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...

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...

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...

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...

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...