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  1. Catalyst · 17 Apr 2025 Serving data center load with carbon capture with Julio Friedmann, chief scientist, Carbon Direct Hyperscalers are driving a large gas buildout while holding real decarbonization commitments. Can carbon capture square that circle, or is “capture ready” the same empty promise “hydrogen ready” turned out to be?
  2. Catalyst · 21 Nov 2024 TEA breakdown: green ammonia and synthetic methane with Greg Thiel, managing director of technology, and Melissa Ball, associate director of technology, Energy Impact Partners What would actually have to change for green ammonia and synthetic methane to be made at a cost anyone would pay?
  3. Catalyst · 19 Sep 2024 Can AI revolutionize materials discovery? with Ekin Dogus Cubuk, research scientist working on materials discovery, Google DeepMind Is materials discovery the killer application for artificial intelligence in climate tech, or is it much harder than it looks?
  4. Steel For Fuel · 19 Aug 2024 Direct Air Capture and (machine) learning curves by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners What does Climeworks’ first real-world direct air capture plant missing its design targets tell us about the technology?
  5. Catalyst · 12 Jul 2024 Decarbonizing the high seas with Lynn Loo, CEO, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation What will ocean-going ships burn instead of fuel oil, and why has shipping not converged on a single answer the way aviation has?
  6. Steel For Fuel · 12 Jul 2024 Will CCS make a lot of these other questions moot? by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners Can we deal with carbon dioxide by capturing it and burying it, rather than by replacing the fossil fuel that produces it, and so make the energy transition’s other big questions irrelevant?
  7. Catalyst · 2 May 2024 CO2 utilization with Julio Friedmann, chief scientist, Carbon Direct If we end up capturing billions of tons of carbon dioxide a year, what should we actually do with it?
  8. Catalyst · 23 Jan 2024 The pitfalls of sourcing biomass for carbon removal with Dr. Bodie Cabiyo, senior forest scientist, Carbon Direct If we are going to use plants to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, where should the biomass come from, and how would anyone know whether a given batch is actually doing good?
  9. Steel For Fuel · 6 Jul 2023 Is natural gas a “bridge fuel”? A dead end? Or something else? by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners Is natural gas a bridge fuel, a dead end, or something else?
  10. Catalyst · 17 Nov 2022 Fixing cement’s carbon problem with Leah Ellis, co-founder and CEO, Sublime Systems Cement releases carbon dioxide twice over, once from the fuel and once from the rock itself. Which of the proposed fixes actually gets both to zero?