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Breakthrough Energy Venture’s Wilted Garden Of Climate Investments

August 8, 2024 admin Agriculture, batteries, Bill Gates, biofuels, breakthrough energy ventures, buildings, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Energy Storage, fusion, geothermal energy, green economy, heat storage, investment, Nuclear, nuclear energy, renewable energy, Shipping, sir richard branson, Solar energy, thermal storage, venture capital, vinod khosla, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:34:43 +0000

Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]

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Venture Capital Investor National Grid Partners Speaks About Cleantech Investing

February 25, 2023 admin clean power, green economy, INTERVIEWS, investment, utilities, venture capital

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:35:14 +0000

Silicon Valley has been the main high tech and venture capital hub in the US for decades. The Valley is typically viewed as San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. Typically, venture capital firms have invested in software, Internet and computer hardware startups: Google, Sun MicroSystems, Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, […]

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Decarbonizing Industrial Heat Faces Cognitive, Capex, Opex, & Disruptive Technology Challenges

November 11, 2022 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean tech, climate change, Coal, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, thermal energy storage, venture capital

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:00:30 +0000

There is insufficient attention paid to industrial heat decarbonization due to discontinuous technologies, contextual problems, and current economics.

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Interview With Cleantech Investor Zack Bogue Of DCVC

March 24, 2022 admin green economy, INTERVIEWS, investment, methane, venture capital

Credit to Author: Benjamin Schulz| Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:54:07 +0000

Benjamin Schulz: Zack, you’ve been investing in cleantech a long time, and if you look back, what change have you seen between then and now? Zack Bogue: I became interested in the space around 2007 — that was during the first cleantech wave when a number of cleantech companies weren’t working out because they were […]

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How a Web Design Company Crowdfunded Millions and Completely Disappeared

February 25, 2020 admin Artificial Intelligence, crowdfunding, Silicon Valley, the grid, venture capital

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:12:17 +0000

The Grid suddenly locked customers out of their websites and went silent for a year. Now, the CEO says he was naive. “I can imagine there’s a few people who are pissed off.”

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