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Burying trees to save forests?
- ▶ 6:59 Lara Pierpoint Something like 40% of western forests in the United States will just be straight up gone by 2100 because they are going to be victims of this, as you define it, like, bad fire where it's, like, so sterilizing the ground that these trees…
- ▶ 12:04 Grant Canary And like, it's like, one of the biggest timber companies in, in the US.
- ▶ 15:59 Grant Canary The thing that was clear, though, is we were more consumptive of seed, and growing and building in the space, like, our assumption was that there is a plentiful seed supply because both, like, the U.S. and Canada have a very large timber…
- ▶ 27:13 Grant Canary And so what we, um, were focused on was taking, doing a carbon credit project with planting in the U.S.
The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall
- ▶ 22:45 Liz Dennett Living as an American citizen, my critical mineral footprint is orders of magnitude greater than someone living in a developing nation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:14 Liz Dennett The value that will help define where the U.S. gets its copper, and we've been definitely focused on the latter. 3 times in the scene
Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?
- ▶ 6:48 Jake Jurowicz Uh, very few other power generation technologies do that, but I think one of the, the most interesting attributes of nuclear that is really getting recognized, particularly outside the U.S., is it's probably the only technology that can…
- ▶ 12:23 Jake Jurowicz Most of the cost and why nuclear has historically been so expensive in the West, and it is primarily a Western problem in the U.S. and Europe when you look at data on this, and to put some numbers on it, Vogel, the most recently built… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:22 Jake Jurowicz Yeah, so we, I always like, when you try to solve these sorts of hard problems, I always like to look at where you can learn from adjacent industries, and so we've been inspired in particular by, because when you ask this question, okay,…
- ▶ 28:21 Lara Pierpoint Like so many things also across the climate sector, it's like you take the challenges for one climate technology, and then you multiply everything by a hundred for the nuclear world, and I think we've had a bit of a cultural challenge,… 2 times in the scene
The missing capital for climate startups: more debt
- ▶ 6:33 Dimitri Gershenson The folks in the space pointed to one big problem, which is the lack of early to mid-stage private credit and climate, and particularly in the US.
- ▶ 20:40 Dimitri Gershenson Um, I'm pretty sure that if you look at the data for how much money flows into climate in the US, like, VC is not the dominant.
Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- ▶ 3:52 Mateo Jaramillo Longer duration and, and by direct implication, therefore much lower cost, um, because, uh, absent that cost point and therefore duration, um, you, you really can't compete with, uh, with gas, uh, which is sort of the, the, the large…
- ▶ 17:08 Lara Pierpoint Um, so you all made the very clear decision to manufacture in the United States. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 Mateo Jaramillo Um, and additionally, we won a hundred fifty million dollar grant from the, um, Department of Energy in the US, uh, for the CapEx equipment.
The perovskite bet that could transform solar
- ▶ 7:35 Saritha Paruri And then you've also, in the U.S., have cadmium telluride through First Solar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 Saritha Paruri Um, and so that's what we are, you know, in the next couple months we're gonna be kicking off paid pilots with, um, almost a dozen customers, uh, here in the U.S. between utilities and IPPs.
- ▶ 34:44 Saritha Paruri Um, I don't know, future proof in terms of ITC, because if the ITC gets extended, then great, that 10% domestic content bonus stays, and every customer I talk to, like, the first question they ask me is, is it made in the U.S.? 4 times in the scene
How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
- ▶ 1:01 Lara Pierpoint The U.S. has used this technique to increase rainfall for agriculture, and it could work for snowfall, too.
- ▶ 17:55 Dacia Leone Either in this off season or the next U.S. winter season.
- ▶ 26:49 Dacia Leone That's where a lot of cloud seeding is done in, in the U.S. today, that is silver iodide based.
- ▶ 30:00 Lara Pierpoint So is that mostly in the United States, or where globally does this happen?
- ▶ 30:09 Dacia Leone In the United States, it's not used very much, so it's generally used in, to augment snowpack for water districts and hydropower plants. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 Dacia Leone There are nine states in the US that already have weather modification infrastructure, and so we are able to essentially plug in, plug it, plug into that, and the other piece is the FAA regulations as well.
- ▶ 36:21 Dacia Leone And then sure, worst case scenario, I am wrong, and the U.S. bans it.
The $6 trillion threat to climate tech finance
- ▶ 5:37 Lara Pierpoint And I think, you know, from my perspective, I see a lot of companies that understand that they need to engage with and understand United States politics and policy, that that's really a critical piece of, uh, of the puzzle that's gonna… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:16 Susan Su That are happening all across the world, and especially here on U.S. soil.
- ▶ 14:41 Susan Su Germany, Norway, Japan, Canada, United States, all of those are up against China, and just those four economies are 40%.
- ▶ 33:42 Lara Pierpoint Well, I'm curious to get your sense on how this is going to affect Europe in particular, because a lot of the, the US-based companies that I know of are really looking to Europe now as a place to deploy because they're being seen as more… 2 times in the scene
Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- ▶ 2:45 Lara Pierpoint There are enough geothermal heat resources in the United States to meet the electricity needs of the entire world, but much of these resources are in areas that are inaccessible to traditional geothermal drilling.
- ▶ 4:57 Lara Pierpoint Of course, batteries are our dominant storage technology across the U.S., but they're not as cost-effective for long-duration storage.
- ▶ 11:11 Lara Pierpoint This is an issue across the U.S. is that it takes forever to get permission to connect to the grid. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:31 Lara Pierpoint Like, would this work for seasonal storage in the United States, or is there kind of like a decay time to how much you're able to use the storage when it's under pressure like that?
- ▶ 25:22 Cindy Taff The geothermal, geothermal industry, which drills, you know, anywhere from, say, 30 to 50 wells a year, and the, and this is in the U.S., and the oil and gas industry, which drills, you know, 20 to 30,000 wells a year, did not, did not,…
Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions
- ▶ 25:32 Phil Goodman Their plans are to plant, I think it's thirty-five million trees across five different states in the southeast of the U.S., 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:49 Phil Goodman And so, corporate demand is a bridge to that, to that world, and I think we've seen a lot of parallels in the wind and solar world, where a lot of the renewables procurements are driven by renewables procurement standards in the U.S.
Captura's high-stakes gamble
- ▶ 27:16 Steve Oldham Certainly in the United States, uh, and of course the danger is, is that other parts of the world say, well, if the United States isn't going to address climate, why should we? 4 times in the scene
Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
- ▶ 0:08 Lara Pierpoint This year in the U.S., steel manufacturers will produce more than seventy-one million tons of steel. 3 times in the scene
The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers
- ▶ 3:40 Lara Pierpoint About solving problems outside the U.S.
- ▶ 27:35 Lara Pierpoint It's funny because people often say to me, you know, catalytic or charitable capital isn't scalable, and when you look at the numbers that you just cited around how much money there is in U.S.
- ▶ 32:04 Lara Pierpoint I want to go back to, to the Indian context for just a minute and ask one of the questions that I think we as a climate tech community are just starting to get better about asking, and that's about justice and the sort of power and… 2 times in the scene
This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 4:20 Lara Pierpoint Over the last few decades, U.S. venture capital has reflected the state of the global economy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 Shomik Dutta It is the thing that Republicans most treasure, and Democrats rightfully most treasure, about the US's ability to stabilize global markets and control its own destiny. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 Shomik Dutta I didn't fully appreciate this, but in the nineties, we voluntarily kind of stopped a lot of our commercial enrichment processes in the United States to
- ▶ 39:38 Lara Pierpoint One of the things that we're seeing right now within Trellis is that a lot of the companies that we've been tracking and speaking to and working with over the last couple of years around how they're going to cross the scaling and… 4 times in the scene
Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years
- ▶ 1:12 Lara Pierpoint Vogel illustrates the twin challenges facing nuclear in the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 Lara Pierpoint When are you going outside the United States?
The sunk cost dilemma
- ▶ 2:22 Lara Pierpoint And in fact, they're behind one of the few successful point source carbon capture projects in the United States.
- ▶ 13:49 Lara Pierpoint Are you talking about in the U.S. or Korea or both? 3 times in the scene
John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
- ▶ 0:19 Lara Pierpoint The Democrats reform bill is the largest investment in climate policy in U.S. history, including over three hundred billion dollars to address global warming. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 John Hickenlooper I mean, the wealthiest of Americans, people making well over 400,000 dollars, in most cases, people that were making more than a million dollars a year, but there were some tax increases, so we knew we weren't going to get a single… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:04 John Hickenlooper Uh, you know, we had to fight tooth and nail to get some victories when it came over to the Senate, but that battle, um, meant that they had to answer to their, a lot of their House members are going to get killed when they go home, and,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:30 John Hickenlooper That applied to residential clean energy credit, um, and it would cover 30% of the cost of, uh, it was purchasing and installing, I'm pretty sure, uh, residential solar, the battery backup, uh, it would allow you to utilize geothermal heat…
- ▶ 26:31 John Hickenlooper You know, the world right now, we haven't changed our mining laws, uh, in, in the United States in over a hundred years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Lara Pierpoint John Hickenlooper is the U.S.
The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
- ▶ 7:50 Lara Pierpoint Thanks to the fracking boom in the US in the late 2000, early 20 tens, natural gas was cheap and abundant back in 2018. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:04 Zach Jones To his old company, and then went out and recruited the former CTO of the biggest graphite producer, uh, in the United States to come be an advisor and has been able to sort of really help develop that market, um, on the carbon side.
- ▶ 29:31 Lara Pierpoint Well, and I imagine at 80 cents a kilogram, you're, you're really in a pretty incredible position to be competitive, almost regardless of the market, but have any of your conversations gotten more difficult as the political landscape has… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:13 Zach Jones So, I think we've got a great pipeline of, of projects in the U.S., and also a few opportunities in Asia, and I'm hopeful that the challenge is going to be taking the projects that we don't select,
The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- ▶ 14:47 Rick Needham It's probably the one place where the US, uh, EU, UK, Japan, China, Russia are all involved in the same project.
- ▶ 18:11 Lara Pierpoint I'm really struck by the comparison of what you're doing to the journey that kale has had in the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:39 Lara Pierpoint I was at Exelon back in the day before, when it was still Constellation and Exelon all together, and I remember this was a really big topic of discussion because, you know, as the U.S.'s biggest nuclear operator, 2 times in the scene
Building Fervo's geothermal giant
- ▶ 1:32 Sarah Jewett We were started with the idea that we have had a ton of breakthroughs in how we extract oil and gas in the United States, and geothermal is an industry that's been sort of flat for a long period of time, and why can't we apply some of the…
- ▶ 17:40 Sarah Jewett We went to all the geothermal power facilities in the U.S. that all had declining brine effectiveness, and we were just going to drill our systems around the outside and provide power uplift to these facilities.
- ▶ 37:02 Sarah Jewett So that's just, you know, huge economic stability for a large sector that has built out its infrastructure over time, and that is uniquely American in some ways.
- ▶ 37:21 Lara Pierpoint Okay, so looking ahead a little bit, we're in a really interesting moment, particularly with the build-out of AI and data centers and hyperscaling requirements around the future of how we are going to do computing, particularly in this…
Terawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
- ▶ 2:29 Lara Pierpoint They're the biggest container ports in the U.S.
- ▶ 13:17 Neha Palmer Making sure that they had a robust program here in the US. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:01 Neha Palmer Um, understanding the density of the flow of traffic because, you know, the port of LA Long Beach is the biggest container port here in the US.
Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
- ▶ 1:56 Lara Pierpoint Today, the U.S. is installing 50,000 megawatts of solar a day.
- ▶ 13:14 Dan Shugar For example, uh, two years ago, we announced a major manufacturing facility with our partner, JM Steel, physically on the campus of the newest steel mill in the United States, which is in Sinton, Texas.
- ▶ 15:47 Dan Shugar We didn't have that much in the United States. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:24 Dan Shugar I think there's some cases where, where that could be true, but generally speaking, you know, if you look at the difference between the peak in a utility, in the U.S., there's 3000 utilities, and overseas, there's a lot more, obviously,… 2 times in the scene
Electric Hydrogen’s bet on supersized electrolyzers
- ▶ 24:41 Rafi Garabedian And we found that not only here in the U.S., but around the world, actually.
- ▶ 32:39 Rafi Garabedian At least not in Europe and in the US.
How supply chain chaos sank Sunfolding
- ▶ 17:30 Layla Madrone And the other thing that was really challenging for us was there was this historic divergence in the cost of U.S. steel versus Asian steel. 6 times in the scene
Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back
- ▶ 3:50 Stephen Lacey She's been a key figure in many of the policies and regulations guiding clean energy here in the U.S. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Jigar Shah I mean, I think where we are today is that the clean energy industry in the United States, in all of its forms, invests roughly five hundred billion dollars a year, um, but pays about two hundred million dollars a year in influence. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Jigar Shah Around step up in basis and some of that stuff, and I think the Trump administration is continuing all of that work, and so I think the way in which tax equity is structured in the United States is changing, um, dramatically.
- ▶ 41:56 Jigar Shah On the personal side, I mean, I know people at USAID, like, I know families that are overseas who got, like, one week's notice to try to move their family back to the United States, and they've got kids in school, and I mean, I just think…
- ▶ 49:26 Katherine Hamilton And as a result of that, critical materials in the U.S. and because of BV sales, critical materials in the U.S. are going to grow.
The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement
- ▶ 8:37 Yanni Sippis The reality is the design and construction industry generally, especially in the United States, tends to be pretty reluctant to try new things and to try new materials and products.
Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
- ▶ 4:59 Chris Taylor My entire career has been trying to do, build something new, whether it's a new initiative in a big company like I did at Google, or being part of, like, the first wave of wind development in the United States.
- ▶ 21:45 Chris Taylor So you kind of know, you know, the biggest investors in the US have historically been JP Morgan, B of A, US Bank, Wells Fargo, people like that.
- ▶ 26:54 Chris Taylor Those are the two biggest markets in the U.S. into other regions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Chris Taylor So I think the biggest risks to us are tariffs, and getting this manufacturing supply chain into the United States is a goal that we share. 4 times in the scene
Building the world’s biggest DAC facility
The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 8:42 Tanya Das Critical minerals are an essential input for a lot of our technologies in the energy sector and other sectors in the U.S., and that we need secure supply chains. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga I think that we, uh, will now start to see, uh, substantial, um, you know, you know, U.S. generated onshore jobs by virtue of these solar, solar manufacturing plants, for example, um, uh, you know, waste energy, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:22 Stephen Lacey Uh, a lot of different analysis showing a pretty rapid increase in demand, potentially a doubling of electricity consumption through 2030 here in the U.S., and often when we look at those numbers, people see the big number, and then, uh,… 3 times in the scene
Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- ▶ 8:40 John Woolard So we turned around as the US team and said, well, it's just a three page application.
- ▶ 20:11 John Woolard That's when the U.S. team started to pay attention and say, you know, this is something that is now, it's been cut in half.
Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
- ▶ 13:44 Ahmad Farooqi All retail business in the United States, without advertising and marketing, where would it be?
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 3:20 Stephen Lacey In our final episode, America's clean energy finance czar Jigar Shah and DC policy maven Catherine Hamilton join me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Jigar Shah America was always the place that you wanted to start your company, but many of your markets were overseas because, you know, we had a patchwork quilt of, of implementation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:26 Stephen Lacey Goldman Sachs projects data centers could account for eight percent of power demand in the U.S. by the end of the decade.
- ▶ 29:03 Katherine Hamilton Um, and yet that's where they're starting, and I think that's going to happen throughout the U.S. as well, in addition to the American West, where the resources are really, really good, but you need some things.
- ▶ 32:32 Katherine Hamilton You know, it is 19% of the U.S. electrical, uh, resource out there, so it's like producing power, doing a good job. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 Jigar Shah The U.S. for the first time in a very long time has load growth.
- ▶ 55:22 Jigar Shah There are a lot of communities around our country that are not focused on, and so, you know, my hope is that they, uh, that these, you know, folks use different paths, right, because there's different people who are awarded money to make…
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