| $9.2T | “9.2 trillion dollars” | Jacobs: Even the US lacks human capacity to deploy needed climate capital | Scott Jacobs | Jul 14, 2022 | — |
| $7T | “seven trillion dollars” | Bordoff: 2040 mineral revenue will pale in comparison to oil and gas | Jason Bordoff | Apr 11, 2024 | Supported |
| $5T | “five trillion dollars” | House: Light-duty EV transition requires $5 trillion in new copper discoveries | Kurt House | Apr 21, 2022 | — |
| $5T | “five trillion dollars” | Pierpoint: Global insurance sector is worth $5 trillion | Lara Pierpoint | Feb 17, 2022 | Supported |
| $3T | “three trillion dollars” | Bullard: Europe holds 84% of global sustainable assets under management | Nat Bullard | Feb 15, 2024 | Supported |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Matthew: Europe holds 80% of $2T global ESG fund AUM | Shanu Matthew | Mar 14, 2024 | Supported |
| $1.5T | “half a trillion dollars” | Matthew: AI capital expenditures have reached half a trillion dollars a year | Shanu Matthew | Dec 4, 2025 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Fury: Voluntary carbon market transacted $2B compared to $850B compliance markets | Alistair Frew (Alistair Fury) | Jun 8, 2023 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Yergin: European wholesale power costs will exceed $1 trillion in 2022 | Dr. Daniel Yergin | Sep 22, 2022 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Ransohoff: A $1 Trillion Voluntary Carbon Removal Market Is Highly Unlikely | Nan Ransohoff | Nov 18, 2021 | — |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Yeh: The DOE Loan Programs Office holds $400 billion post-IRA | David Yeh | Dec 21, 2023 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Jenkins: IRA Will Drive $200B+ Investment Into Energy Communities by 2030 | Jesse Jenkins | Aug 5, 2022 | Open |
| $100B | “hundred billion dollars” | Jenkins: IRA Will Drive $200B+ Investment Into Energy Communities by 2030 | Jesse Jenkins | Aug 5, 2022 | Open |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Bullard: US EV value chain announcements reached $70B in 2022 | Nat Bullard | Mar 2, 2023 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Friedmann: Global ammonia market is 180 million tons and $60 billion annually | Julio Friedmann | Jan 5, 2023 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Bullard: Global carbon markets reached $850B in 2021, dominated by EU ETS | Nat Bullard | Mar 24, 2022 | Supported |
| $55B | “fifty five billion dollars” | Bullard: North American compliance carbon markets reached $55B in 2021 | Nat Bullard | Mar 24, 2022 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Eliahu-Ontiveros: Google deployed $50B in balance sheet backstops for Anthropic | Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros | Jul 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Shafer: US Nuclear Waste Fund holds roughly $50 billion in unspent fees | Dr. Jen Shafer (Jen Schaefer) | Mar 26, 2026 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Grunwald: Cultivated meat industry has raised only $3B in cumulative investment | Mike Grunwald | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Yergin: European wholesale power costs will exceed $1 trillion in 2022 | Dr. Daniel Yergin | Sep 22, 2022 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Bullard: Global carbon markets reached $850B in 2021, dominated by EU ETS | Nat Bullard | Mar 24, 2022 | Supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Wang: Global diesel generator and fuel market is $30B to $40B annually | Richard Wang | Aug 27, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Bullard: US energy storage investment now surpasses wind investment | Nat Bullard | Feb 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Kann: DOE Loan Programs Office has $40B capacity, backed Monolith with $1B+ | Shayle Kann | Jan 10, 2022 | Supported |
| $39B | “thirty-nine billion dollars” | Houser: $39B is the floor for clean tech manufacturing investment over next 12 months | Trevor Houser | Oct 12, 2023 | Held up |
| $35B | “thirty-five billion dollars” | Google's 2026 CapEx is 5-7x the entire US transmission spend | Shayle Kann | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| $32B | “Thirty-two billion dollars” | Zou: Climate tech venture funding fell 30% to $32B in 2023 | Kim Zou | Jan 11, 2024 | Supported |
| $27B | “twenty-seven billion dollars” | Lee: Securitizing local GGRF loans on Wall Street can unlock hundreds of billions | Amanda Lee | Aug 13, 2024 | — |
| $26B | “twenty six billion dollars” | Bullard: North American compliance carbon markets reached $55B in 2021 | Nat Bullard | Mar 24, 2022 | Supported |
| $20B | “Twenty billion dollars” | Yedvab: Halting global warming would cost $20 billion annually using Stardust | Yanai Yedvab | Jul 1, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Garaman: Rare earths are a $20B market that unlocks trillions downstream | Ahmad Ghahreman | Apr 25, 2024 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Bullard: U.S. sustainable funds saw five consecutive quarters of outflows | Nat Bullard | Feb 15, 2024 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Shah: DOE LPO has $15B in proposed sustainable aviation fuel applications | Jigar Shah | Apr 28, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | First Movers Coalition secured $12 billion in 2030 clean technology commitments | Varun Sivaram | Dec 15, 2022 | Partly supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Yedvab: 0.5 degrees of cooling costs $10 billion using Stardust particles | Yanai Yedvab | Jul 1, 2026 | — |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Kimber: Intersect Power is project financing about $9B of capex | Sheldon Kimber | Feb 13, 2025 | — |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Bullard: US energy startup investment dropped from over $8B in 2022 to $2B in 2025 | Nat Bullard | Jan 22, 2026 | Supported |
| $7B | “seven billion dollars” | Indiana Anti-ESG Bill Could Cost State Pension Fund $7 Billion | Stephen Lacey | Mar 8, 2023 | Partly supported |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | Mature SMR capital costs will reach $10,000 per kilowatt | Chris Colbert | May 9, 2025 | — |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Cantor: Only 4% of the $5B federal NEVI EV charging funds have been awarded | Corey Cantor | Feb 1, 2024 | Supported |
| $4.9B | “4.9 billion dollars” | MacDonald: PG&E increased wildfire budget by $4.9B from 2021 to 2023 | Katie MacDonald | Sep 5, 2024 | Contradicted |
| $4.1B | “4.1 billion dollars” | Kann: BP Acquired Archaea Energy for $4.1B at Double Its Debut Price | Shayle Kann | Mar 23, 2023 | Supported |
| $3.7B | “3.7 billion dollars” | Spector: Redwood Materials raised $700M at a $3.7B valuation | Julian Spector | Jul 7, 2022 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Grunwald: Cultivated meat industry has raised only $3B in cumulative investment | Mike Grunwald | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| $2.1B | “2.1 billion dollars” | Bullard: Voluntary carbon credit issuance has dropped by half since 2021 | Nat Bullard | Jan 30, 2025 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Tillis claims Biden's Keystone XL cancellation destroyed two billion dollars of capital | Tom Tillis | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Smit: Ocean Minerals project will yield ~$500M annual free cash flow | Hans Smit | May 22, 2025 | Open |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Schneider: The infrastructure bill allocated ~$2.5B for hydropower upgrades and development | Gia Schneider | Apr 20, 2023 | Contradicted |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Pierpoint: Hurricane Andrew caused $15.5B in damage and bankrupted 16 insurers | Lara Pierpoint | Feb 17, 2022 | Supported |
| $1.4B | “1.4 billion dollars” | Kann: Cleantech 1.0 deep tech Series A returned $153M on $1.4B | Shayle Kann | Nov 11, 2021 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Kann: Base Power raised $1B Series C at $4B valuation | Shayle Kann | Oct 9, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Fernandez: Infrastructure investors in FOAK assets play for follow-on platform scale | Mario Fernandez | Jan 16, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Matthew: SolarEdge quarterly revenue plummeted from nearly $1B to $300M | Shanu Matthew | Mar 14, 2024 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Kim Zou: Oxy's $1B Carbon Engineering buyout is the first DAC unicorn | Kim Zou | Jan 11, 2024 | Supported |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | Kugelmass: No entity has completed NRC licensing for under $1 billion | Brett Kugelmass | Feb 16, 2023 | Supported |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | NRC added 1,200 pages of new regulations despite congressional streamlining mandate | Brett Kugelmass | Feb 16, 2023 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Beard: $1 billion could launch every active geothermal startup into field testing | Jamie Beard | Sep 9, 2022 | — |
| $800M | “eight hundred million dollars” | Google and TPG inject $800M into Intersect Power for co-located generation | Shayle Kann | Feb 13, 2025 | Supported |
| $700M | “seven hundred million dollars” | Leading scientific supercomputers cost up to $700M plus $300M in power | Bob Sorenson | Jul 16, 2026 | Supported |
| $700M | “seven hundred million dollars” | Grabow: U.S. LNG Tankers Cost $700M to Build Versus Under $200M in South Korea | Colin Grabow | Apr 18, 2024 | Supported |
| $700M | “seven hundred million dollars” | Spector: Redwood Materials raised $700M at a $3.7B valuation | Julian Spector | Jul 7, 2022 | Supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Bayes: Projects with $500M+ tax credit tranches grew from two to dozens | Katie Bayes | Apr 6, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Smit: Ocean Minerals project will yield ~$500M annual free cash flow | Hans Smit | May 22, 2025 | Open |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Friedmann: Moving 1M tons of ammonia in Galveston requires $500M in storage | Julio Friedmann | Jan 5, 2023 | Supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Spector: Li-Cycle raised over $500M in SPAC plus subsequent strategic capital | Julian Spector | Jul 7, 2022 | Supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Kann: General Fusion, Helion, and Commonwealth Fusion raise massive private funding rounds | Shayle Kann | Dec 23, 2021 | Supported |
| $400M | “four hundred million dollars” | Moss Landing battery fire caused $400M in insurance losses | Jamie Daggett | Oct 15, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Leading scientific supercomputers cost up to $700M plus $300M in power | Bob Sorenson | Jul 16, 2026 | Supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Black: New Mexico SIC created $300M+ advanced energy fund with Lowercarbon | Rob Black | Nov 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Matthew: SolarEdge quarterly revenue plummeted from nearly $1B to $300M | Shanu Matthew | Mar 14, 2024 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Garaman: DoD awarded Lynas over $200M for Texas rare earth refining capacity | Ahmad Ghahreman | Apr 25, 2024 | Supported |
| $153M | “one hundred fifty three million dollars” | Kann: Cleantech 1.0 deep tech Series A returned $153M on $1.4B | Shayle Kann | Nov 11, 2021 | Supported |
| $130M | “one hundred thirty million dollars” | Kann: General Fusion, Helion, and Commonwealth Fusion raise massive private funding rounds | Shayle Kann | Dec 23, 2021 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Bayes: Tax credit purchases reduce corporate effective tax rates by roughly 3% | Katie Bayes | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Fernandez: Infrastructure investors in FOAK assets play for follow-on platform scale | Mario Fernandez | Jan 16, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Scheyder: ExxonMobil has invested over $100M in Smackover lithium extraction | Ernest Scheyder | Jan 2, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Garaman: DoD awarded Vacuumschmelze $100M for a South Carolina magnet manufacturing facility | Ahmad Ghahreman | Apr 25, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Mills: Building a new transformer plant costs $100M and takes 1-2 years | Tim Mills | Feb 22, 2024 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Johnson: Traditional tax equity was only economically viable above $50M to $100M | Alfred Johnson | Feb 20, 2024 | Supported |
| $87M | “eighty-seven million dollars” | Ellis: Sublime Systems received $87M DOE OSED demonstration grant | Leah Ellis | Oct 17, 2024 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | NextEra plans 100-mile Mid-Atlantic transmission line across PJM | Maeve Allsup | Jun 25, 2026 | Supported |
| $50M | “Fifty million dollars” | Datar: Lack of shared facilities in cultivated meat causes redundant capital waste | Isha Datar | Feb 27, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Beard: 20 geothermal startups are stranded needing $30M–$50M for demonstration projects | Jamie Beard | Sep 9, 2022 | — |
| $35M | “thirty-five million dollars” | Shah: Full VPP software integration costs roughly $35 million per utility | Jigar Shah | May 23, 2024 | Open |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Frader-Thompson: Spending $20M on software before launching a VPP is backwards | Seth Frader-Thompson | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| $12M | “twelve million dollars” | Bayes: Tax credit purchases reduce corporate effective tax rates by roughly 3% | Katie Bayes | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| $5.5M | “5.5 million dollars” | Bullard: DeepSeek was funded with $5.5M from a Chinese hedge fund | Nat Bullard | Feb 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Johnson: A $10M stimulated hydrogen well needs $5M annual output | Pete Johnson | Aug 23, 2024 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Shah: LPO due diligence costs climate tech borrowers up to $2M | Jigar Shah | Jan 10, 2022 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Bullard: Sub-$1M transferable tax credits trade at 84–86 cents per dollar | Nat Bullard | Feb 8, 2024 | Supported |
| $250K | “quarter million dollars” | Wong: Transmission interconnection studies take 6-9 months and cost $250K | Josh Wong | Aug 20, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Wang: Diesel generator hardware costs $500 to $800 per kilowatt | Richard Wang | Aug 27, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Siegel: The cost to build combined-cycle gas plants doubled or tripled | Paul Siegel | Feb 12, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Siegel: Forward power prices topped $1,000/MWh ahead of recent storm | Paul Siegel | Feb 12, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Garabedian: Electric Hydrogen prices European plants just over $1,000/kW installed | Rafi Garabedian | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Grunwald: Average American Discards Over $1,000 in Food Annually | Mike Grunwald | Jan 23, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $1K | “A thousand dollars” | Vijendran: Space solar becomes economically viable below $1,000 per kilo launch costs | Sanjay Vijendran | Aug 10, 2023 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Gramlich: Grid interconnection times and costs have more than doubled | Rob Gramlich | May 4, 2023 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Schroeder: Power tool batteries still cost roughly $1,000 per kWh at retail | Dave Schroeder | Mar 17, 2022 | Supported |
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