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Points of view on startups, innovation, and the clean energy transition — what’s happening now, and what it means for what comes next.
March 12, 2025
The Grid Is the Bottleneck
We can build solar and wind faster than ever. Connecting it to the grid is another story. Interconnection queues, not generation, now decide how fast the transition moves.
energy transition
climate tech
February 28, 2025
Why Hard Tech Is Having a Moment
After a decade of software eating the world, capital is flowing back to atoms — batteries, reactors, and materials. A look at what changed, and which founders are positioned to win.
startups
innovation
February 6, 2025
The Case for Boring Batteries
The most important storage breakthroughs won’t be exotic chemistries. They’ll be cheap, iron-based, and unglamorous — and that’s exactly why they’ll scale.
climate tech
energy transition
January 20, 2025
What the Next AI Wave Owes to Energy
Compute is now a power problem. The companies that solve for cheap, clean electrons will quietly shape which AI ambitions are even possible over the next decade.
innovation
energy transition
January 3, 2025
Founders vs. the Permitting Machine
The hardest part of building physical climate infrastructure isn’t the technology — it’s the paperwork. A field guide to the startups treating permitting as a product.
startups
climate tech
December 15, 2024
The Quiet Return of Nuclear
Small modular reactors have been ten years away for thirty years. Something is different this time — and it has more to do with demand curves than reactor design.
energy transition
innovation
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