Catalyst with Shayle Kann
Investor Shayle Kann is asking big questions about how to decarbonize the planet: How cheap can clean energy get? Will artificial intelligence speed up climate solutions? Where is the smart money going into climate technologies? Every week on Catalyst, Shayle explains the world of "climate tech" with prominent experts, investors, researchers, and executives. Produced by Latitude Media.
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Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access
How geography, landscape and the rights to physical spaces could hinder key climate technologies
37 min
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Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data
How do you turn consumer energy data into easy-to-access interfaces for distributed energy providers and consumers?
47 min
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How will the downturn affect climate tech?
What Wall Street’s recent nosedive means for the industry
42 min
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Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode
Shayle Kann fields your questions on the rising solar costs, crypto mining haters and much more
49 min
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Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market
Lowercarbon Capital’s Ryan Orbuch on avoiding the carbon removal pitfalls of the past
49 min
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Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
A conversation with Jigar Shah, director of the DOE’s Loan Programs Office about a conditional $504 million loan guarantee for what would be one of biggest hydrogen projects in the U.S.
43 min
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The great rush for battery metals
Will the supply of metals like lithium, cobalt and nickel become the bottleneck to EV adoption?
57 min
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Alternative protein: it’s what’s for dinner
How biotech could replace conventional livestock agriculture
48 min
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Carbon capture and storage is making a comeback
Despite CCS's poor track record, planned capacity is up 50% globally
34 min
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Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next win...
What the Russian war in Ukraine means for the energy transition
47 min
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Will this carbon market boom be different?
Shayle Kann talks with Nat Bullard about emerging tech, rising demand and a new focus on removal.
51 min
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When will batteries take over the world?
What will it take for batteries to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas emissions?
56 min
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What the grid can learn from the internet
Can utilities capture and crunch grid-edge data to unlock the benefits of DERs?
58 min
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Unlocking hyper-efficient cooling
How growing demand for cooling is producing more heat trapping greenhouse gasses. And what we can do about it.
47 min
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Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
Startups are testing new technologies to solve the challenges of traditional nuclear. Will they succeed?
65 min
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A critical tool for scaling climate tech: insur...
How insurance could unlock a new deployment wave of climate solutions.
45 min
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The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in Calif...
Inside the 'white gold' rush in California that could fuel the battery revolution. Who benefits?
18 min
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The future of the home solar market
Sunrun CEO Mary Powell on where solar, batteries, and electrification are headed.
44 min
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The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals
Chemicals will be the biggest source of growth for oil by mid-century. How do we reverse that trend?
64 min
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Microbes, meat and materials: biotech meets cli...
Where could biotech beat out electrochemistry in engineering climate solutions?
40 min
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Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to bac...
A conversation about why the feds want to back a first-of-a-kind plant for hydrogen and usable carbon.
46 min
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Is nuclear fusion getting close?
A technical expert discusses when (or if) fusion will become a reality.
46 min
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Quantum computing could be a critical climate s...
The case for quantum computing as an enabler of climate tech.
49 min
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The future of natural gas
Shayle explores the tech innovations that could decarbonize or demolish fossil gas.
45 min
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A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
What are the technical solutions for making zero-carbon airplanes?
47 min