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Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
10,000×	“10,000 times”	Lacey: ECMWF tested Huawei's 10,000x faster weather prediction AI	Stephen Lacey	Nov 16, 2023	Supported
10,000×	“10,000 X”	Brose: Global carbon removal capacity is only 3 million tons per year	Raphael Brose	Dec 6, 2022	Partly supported
2,000×	“2000 times”	Lacey: MIT report found US geothermal heat could power nation 2,000 times over	Stephen Lacey	Dec 22, 2023	Supported
300×	“300 times”	Hamilton: Big Three auto CEOs earn $21M–$29M, 300x their workers	Katherine Hamilton	Sep 29, 2023	Supported
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	—
100×	“hundred X”	Dave: Component lead times make 10x scaling take as long as 100x	Shreya Dave	Nov 27, 2024	—
100×	“hundred times”	Farooqi: Outside retail aggregators understand customers far better than regulated utilities	Ahmad Farooqi	Sep 4, 2024	—
100×	“hundred X”	Patel: 100x scale drives 70% cost reduction across climate tech	Mark Patel	Jun 3, 2024	—
100×	“hundred times”	Lacey: Auxin Solar's factory has a 150-megawatt annual capacity	Stephen Lacey	Apr 27, 2022	Supported
70×	“70 times”	Captura's 100-ton pilot scale was dictated by garage floor space	Steve Oldham	Nov 19, 2025	—
45×	“45 X”	Lacey: First Solar Sold $700M of 45X Tax Credits	Stephen Lacey	Feb 1, 2024	Supported
45×	“45 X”	Lacey: Heliene Committed 1.3 GW U.S. Solar Manufacturing via 45X	Stephen Lacey	Feb 1, 2024	Supported
40×	“40 times”	Needham: CFS grew global superconducting tape supply capacity 40x	Rick Needham	Jun 18, 2025	—
30×	“30 times”	Lacey: 2022 India-Pakistan heatwave was made 30x more likely by climate change	Stephen Lacey	Jul 27, 2022	Supported
20×	“20 times”	Rare builds trap nuclear engineers in narrow career development bands	Mike Laufer	Sep 24, 2025	—
20×	“20 times”	Graphitic Energy's graphite byproduct is worth 20x its thermal BTU value	Zach Jones	Aug 13, 2025	—
20×	“20 x”	Fernandez: Hardware de-risking requires stepping from pilot to 5-20x demo to FOAK	Mario Fernandez	Jun 4, 2025	—
20×	“20 times”	CP2 LNG export facility emissions would be 20 times the Willow project	Bill McKibben	Dec 18, 2023	Supported
11×	“11 times”	Clayton: C&I Supply Chains Often Hold 11x More Carbon Than Operations	Annette Clayton	Jun 1, 2023	Supported
10×	“10 X”	Paruri: Tandem PV Tested Module Outdoors for 18 Months Without Degradation	Saritha Paruri	Jun 3, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Needham: SPARC reactor targets 100MW thermal power with 10x energy gain	Rick Needham	Jun 18, 2025	Open
10×	“10 times”	Jigar Shah: Battery storage additions will be tenfold natural gas deployments	Jigar Shah	Feb 19, 2025	Didn’t hold up
10×	“10 X”	Dave: Component lead times make 10x scaling take as long as 100x	Shreya Dave	Nov 27, 2024	—
10×	“10 times”	Belizaire: AI servers require ten times the power density of traditional compute	John Belizaire	May 21, 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
10×	“10 X”	Palazzi: 10x compute growth barely increased data center energy use	Titian Palazzi	Mar 14, 2024	Supported
10×	“10 X”	Palazzi: Utilities project up to 10x data center power demand growth	Titian Palazzi	Mar 14, 2024	Supported
10×	“10 X”	Lacey: California Reaches 1.8M Rooftop Solar Installations and 25% EV Sales Share	Stephen Lacey	Oct 6, 2023	Supported
10×	“10 X”	Spector: Analysts Anticipate 10x US Battery Cell Capacity Growth by 2027	Julian Spector	Aug 15, 2023	Open
10×	“10 X”	Goodman: Immediate 10x moonshots fail for core decarbonization use cases	Savannah Goodman	Jun 22, 2023	—
10×	“10 times”	Slenk: Diesel school bus cabin air is 10x dirtier than outside	Yesh Pavlik Slenk	May 30, 2023	Supported
10×	“10 times”	Klinenberg: Englewood Heat Mortality Rate Was 10x Higher Than Auburn-Gresham	Eric Klinenberg	Sep 7, 2022	Supported
8×	“eight times”	Gard-Murray: Heat pump manufacturing incentives yield benefits 5x their cost	Alexander Gard-Murray	Jun 29, 2022	Supported
6×	“six times”	Lacey: Net Zero Will Require 6x More Critical Minerals, Per IEA	Stephen Lacey	May 8, 2024	Supported
6×	“six times”	Ferris: EV charging costs vary up to 6x across Wellington utility borders	David Ferris	Nov 23, 2022	Supported
5×	“five times”	Hickenlooper: IRA would have been 5x larger under progressive Democrats' plan	John Hickenlooper	Aug 27, 2025	—
5×	“five X”	Palazzi: Utilities project up to 10x data center power demand growth	Titian Palazzi	Mar 14, 2024	Supported
5×	“five times”	China to add 150 GW solar in 2023, 1 TW by 2026	Michael Boyle	Nov 3, 2023	Supported
5×	“five times”	Green cement is commercially unviable if it delays building construction timelines	Jeff St. John	Oct 26, 2023	—
5×	“five times”	Goodman: Google delivers 5x more compute per unit of electricity versus 2018	Savannah Goodman	Jun 22, 2023	Partly supported
5×	“five times”	Clayton: Electricity is 3 to 5 times more efficient than other sources	Annette Clayton	Jun 1, 2023	Supported
5×	“five times”	Lacey: Republican districts get 5x more IRA clean energy funding than Democrats	Stephen Lacey	May 22, 2023	Supported
4×	“four times”	Shah: Virtual power plants must be opt-out and fully automated to scale	Jigar Shah	Jul 16, 2024	—
4×	“four times”	Solomon: Advanced conductors can quadruple transmission capacity by 2035	Michelle Solomon	May 21, 2024	Supported
4×	“four times”	Lacey: 1.5 terawatts of solar is four times global nuclear capacity	Stephen Lacey	Jan 9, 2024	Supported
4×	“four X”	DOE Study: Grid Must Accommodate 3-4x Renewable Increase in a Decade	Stephen Lacey	May 1, 2023	Supported
4×	“four times”	Ferris: EV charging costs vary up to 6x across Wellington utility borders	David Ferris	Nov 23, 2022	Supported
4×	“four times”	Lacey: Western Europe heatwaves rise 3-4x faster than mid-latitudes	Stephen Lacey	Jul 27, 2022	Supported
4×	“four times”	Westhoff: US Solar Industry Employs Four Times More People Than Coal	Eric Wesoff	Apr 27, 2022	Partly supported
3×	“three times”	Carneiro: Boston Metal produces 2x to 3x more metal per ore volume	Tadeu Carneiro	Nov 7, 2025	Open
3×	“three times”	Dutta: Transmission costs rise at three times inflation while generation lags inflation	Shomik Dutta	Oct 8, 2025	Supported
3×	“threex”	US steel costing triple Asian steel crushes domestic solar manufacturers	Layla Madrone	Feb 26, 2025	Supported
3×	“three times”	Hamilton: Clean energy investment must hit $5T annually for net-zero	Katherine Hamilton	Feb 22, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Sekine: Global battery manufacturing capacity reached 3x demand in 2023	Yayoi Sekine	Feb 8, 2024	Supported
3×	“three X”	Sekine: Global battery manufacturing overcapacity will worsen through 2025	Yayoi Sekine	Feb 8, 2024	Held up
3×	“three times”	Slenk: Electric school buses cost 2-3x more upfront than diesel	Yesh Pavlik Slenk	May 30, 2023	Supported
3×	“three X”	Shah: Advanced reconductoring can triple existing electric grid capacity	Jigar Shah	May 1, 2023	Supported
3×	“three times”	Natale: Permafrost stores 1.5 trillion tons of carbon, double atmospheric levels	Dr. Sue Natale	Jul 13, 2022	Supported
3×	“three times”	Natale: The Arctic is warming at least three times faster than global average	Dr. Sue Natale	Jul 13, 2022	Supported
3×	“three times”	Basu: Heat exposure elevates preterm delivery risk to 15% for Black mothers	Dr. Rupa Basu	May 25, 2022	Supported
3×	“three times”	Lovins: Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Resources Are 3x Larger Than Estimated	Amory Lovins	Apr 13, 2022	—
3×	“three times”	Lacey: Low-income Black and Latino renters pay 3x average energy costs	Stephen Lacey	Mar 30, 2022	Supported
2×	“two X”	Palazzi: Utilities project up to 10x data center power demand growth	Titian Palazzi	Mar 14, 2024	Supported
2×	“two times”	Reiter: Russia stopped natural gas supplies to Ukraine at least twice	Janusz Reiter	Jul 6, 2023	Supported

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