| 10M | “ten million” | Canary says Mast buried ten million pounds of fire-killed trees in Montana | Grant Canary | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $100M | “A hundred million dollars” | Dennett: An extra $100M would not fundamentally change Endolith's ultimate success | Liz Dennett | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Jurowicz: Reactor equipment accounts for only 7% of nuclear build costs | Jake Jurowicz | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 35B | “thirty five billion” | Jurowicz: Venture Global raised over $35B in project finance for modular LNG | Jake Jurowicz | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Gershenson: Enduring Planet's default rate is well under 1% across 80 deals | Dimitri Gershenson | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Pinkowski: Fertilizer accounts for 5% to 7% of global emissions | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Pinkowski: Nitricity secured $6.5M via a grant and 48C tax credit | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Pinkowski: Nitricity won a California sales tax exemption worth nearly $1M | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Pinkowski: Nitricity closed an almost $10M USDA Rural Development loan | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 38% | “38%” | Pinkowski: Strait of Hormuz accounts for 38% of global urea supply | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 45M | “forty-five million” | Pinkowski: Hormuz closure will push 45M more people into food insecurity | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | Open |
| 500% | “500%” | Pinkowski: Nitricity saw a 500% inbound jump following Hormuz supply disruptions | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “A hundred million” | Pinkowski: Nitricity needs up to $300M to disrupt conventional fertilizer markets | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Pinkowski: Nitricity needs up to $300M to disrupt conventional fertilizer markets | Nico Pinkowski | Jul 15, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Jaramillo: Form Energy is operating half of a 1-million-square-foot factory | Mateo Jaramillo | Jul 1, 2026 | Supported |
| $290M | “two hundred ninety million dollars” | Jaramillo: West Virginia provided $290M in financing for 750 jobs by 2028 | Mateo Jaramillo | Jul 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Jaramillo: Form Energy won a $150M DOE grant for manufacturing equipment | Mateo Jaramillo | Jul 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 36% | “36%” | Paruri: Tandem PV expects to reach 35% to 36% solar efficiency in medium term | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 23% | “23%” | Paruri: US silicon solar panels will max out at 25% efficiency | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 25% | “25%” | Paruri: US silicon solar panels will max out at 25% efficiency | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 30% | “30%” | Paruri: Tandem PV has achieved over 30% panel efficiency | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 45% | “45%” | Paruri: Perovskite-silicon tandems can reach 45% efficiency | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Paruri: All-perovskite tandems could achieve 60% to 70% efficiency | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Partly held up |
| 80% | “80%” | Paruri: Utility-scale solar accounts for 80% of the solar market | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Paruri: Tandem PV delivers 30% efficiency boost over silicon, 50% over CdTe | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 50% | “50%” | Paruri: Tandem PV delivers 30% efficiency boost over silicon, 50% over CdTe | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Paruri: Tandem PV Tested Module Outdoors for 18 Months Without Degradation | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Paruri: Tandem PV secured 100% equipment financing for demonstration factory | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Paruri: Solar modules now represent only 20% of installation costs | Saritha Paruri | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Supercool Earth can sell its snowmaking product 20% cheaper than Snomax | Dacia Leone | May 20, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Su: 40% of global sovereign wealth is Gulf sovereign wealth | Susan Su | May 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Su: 5% Rates Substantially Devalue Long-Duration Climate Tech Assets | Susan Su | May 6, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Su: Only ~25% of VC Firms Successfully Raise a Fund III | Susan Su | May 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 88% | “88%” | Su: 85% to 88% of solar hardware is produced in China | Susan Su | May 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Su: Captive coal plants supply 60% of energy for Chinese solar manufacturing | Susan Su | May 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Pumped hydro accounts for 90% of global energy storage capacity | Lara Pierpoint | Dec 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 4B | “four-billion” | San Miguel Electric Cooperative secured a $1.4B USDA grant for renewables | Lara Pierpoint | Dec 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.7M | “2.7 million” | Microsoft contracted 2.7M tons of carbon removal from Ørsted over 11 years | Lara Pierpoint | Dec 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Microsoft agrees to purchase 8 million tons of carbon from Chestnut Carbon | Phil Goodman | Dec 12, 2025 | — |
| 150× | “150 times” | CO2 is 150 times more concentrated in oceans than in air | Lara Pierpoint | Nov 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “100 times” | Captura's 100-ton pilot scale was dictated by garage floor space | Steve Oldham | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| 70× | “70 times” | Captura's 100-ton pilot scale was dictated by garage floor space | Steve Oldham | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| $47M | “forty seven million dollars” | Captura raised $47M in Series A financing | Steve Oldham | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| 71M | “seventy-one million” | Pierpoint: US steelmakers to produce over 71M tons of steel | Lara Pierpoint | Nov 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Carneiro: Steel production accounts for over 7% of global CO2 emissions | Tadeu Carneiro | Nov 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Carneiro: Boston Metal produces 2x to 3x more metal per ore volume | Tadeu Carneiro | Nov 7, 2025 | Open |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Carneiro: Boston Metal could sign offtakes for 100% of critical metals output today | Tadeu Carneiro | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Carneiro: Boston Metal needs $100M CapEx to double Brazil plant capacity | Tadeu Carneiro | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Promethean tripled thermal battery efficiency before commercial launch | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 300% | “300%” | Promethean tripled thermal battery efficiency before commercial launch | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Chilled milk enables 27% margins on value-added dairy versus 7% on pouches | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 27% | “27%” | Chilled milk enables 27% margins on value-added dairy versus 7% on pouches | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Promethean secured flexible financing via 4% revenue share from donor-advised funds | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Promethean secured flexible financing via 4% revenue share from donor-advised funds | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Donor-advised funds are sitting on around $250 billion in undeployed capital | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Eighty percent of data center power consumption comes from cooling | Sam White | Oct 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Dutta: Wildfire costs reached $680 billion in the past year alone | Shomik Dutta | Oct 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Dutta: Transmission costs rise at three times inflation while generation lags inflation | Shomik Dutta | Oct 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Dutta: Power grid will decentralize into mini-grids and behind-the-meter loads over 30 years | Shomik Dutta | Oct 8, 2025 | — |
| $28.5B | “28.5 billion dollars” | Plant Vogtle's new nuclear reactors doubled in cost to $28.5 billion | News Broadcaster | Sep 24, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Rare builds trap nuclear engineers in narrow career development bands | Mike Laufer | Sep 24, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kairos aims to cut reactor capital costs by 50% across seven builds | Mike Laufer | Sep 24, 2025 | — |
| 18% | “18%” | Beauchamp: 8 Rivers has secured 18% offtake for Project Cormorant | Damien Beauchamp | Sep 10, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Beauchamp: 8 Rivers needs $100M to reach FID on two major projects | Damien Beauchamp | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Hickenlooper: IRA would have been 5x larger under progressive Democrats' plan | John Hickenlooper | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Hickenlooper: 85% of IRA Renewable Investments Go to Red States | John Hickenlooper | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 33% | “33%” | Hickenlooper: 25% to 33% chance permitting reform passes in three years | John Hickenlooper | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Graphitic Energy's graphite byproduct is worth 20x its thermal BTU value | Zach Jones | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | North American TAM for Graphitic Energy's carbon byproduct is 3 million tons | Zach Jones | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| 1.8B | “1.8 billion” | Needham: CFS built a breakthrough magnet in 38 months, raising $1.8B | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Needham: CFS grew global superconducting tape supply capacity 40x | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Needham: SPARC reactor targets 100MW thermal power with 10x energy gain | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Needham: SPARC reactor targets 100MW thermal power with 10x energy gain | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | Open |
| 10M | “ten million” | Needham: Fusion plants can be licensed in 18 months for under $10M | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Needham: Fusion plants can be licensed in 18 months for under $10M | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Needham: Fusion plants can be licensed in 18 months for under $10M | Rick Needham | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| $3T | “three trillion dollars” | Lacey: Clean energy attracts nearly $3 trillion in annual investment | Stephen Lacey | Jun 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Lee: Distributed energy faces crushing operational overhead compared to utility-scale projects | Amanda Lee | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lee: Distributed energy faces crushing operational overhead compared to utility-scale projects | Amanda Lee | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lee: Distributed energy faces crushing operational overhead compared to utility-scale projects | Amanda Lee | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a Thousand” | Halfacre: Distributed infrastructure suffers transaction friction from fragmented, non-traditional counterparties | Rachel Halfacre | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Fernandez: $60B–$70B infra funds have 15-year track records without project losses | Mario Fernandez | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 x” | Fernandez: Hardware de-risking requires stepping from pilot to 5-20x demo to FOAK | Mario Fernandez | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Fernandez: Infrastructure investors back FOAK projects for multi-project platform deployment options | Mario Fernandez | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Fernandez: Infrastructure investors back FOAK projects for multi-project platform deployment options | Mario Fernandez | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Fernandez: FOAK climate projects cannot secure project-level debt | Mario Fernandez | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Jewett: About 60% of Fervo Energy's team has oil and gas background | Sarah Jewett | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Baglino: Tesla Built 1,000 'Powerwall Zero' Units From Model S Batteries | Drew Baglino | Apr 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | LineVision bid on a $750K utility RFP with just $2M in capital | Karthik Rao | Apr 9, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | LineVision's sensor technology increases transmission line capacity by up to 40 percent | Karthik Rao | Apr 9, 2025 | Supported |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Shugar: Texas hailstorm destroyed non-Nextracker solar project, costing over $70 million | Dan Shugar | Mar 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 4M | “a three million” | Nextracker co-located manufacturing with JM Steel at Steel Dynamics' Texas mill | Dan Shugar | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 84% | “84%” | Dan Shugar: Solar and storage were 84% of 2024 grid capacity additions | Dan Shugar | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Garabedian: Electric Hydrogen cuts electrolyzer equipment costs by 50 percent | Rafi Garabedian | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “threex” | US steel costing triple Asian steel crushes domestic solar manufacturers | Layla Madrone | Feb 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Hamilton: Clean energy accounted for 60% of US energy job growth | Katherine Hamilton | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Hamilton: Clean energy accounted for 60% of US energy job growth | Katherine Hamilton | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Hamilton: Clean energy accounted for 60% of US energy job growth | Katherine Hamilton | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Hamilton: Clean energy accounted for 60% of US energy job growth | Katherine Hamilton | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Shah: Oil and Gas Outspends Clean Energy 20 to 1 on Influence | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Shah: Oil and Gas Outspends Clean Energy 20 to 1 on Influence | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $250B | “two hundred fifty billion dollars” | Shah: Oil and Gas Outspends Clean Energy 20 to 1 on Influence | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Shah: Oil and Gas Outspends Clean Energy 20 to 1 on Influence | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Shah: Trump administration will roll back wind and solar pauses to avoid blackouts | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Shah: DOGE cannot reach $2T cuts without defense, Social Security, or healthcare | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Jigar Shah: Battery storage additions will be tenfold natural gas deployments | Jigar Shah | Feb 19, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Raising $100M-$200M only funds a single clean energy infrastructure project | Chris Taylor | Jan 22, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Raising $100M-$200M only funds a single clean energy infrastructure project | Chris Taylor | Jan 22, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Chan: Cypress DAC Hub won $50M grant, eligible for $600M | Doug Chan | Jan 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Chan: Cypress DAC Hub won $50M grant, eligible for $600M | Doug Chan | Jan 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Dave: Separation steps account for 70% of chemical production costs | Shreya Dave | Nov 27, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Dave: Via Separations membrane cuts industrial separation energy use by 90% | Shreya Dave | Nov 27, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Dave: Component lead times make 10x scaling take as long as 100x | Shreya Dave | Nov 27, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Dave: Component lead times make 10x scaling take as long as 100x | Shreya Dave | Nov 27, 2024 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Woolard: BrightSource's power tower design cut solar thermal costs by ~40% | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 30% | “30%” | Woolard: Solar towers had half the cost of silicon PV in 2005 | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 24% | “24%” | Woolard: Solar towers had half the cost of silicon PV in 2005 | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Woolard: NRG and Google invested $300M and $150M in BrightSource's Ivanpah | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Woolard: Ivanpah tortoise head start program raised survival from 2% to 90% | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Woolard: Ivanpah tortoise head start program raised survival from 2% to 90% | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Woolard: Ivanpah operates at roughly 90% of its design capacity | John Woolard | Nov 13, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 2% | “two percent” | Farooqi: Most utility time-of-use rates enroll only 1-2% of customers | Ahmad Farooqi | Sep 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Farooqi: Outside retail aggregators understand customers far better than regulated utilities | Ahmad Farooqi | Sep 4, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Engstrom: Over 60% of US customers have TOU access, under 10% enroll | Scott Engstrom | Sep 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Engstrom: Over 60% of US customers have TOU access, under 10% enroll | Scott Engstrom | Sep 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 97% | “97%” | Farooqi: SMUD achieved 97% TOU enrollment and 4-8% peak reduction | Ahmad Farooqi | Sep 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Farooqi: SMUD achieved 97% TOU enrollment and 4-8% peak reduction | Ahmad Farooqi | Sep 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Shah: Clean energy VC investment reached roughly $60B annually in 2020-2022 | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Shah: Clean energy must act like the dominant industry it is | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Shah: Clean energy must act like the dominant industry it is | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Shah: Annual electricity load growth will likely be around 2.5%, not 7% | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Open |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Shah: Annual electricity load growth will likely be around 2.5%, not 7% | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Open |
| 10% | “10%” | Shah: Traditional utility expansion formula causes 10% annual rate hikes | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | — |
| 550% | “550%” | Lacey: Data center energy demand barely budged from 2010 to 2018 | Stephen Lacey | Jul 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Hamilton: Dynamic line ratings unlock 15% to 20% more transmission capacity | Katherine Hamilton | Jul 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Shah: Most US Geothermal Power Plants Only Achieve 60% Uptime | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 15% | “15%” | Shah: Wildfire costs account for only 3-5% of PG&E rate hikes | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 4% | “four percent” | Shah: Wildfire costs account for only 3-5% of PG&E rate hikes | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 5% | “five percent” | Shah: Wildfire costs account for only 3-5% of PG&E rate hikes | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 4× | “four times” | Shah: Virtual power plants must be opt-out and fully automated to scale | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | — |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Shah: LMI consumers buy $4B in appliances monthly via high-interest debt | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 30% | “30%” | Shah: LMI consumers buy $4B in appliances monthly via high-interest debt | Jigar Shah | Jul 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “a million” | Phillips: Sense devices collect up to one million data samples per second | Mike Phillips | Jun 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Phillips: Modern smart meters capture 50 million times more data | Mike Phillips | Jun 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Patterson: Solar module size grew over 40% while structural materials shrank | Greg Patterson | Jun 13, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Patterson: Steel solar frames cut embodied emissions by 90% versus aluminum | Greg Patterson | Jun 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Patterson: 98% of solar module aluminum frame supply comes from Asia | Greg Patterson | Jun 13, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Beebe: Zanskar has proven a 90% hit rate for exploratory geothermal wells | Andrew Beebe | Jun 10, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Patel: 100x scale drives 70% cost reduction across climate tech | Mark Patel | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Patel: 100x scale drives 70% cost reduction across climate tech | Mark Patel | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Orthofer: 12 climate tech sectors capture 90% of 2050 abatement needs | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Orthofer: Only 10% of net-zero abatement potential is fully mature today | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Orthofer: Max 30% of abatement needs commercially viable by late 2030s | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | Open |
| 70% | “70%” | Orthofer: Electrolyzer stack costs could fall up to 70% by 2034 | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Orthofer: Decarbonizing existing hydrogen demand requires 1,000 GW of electrolysis | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Orthofer: Decarbonizing existing hydrogen demand requires 1,000 GW of electrolysis | Anna Orthofer | Jun 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.6% | “2.6%” | Grid Strategies: 5-year US power demand growth forecast jumped to 4.7% | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | Supported |
| 4.7% | “4.7%” | Grid Strategies: 5-year US power demand growth forecast jumped to 4.7% | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Solomon: AI uses 1-2% of US electricity, may triple by 2030 | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Belizaire: AI servers require ten times the power density of traditional compute | John Belizaire | May 21, 2024 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Solomon: New EPA rules require CCS on high-utilization gas plants by early 2030s | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Solomon: Advanced conductors can quadruple transmission capacity by 2035 | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Janus: Carbon Accounting Allows Net-Zero Claims While Utilities Add Gas | Brian Janous | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Solomon: Existing solar, wind, and batteries can achieve an 80% to 90% clean grid | Michelle Solomon | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 11T | “a 10 trillion” | Elon Musk canceled Tesla's affordable car to pursue a $10T AI pivot | Steve LeVine | May 15, 2024 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Tesla is investing $10 billion annually across AI, Dojo, and robotics | Steve LeVine | May 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 27% | “27%” | Lacey: 27% of US Geologist Workforce Will Retire by 2029 | Stephen Lacey | May 8, 2024 | Open |
| 6× | “six times” | Lacey: Net Zero Will Require 6x More Critical Minerals, Per IEA | Stephen Lacey | May 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 21% | “21%” | Lacey: Heat Pumps Outsold Gas Furnaces by 21% in US in 2023 | Stephen Lacey | May 8, 2024 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Piper: IRA created 170k+ jobs and $110B in clean energy manufacturing | Julia Piper | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 94% | “94%” | EIA: 94% of new 2024 US power capacity from renewables and batteries | Julia Piper | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Hurlbut: $250B of $370B in clean tech investment goes to red states | Brandon Hurlbut | Apr 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Hurlbut: $250B of $370B in clean tech investment goes to red states | Brandon Hurlbut | Apr 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Domenech: US energy costs have risen 30% since 2021 | Emily Domenech | Apr 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Domenech: Coal generates over 60% of power in China, 74% in India | Emily Domenech | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 66% | “66%” | Domenech: Coal generates over 60% of power in China, 74% in India | Emily Domenech | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 74% | “74%” | Domenech: Coal generates over 60% of power in China, 74% in India | Emily Domenech | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Domenech: Coal generates over 60% of power in China, 74% in India | Emily Domenech | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Hurlbut: DOE Loan Programs Office has ~3% default rate | Brandon Hurlbut | Apr 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Bhargava: The US has 280 million cars, doubling household count | Apoorv Bhargava | Apr 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Bhargava: Grid operators cannot manage millions of EVs without AI | Apoorv Bhargava | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ravindran: AI in energy is not new; algorithms deployed decades ago | Sadia Ravindran | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Groarke: Google estimates AI drives 15% of its load growth | David Groarke | Apr 17, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Groarke: Utility operations and maintenance costs are rising 40% annually | David Groarke | Apr 17, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 75% | “75%” | Groarke: Smart meter deployment in the US has reached 75% | David Groarke | Apr 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Groarke: Utility R&D fell 75% following 1990s restructuring | David Groarke | Apr 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Bhargava: Lack of software rate-basing will force artificial hardware bundling | Apoorv Bhargava | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Bhargava: Lack of software rate-basing will force artificial hardware bundling | Apoorv Bhargava | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | O'Donnell: Electricity Moves 1,000 Miles While Steam Moves 1,000 Meters | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Donnell: Carbon capture fundamentally requires burning 30% more fossil fuels | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | O'Donnell: 1,000°C bricks match lithium-ion energy density at one-tenth the cost | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Donnell: 1,000°C bricks match lithium-ion energy density at one-tenth the cost | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | O'Donnell: Steam boilers represent over 80% of US industrial heat | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | O'Donnell: South Australia experiences nearly 3,000 hours of negative electricity prices | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | O'Donnell: Rondo heat batteries cost $5/kW marginally at 98% efficiency | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | O'Donnell: Rondo heat batteries cost $5/kW marginally at 98% efficiency | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | O'Donnell: Electrolyzers do not pencil below 50% capacity factor | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | O'Donnell: Rondo heat batteries address 90% of global industrial heat | John O'Donnell | Apr 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 9% | “nine percent” | BNEF: Only 9% of 2030 Planned Clean Hydrogen Has Offtake Agreements | Lisa Martine Jenkins | Mar 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 23% | “23%” | BNEF: Only 9% of 2030 Planned Clean Hydrogen Has Offtake Agreements | Lisa Martine Jenkins | Mar 22, 2024 | Supported |
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