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  1. Catalyst · 5 Mar 2026 Digging deep for super hot geothermal with Carlos Araque, CEO and founder, Quaise Energy Geothermal works only where heat sits near the surface. If you drill deep enough to find much hotter rock, can you actually reach it, get the heat out, and do it cheaply?
  2. Steel For Fuel · 8 Oct 2025 Fusion, and other fusion-level bets: Part I by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners Is fusion actually worth a civilizational bet, given that fission already delivers most of what fusion promises?
  3. Catalyst · 29 May 2025 How geothermal gets built with Carl Hoiland, co-founder and CEO, Zanskar What does it actually take to find and develop a geothermal project, and why is the process finally getting faster?
  4. Catalyst · 8 May 2025 The US nuclear groundswell with Chris Colbert, co-founder and CEO, Elementl Power The US nuclear market is clearly stirring again. Does a groundswell like this one turn into an actual wave, or into another 2007-style mirage?
  5. Catalyst · 15 Aug 2024 The cost of nuclear with Jessica Lovering, co-founder and executive director, Good Energy Collective Why does a nuclear reactor cost roughly four times as much to build in the United States as in South Korea, and what would actually make American nuclear cheap?
  6. Catalyst · 27 Jun 2024 Going deep on next-gen geothermal with Roland Horne, professor of earth sciences and head of the geothermal program, Stanford University Of the next-generation geothermal approaches now nearing market, which are actually ready to scale, and what would it take for geothermal to work outside the few places it works today?
  7. Catalyst · 28 Mar 2024 The electricity gauntlet has arrived with Andy Lubershane, partner and head of research, Energy Impact Partners Everyone has suddenly woken up to the fact that electricity demand is outrunning our ability to supply it. Now that the problem is mainstream, what actually happens next, and is the alarm overdone?
  8. Catalyst · 16 Nov 2023 The cost of nuclear with Jessica Lovering, co-founder and executive director, Good Energy Collective Building a reactor in South Korea costs about a quarter what it costs in the United States. Why, and what would actually make American nuclear cheap?
  9. Catalyst · 10 Aug 2023 Beaming 24/7 solar from space with Sanjay Vijendran, lead for the Solaris initiative on space-based solar power, European Space Agency Is beaming solar power down from orbit a serious energy option, or is it still science fiction?
  10. 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?