by Matt Weinberg | Jun 23, 2022 | Podcasts
Within the climate tech world, technology hype is all over the map. In this episode, Lara Pierpoint, director of climate at Actuate, and Stephen Lacey, host of The Carbon Copy and executive producer of Catalyst, join Shayle for a game of “buy sell hold.” They...
by Matt Weinberg | Jun 22, 2022 | Podcasts
A version of this episode originally ran on Catalyst w/ Shayle Kann.Stock markets are in decline. Inflation is on the rise. Interest rates are up. Private tech companies are laying off workers.Is this the long-awaited market correction that never quite materialized...
by Matt Weinberg | Jun 8, 2022 | Podcasts
Five years ago, Puerto Rico’s grid was decimated by Hurricane Maria. Out of the destruction, many hoped that Puerto Rico’s new grid could be built around solar and batteries – replacing centralized gas, coal, and oil plants connected with remote...
by Matt Weinberg | Jun 2, 2022 | Podcasts
There’s a bottleneck in climate tech that we don’t talk about enough: land availability. It’s a physical resource you need to support biomass, renewables, mineral mining, and other essential tools of decarbonization. So how much is enough, and where do we need it?In...
by Matt Weinberg | Jun 1, 2022 | Podcasts
In December 2021, Senator Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News to announce that he would not vote for Joe Biden’s signature climate plan, Build Back Better. The reason he cited? A score given by the Congressional Budget Office.The Congressional Budget Office – or CBO for...