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 | Dec 23, 2019 | Big Picture
The past few weeks have supplied a consistent string of negative news on the climate change front. NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card, warning that the globe has likely reached an important “tipping point” – namely, that melting permafrost now makes the...
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 | Oct 25, 2019 | All Grids, Efficient Building
I have some good news and bad news about sea level rise. First for the bad news – two pieces, one from each coast. From the East Coast, the bad news came in the form of an excellent New York Times feature story, As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests. The Ghost...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Oct 2, 2019 | All Grids, Grid Modernization
If you take a survey of the two most important words in Tech investing, you’re likely to get any one of many answers: “Market share” “Network effects” “Application ecosystem” “Price momentum” All are possible responses. In my mind, however, the two most important...
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