by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 31, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
When your correspondent sat down with Idealab founder, Bill Gross, to talk about one of his newest and most exciting projects, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) company, Heliogen, we spent about half our time discussing the technical challenges of producing...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 19, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
Bill Gates calls it the 75% Problem. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants only account for 25% of total, and electrical generation is one source of GHG emissions for which cheap renewable sources are well-suited. If we don’t radically reduce the remaining...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 30, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat
Congratulations. You just lived through the warmest decade in the last several hundred years and likely the warmest since the beginning of human civilization. This year in particular has been one of records: In January and February, Australia experienced...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Nov 29, 2019 | All AgTech, All Grids, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat, Regenerative Agriculture
Most of the companies about which I write in this column are new ventures commercializing cutting-edge technology to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions – companies like GlassPoint Solar, Carbon Engineering, and PrairieFoods. As a society, we desperately need these...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 7, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
If you ask most people how we will get to a zero-carbon world, they’re likely to talk about electric cars and wind farms. However, climate cognoscenti know that the two largest contributors to climate change are industrial processes and agriculture, whose greenhouse...
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