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  1. Catalyst · 25 Sep 2025 Ag residue and carbon removal with Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO, Charm Industrial Crop residue is abundant, expensive to collect and a poor fuel. What is it actually good for, and what would it take to get it off the field economically?
  2. Catalyst · 1 May 2025 Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week with Nick Chaset, chief executive, Octopus Energy US; Mike Schroepfer, founder and partner, Gigascale Capital (former chief technology officer of Meta) What is climate tech over-hyping and under-hyping right now, and why does Kann think consumer products account for so many of its few big wins?
  3. Catalyst · 30 Jan 2025 2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal with Nat Bullard, co-founder, Halcyon (an AI company), and former chief content officer, Bloomberg New Energy Finance What do the data actually say about where energy and climate stood entering 2025?
  4. Catalyst · 2 Dec 2024 From biowaste to ‘biogold’ with Julio Friedmann, chief scientist, Carbon Direct There is only so much biomass, and every use of it competes with every other use. What should we actually do with it?
  5. Catalyst · 3 Oct 2024 DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale with Andreas Aepli, chief financial officer, Climeworks The first commercial direct air capture plants are running. What does it actually take to get from there to commercial scale, and what has the one company that has done it learned along the way?
  6. Catalyst · 12 Sep 2024 The better mousetrap fallacy with Andy Lubershane, partner and head of research, Energy Impact Partners Which parts of climate tech still need a technology breakthrough, and which ones only need someone to build a lot more of what already works?
  7. 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?
  8. 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?
  9. 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?
  10. Catalyst · 6 Mar 2024 Shopify’s head of sustainability on the realities of carbon removal with Stacy Kauk, head of sustainability, Shopify What does it look like to be one of the first corporate buyers of durable carbon removal, and what does three and a half years of it teach you?
  11. 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?
  12. Steel For Fuel · 21 Dec 2023 What’s the best use for our ‘waste’ biomass? by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners Of all the things that could be done with the biomass agriculture, forestry and food systems throw away, which is the best?