Japan, every mention
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every year 2026 anyone Sam Jaffe 20Anne-Sophie Corbeau 20Julio Friedmann 15Nat Bullard 13Shayle Kann 8Jeff Waters 6Hans Smit 5Stephen Lacey 4Lara Pierpoint 3Kurt Kelty 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
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.