Shail Khan

12 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2022 by Shayle Kann · said 33 times in 27 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Nov 17, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Kann: EIP closes $485M Frontier Fund for deep decarbonization
“We just announced this week that we at EAP had done the final close on what we call our frontier fund, which is what I've been working on for the past couple of years. It's a four hundred eighty five million dollar venture capital fund. Dedicated to investing …”
Shayle Kann Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 2:55 Fixing cement’s carbon problem
Mar 16, 2023
Assertion Supported
Kann: Fertilizer application drives more warming than ammonia production
“The production of ammonia is like one and a half percent of global greenhouse gas emissions on its own, but it's important to remember that the production of ammonia is actually a smaller proportion of radiative forcing, or it creates a smaller portion of radi…”
Shayle Kann Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 28:23 The greenhouse gas you don’t know about
Jan 11, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Khan: Most of the 40 climate SPACs were pre-revenue without commercial products
“I tracked at some point, I don't remember exactly what the number was, but like close to 40 companies that I would call climate tech companies that, that successfully merged with SPACs and de-SPACs became public companies. Most of them were pre-revenue and had…”
Shayle Kann Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 28:36 2023 climate tech venture investment trends
Jun 6, 2024 negative
Opinion
Kann: High power costs, not permitting, drive industrial projects from California
“The, I would say that the limiting factor that I've seen over and over again these days is not as much permitting as it is the cost of power, which is which has become insanely high in California, and that ends up like pushing people out of state more than any…”
Shayle Kann Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 57:56 Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
Jun 6, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kann: World could reach 1 TW of annual renewable additions this decade
“Yeah, we might have a terawatt year this decade. It's not crazy.”
Shayle Kann Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 1:00:27 Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
Nov 21, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Kann: Synthetic methane cannot be produced below $20–$30/MMBtu near term
“With today's costs of hydrogen, and today's costs of CO₂, or even the next few years costs of both, You know, it's hard to picture producing synthetic methane. Again, we haven't even talked about the capex here, but it's hard to imagine producing synthetic met…”
Shayle Kann Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 32:21 TEA breakdown: green ammonia and synthetic methane
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Insight
Kann: Demo offtake commitments harm technology optimization and learning
“The second you have a customer who's expecting the product, your incentives are misaligned a little bit because what you really need from an existential company perspective from the demo is to prove the technology and optimize it. What the customer needs is to…”
Shayle Kann Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 23:03 FOAK tales
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kann: Nearly every Californian knows someone whose homeowners insurance was dropped.
“In the case of California, everyone that I know is maximum one degree removed from someone whose homeowner's insurance was dropped, or at least had the price increased by some multiple.”
Shayle Kann Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 2:35 How climate disasters are shaping insurance markets
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Grid interconnection is faster than building new nuclear in most locations
“Most places you can get interconnected faster than you can build the new nuclear reactor.”
Shayle Kann Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 35:09 When to colocate data centers with generation
Feb 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kann predicts his four-year-old son will never get a driver's license
“One of the bets is that he will never drive a car. He'll never get a driver's license. I mean, he's growing up, you know, in kind of suburban Bay Area, California, so take that into account, because this is a specific bet to my son. But, you know, I think 12 y…”
Shayle Kann Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 8:24 Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kann: Batteries must grow 2x-3x faster than solar to reach equilibrium
“The implication to me is that batteries should be growing at roughly two to three times the rate that solar should to play catch up here. And so we have this, you know, we started off with this, like, very bullish solars meeting the vast majority of new, like,…”
Shayle Kann Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 36:03 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kann: US, China, and EU battery-to-solar ratios lag at 9% to 20%
“The U.S. Down at 20%. China down at 18%. The EU down at nine percent.”
Shayle Kann Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 35:57 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
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