Markets already understand that it’s too damn expensive to keep powering our economy by digging up and burning old dinosaur bones. In most places today, solar and wind are cheaper and scale faster. What you might not know yet is that technologies that grow chemicals in bioreactors or boost crop yields are already outperforming 100-year-old industrial processes that are dirty and dangerous. We see this happening in protein, transportation, chemicals, building materials, and even mining too. This radical shift isn’t just because of some warm and fuzzies. These are real businesses, with insane growth, and some posting nine-figure revenue run rates. In simple terms, cutting gigatons of CO2, mass market adoption, and generating piles of money will go hand-in-hand.
READ MORE[NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION. COUNSEL REVIEW PENDING] [EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:50AM EST MONDAY 9/18] [For discussion purposes only. Please keep confidential.] —————– Friends of Lowercarbon, Blah blah opening stuff. Anyone notice how hot it’s been? Storms, floods, drought. It’s all a mess. [<– All right, we don’t need to say more here. It’s been on the front
READ MOREIn the last few years alone we’ve seen tens of thousands of press releases issued by businesses, industry groups, countries, states, and cities touting net-zero commitments – promises that now cover more than 70% of global emissions and a giant chunk of the global economy. And for every single one of those press releases, there’s
READ MOREUncle Joe’s debt ceiling deal isn’t the only BFD that came out of D.C. this week. The Department of Energy just announced $46 million in awards to help eight fusion companies build their first power plants. This drives home how quickly fusion is going from sci-fi to steel-in-the-ground. That might come as a surprise to
READ MOREEarlier this year, we raised Lowercarbon Q>1, a $250m fund to advance the most promising fusion companies and accelerate the day when we can rehab our way out of this sludge-gargling addiction.
READ MORESince the launch of our Carbon Removal Fund, we’ve seen lots of exciting approaches to, well, carbon removal. Yet, there are some carbon removal methods that we think could use some more love. Below are just a few of the realms that are begging for more attention, ambition, and investment.
READ MOREThere has never been a better time to start a carbon removal company. We’ve raised $350 million to accelerate billions of tons of CO2 removal.
READ MOREThe latest once-only-every-seven-years IPCC report on the state of the climate was indeed bleak, but it also crystallized the opportunities ahead.
READ MOREIt’s been a while since I granted an interview, but when Alex Konrad at Forbes wrote to ask about what led to the launch of Lowercarbon and what we are up to, it seemed like a good a time as any to tell the story. What follows is a candid, and uncensored, peek into how I
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