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 | Jul 29, 2020 | All Post-Carbon
Your correspondent gets anywhere from 10-20 emails per day from public relations professionals wanting me to write about their client’s sustainability-related project. Most of these mails are about businesses that I wouldn’t consider investing in personally, that...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 24, 2020 | Big Picture, In Theory
Public attitudes regarding the scientific certainty of climate change have undergone an enormous shift since the mid-aughts, when former Vice President Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth first hit the theaters. The increasingly hard to ignore climate-related crises...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 16, 2020 | Big Picture, In Practice
One of the topics your correspondent keeps banging on about is that complex adaptive systems (like the world we live on) can sometimes experience jumps from one state to another when the they reach a tipping point. Unfortunately, most of the ecological tipping points...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 2, 2020 | Big Picture, In Theory
“All models are wrong but some are useful” — British statistician George E. P. Box In my climate change investing speaking engagements, doubters love to bring up what they think is the killer counter-argument: The mathematical models used by climate scientists and...
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