, um, this year and next year, and seeing a very liberal democratic governor change, uh, change the plan for nuclear in California, I think that's a big…
The Volts crossover episode
- ▶ 7:40 Shayle Kann So let me, let me contextualize a little bit, which is, you know, I know you were around for the whole solar story as solar was just starting to mature, but like the, the short version of that story in my mind, if you go way back in solar… 2 times in the scene
Beaming 24/7 solar… from space
- ▶ 39:24 Sanjay Vijendran And, uh, and Japan is intending to do a demonstration in twenty-twenty-five, so they've just announced that they're, they've got funding to work on a, on a demo mission, and these are subscale demos.
The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport
- ▶ 7:50 Anne-Sophie Corbeau But there are also a couple of countries like Japan, like Korea, like Singapore, who have also said, yes, we are going to import hydrogen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Anne-Sophie Corbeau It has been done only once between Australia and Japan, so you can already see, you know, the kind of trips that we are envisaging, and it was done at the very beginning of, um,
- ▶ 17:14 Anne-Sophie Corbeau The Japanese, I think, are using carbon-neutral gas or LNG because they are going to import LNG. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Uh, you know, one of the few examples that I know of an actual trial is, for example, exports from Brunei to Japan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:06 Anne-Sophie Corbeau There are some people who are considering that for other applications, but ammonia has also potential applications, at least according to the Japanese, in the power generation sector. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:46 Anne-Sophie Corbeau For the others, for Singapore, for Japan, definitely for Japan and Korea, this is a little bit problematic, because if you remember what happened with natural gas, you know, they import LNG and not a single drop of pipeline gas.
- ▶ 40:58 Anne-Sophie Corbeau I mean, you know, are they just going to get the money from these hydrogen projects, and you have a bunch of people from Europe or from Japan who are going to come and say, hey, I'm taking the renewable energy, I'm transforming hydrogen,…
Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition
- ▶ 19:24 Cristobal Undurraga And then Germany, Japan, and developed nations consume roughly a million tons per year.
What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
- ▶ 9:09 Sam Jaffe Yeah, I think internationally, there's certainly been a big, uh, disagreement from coming, especially from Europe and Japan, from Western Europe and, and, and Eastern Europe, uh, the UK and Japan, which are all of which are strong U.S.… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 Sam Jaffe I wouldn't say it removes it, but it, it, it does place it on a level playing field with building a new plant in Korea or, or with Japan in the case of the new, uh, the new treaty with Japan. 6 times in the scene
2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more
- ▶ 20:48 Nat Bullard At that scale, not only bigger than Europe, it's like about the size of Japan in terms of total demand for electricity.
- ▶ 37:50 Nat Bullard Uh, and then Japan Panasonic, uh, comes in, comes in fourth with like half of what BYD does. 3 times in the scene
Natural gas whiplash
- ▶ 8:15 Anne-Sophie Corbeau You know, when Fukushima happened, suddenly Japan needed a lot of natural gas in order to replace nuclear generation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Anne-Sophie Corbeau I need to get LNG as soon as possible because my stocks are really declining, and you have to understand that in Japan, Korea, but also China, they do not have as much storage as we do have in Europe and the US. 2 times in the scene
Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
- ▶ 15:04 Julio Friedmann Basically, the government of Japan has said, we will buy low carbon ammonia at a premium, and we will use it to decarbonize our existing infrastructure. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Shayle Kann Some, you know, import ammonia into, say, somewhere like Japan, and then burn it for power, or perhaps, and I think this makes less sense, but just use ammonia as a hydrogen carrier, ship it around as ammonia, crack it back into hydrogen,…
- ▶ 31:12 Julio Friedmann Um, for petrochemicals, it'll be harder because those are really built for hydrogen or natural gas, and so for a big petrochemical plant, say, in Singapore, you're more likely, I think, to go with ammonia cracking and use hydrogen in the…
- ▶ 40:55 Julio Friedmann It is also the case that the markets are places like Japan. 2 times in the scene
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
- ▶ 39:29 Jenny Chase And, um, and it's somewhat constrained in Japan as well.
What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
- ▶ 27:50 Gnevamir Fleece So we, in Japan, we've seen liquefied hydrogen. 2 times in the scene
Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player?
- ▶ 31:54 Lara Pierpoint As a random aside, I was in a, in a town in northern Japan one time where they have a hot spring, and they run hot springs water underneath all the streets throughout the town, which is just the coolest thing.
Seeking the holy grail of batteries
- ▶ 8:39 Sam Jaffe They were mostly made in Korea and Japan.
- ▶ 49:38 Shayle Kann We've seen that story play out in other industries, but meanwhile, in, in EV batteries, you know, it is, there's still also a ton coming out of Japan and Korea, uh,
The great rush for battery metals
- ▶ 50:42 Kurt House So North America, Japan, Australia, the EU, uh, is pretty strong.
Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
- ▶ 14:26 Jesse Jenkins Has, you know, become a globally traded commodity, and so if Europe needs more gas, they have to outbid Korea and Japan and everyone else, and so prices start to go, you know, through the roof.
- ▶ 22:23 Jesse Jenkins There's no one willing to pick it up and take it to, um, you know, take it to Europe or take it to Japan or take it elsewhere.
- ▶ 35:15 Jesse Jenkins The question is whether we're going to see that same kind of realization here in the United States that, hey, even though we are big oil exporters, it would be a lot better and a lot more impactful, honestly, in the near term from a…
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
- ▶ 3:30 Lara Pierpoint Meanwhile, safety, waste and security concerns are derailing formerly stalwart nuclear industries in Japan and Germany.
- ▶ 9:36 Jake DeWitt Um, and then over, you know, sort of around the world over in Asia, Japan's kind of continually evaluating how they're going to be approaching nuclear power going forward, kind of with a mix of retiring some plants, keeping some operating,…
- ▶ 12:05 Lara Pierpoint We talk about safety, which is certainly driving a lot of the concerns in Japan, particularly after the Fukushima disaster.
Is nuclear fusion getting close?
- ▶ 39:20 Shayle Kann I mean, to me, that was sort of most obvious place for fusion is like, how are you going to decarbonize, uh, the grid in Singapore or Japan? 2 times in the scene
A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- ▶ 1:45 Shayle Kann If it were a country, its emissions would rank around sixth in the world, somewhere between Japan and Germany.
- ▶ 4:29 Dan Rutherford So a little bit larger than Germany, somewhat smaller than Japan.