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| May 21, 2025 | The economics of clean energy | Kara Miller: I’m Kara Miller.
Rob Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner.
KM: And from the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works? A podcast looking at the solutions for climate change.
Today we’re going to examine how the world’s most populou... |
| May 7, 2025 | Hydrogen beneath our feet | Kara Miller: I’m Kara Miller.
Rob Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner.
KM: And from the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What it it works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change.
Today we’re going to examine an energy source with... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Turning light into electricity | Kara Miller: From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works? Looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I’m Kara Miller.
Rob Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner.
KM: And today we’re joined by Moungi Bawendi. He’s a professor of ch... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Adding nuclear to the mix | Kara Miller: From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works? A podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I’m Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner.
KM: Today, we’re talking with Jacopo Buongiorno about a... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | The reality of capturing carbon | Kara Miller: From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I’m Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner.
KM: And this is What if it works?
We’re going to talk i... |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Projecting and reducing the global economic impacts of climate change | Modeling improvements needed to provide more reliable guidance to decision-makers, finds MIT-led study
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
Amplified by climate change, January’s wildfires in Los Angeles destro... |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward | Nancy W. Stauffer
In the race to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions, the buildings sector is falling behind. While carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the U.S. electric power sector dropped by 34 percent between 2005 and 2021, emissions ... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Why do so many renewable projects stall? | Kara Miller: From the MIT Energy Initiative. This is What if it works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I'm Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I'm Rob Stoner.
KM: So we talk a lot on this show about diffe... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | How to speed up the energy transition | Kara Miller: I'm Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I'm Rob Stoner.
KM: And this is What if it works?
From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I’m Kara Mi... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Decarbonizing energy: The government’s role | Kara Miller: I'm Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I'm Rob Stoner.
KM: And this is What if it works?
From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What If It Works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I'm Ka... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Rising to the climate challenge | Kara Miller I'm Kara Miller.
Rob Stoner And I'm Rob Stoner.
KM And this is What if it works?
From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works?—a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I'm Kara Mil... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Making the case for climate optimism | Kara Miller: I'm Kara Miller.
Robert Stoner: And I'm Rob Stoner.
KM: And this is What if it works?
From the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What If It Works?, a podcast looking at the energy solutions for climate change. I'm K... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Study: Fusion energy could play a major role in the global response to clim... | Nancy W. Stauffer
For many decades, fusion has been touted as the ultimate source of abundant, clean electricity. Now, as the world faces the need to reduce carbon emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change, making commercial fusion p... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Dr. Robert Stoner of MIT joins the Advisory Board of Energy Internet Corporation | Dr. Robert Stoner
EIC welcomes Dr.Stoner as xLDES commercialization approaches.
Long duration storage is one of the great unsolved problems of the clean energy transition. EIC’s low-cost approach offers hope, and I am delighted to join its ... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Young women are pranking their dads by saying they’re going to work on oil rigs. The responses are heartwarming: ‘Money can’t bring your life back.’ | When Jahkira Michelle, a 23-year-old college administration worker, prank-called her dad to say she landed an underwater welder apprenticeship for six weeks, she just wanted to hear his genuine reaction. She knew what to expect and he deliv... |
| Oct 22, 2023 | Solar Panels and Nuclear Energy | Watts Bar nuclear power plant complex in Tennesseegetty |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Feds must step in or renewable energy will have nowhere to go, says MIT report | Building wind and solar farms is an important part of building a new green grid, but a calm night stops their energy generation cold. It’s just as important to research and build green energy storage — and to that at scale requires federal ... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | How billionaire Chris Sacca’s $800 million fund plans to tackle climate change | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories delivered straight to your inbox each morning.
This story is part of The Path to Zero, a series of special reports on how business can lead the fight against climate change. This ... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Are electric cars ‘green’? The answer is yes, but it’s complicated | As electric cars become more popular, some question if they are as environmentally friendly as advertised — with some saying that greenhouse emissions during the manufacturing process and battery-charging have to be considered.
The number o... |
| Jul 5, 2021 | Silicon Valley Is Back In Cleantech. Will This Time Be Different? | In the early 2000s, Silicon Valley funded cleantech with little understanding of the traditional industries that were supposed to want its innovations. After losing billions of dollars, major Silicon Valley VCs decided that cleantech and VC... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Venture Firm Eyeing ‘System Changing’ Startups For Cleantech 2.0 | James Everett (L), Devin Whatley (2L), Sasha Brown (2R) Geoffrey Eisenberg (R) Ecosystem Integrity Fund |
| Jan 25, 2021 | What Would Nuclear Batteries Do For Us? | |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Top VCs name the 46 climate-tech startups to watch in 2021 | VCs are pouring money into climate-tech startups developing everything from batteries to machines that capture carbon emissions.
We asked 15 top firms and incubators, from Khosla Ventures to Greentown Labs, which startups they think are set... |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Top VCs name the 46 climate-tech startups to watch in 2021 | Fusion-energy startup General Fusion is among the 46 climate-tech startups that VCs say are set to pop in 2021 General Fusion
VCs are pouring money into climate-tech startups developing everything from batteries to machines that capture car... |
| Jun 1, 2020 | Renewable energy and the free market economy | Capitalism and the free market economy have helped create the world we live in today. This system has produced wealth, incentivized entrepreneurs to design innovative solutions, made people’s lives more comfortable, lifted a substantial por... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | How Big Oil’s COVID-19 Near-Death Experience May Be A Preview Of The Industry’s Ultimate Demise | Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih speaks to the press during a one-day OPEC+ group meeting ... [+] in the Saudi city of Jeddah on May 19, 2019. (Photo AMER HILABI)AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 19, 2019 | Hydrogen Truck Maker Nikola Claims It Has Breakthrough Battery Tech—And Doesn’t Care If You’re Skeptical | Nikola Motor CEO and Founder Trevor MiltonTim Pannell |
| Oct 20, 2019 | MIT Sloan Interview: How to succeed in clean energy investing by really trying | (by Meredith Somers, MIT Sloan) |
| Sep 12, 2019 | The necessary evil that is net metering | The system is structured so that the Legislative Branch creates the laws, the Executive Branch executes the laws, and the Judicial Branch oversees the application of the laws to determine if they are justly applied. This structure is in pla... |
| Sep 3, 2017 | The Pipeline Of U.S. Cleantech Startups Dries Up As VCs Withhold Dollars | 54 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The early-demise of Solyndra, a Silicon Valley startup that manufactured solar panels and collapsed in 2011, is still vivid in our collective consciousness. Solyndra not only let down big-name inves... |
| Aug 1, 2017 | Varun Sivaram: The Hamilton of the solar industry | Editor’s note: This is the second in the #Solar100 Interview Series conducted by KWh Analytics and syndicated by pv magazine USA. The first interview with Danny Kennedy can be read here.
Even before his meteoric jump within weeks, starting ... |
| Apr 24, 2017 | Some resources on grid integration of renewables for Rick Perry | Last week, we reported on new Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposed inquiry into whether wind and solar are making the electricity grid less stable. The memo as leaked to Bloomberg News rang our alarm bells at pv magazine, as some of us ha... |
| Feb 18, 2017 | Guest column: Third-party energy resources are the future of the electric grid | This column first appeared on the website of the Lexington Institute, where Constance Douris is a vice president.
Electric utilities in California make money from investments for traditional infrastructure, such as power lines, poles, and w... |
| Dec 29, 2016 | MIT report questions value of distributed solar | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), long a skeptic of distributed-solar assets’ usefulness, issued a report that suggests large-scale, utility-controlled solar assets may make better economic sense in the long-run.
A 384-page r... |
| Dec 11, 2016 | Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and 18 others commit $1 billion to new cleantech fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma, John Doerr and 15 other high-profile investors have formed a new venture firm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, that will pour at least $1 billion into cleantech companies over the next 20 years.
... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | Report finds net metering is not sustainable over the long-term | The actual value to the grid that rooftop solar provides is a subject of great controversy in the United States, particularly as it pertains to net metering.
On one side, you have utilities claiming a “cost shift” to non-solar customers. On... |
| GSPV Quoted in Commercial Observer Article: Investors Jump Into PropTech Designed To Make Buildings Greener | They got burned the last time there was such a land rush. Will it happen again? |
| Electrek morning green energy brief: Solar policy trends of 2016, microgrids are hard, fossil fuels are easy and more! | The top 5 solar power policy trends of 2016 – As solar penetration is increasing, we’re starting to see the electricity utilities get more aggressive at using “political jujitsu” to manipulate the legal system. Many laws – such as Nevada ca... |
| Electrek green energy brief: A path to 10TW, India manufacturing capacity, China does offshore wind, more | A path to 10TW (but actually about solar cell consistency in manufacturing) – The article is about finding a solution to the 10% or so of solar cells that go bad in the first six months of sunlight exposure – good research. What I found mor... |
| Four climate investors explain the new boom — where the money’s going and risks ahead | Clean energy is attracting billions of dollars, but as the pace of the transition accelerates climate investing is just getting started, according to four investors in the space.
“I think we’re early days,” Eli Aheto, managing director at G... |
| Investor Vinod Khosla says focusing on 2030 climate targets is the wrong approach | Vinod Khosla, the founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, says 2040 is the more important goal post in combating climate change than 2030.
Khosla, who cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 an... |
| Electrek green energy brief: 850MW of solar from space, Bubba loves solar, customized solar panels, more | NASA takes a cool picture – Link is to NASA’s website, with an easy before and after comparison system. 850MW of solar PV, some mountains, and a river from space. Pretty cool.
Co-location of solar & pollinator friendly plants – NREL did... |
| Electrek morning green energy brief: The Sun Tax, Utility lobbying, Storage market bubbly coming to Massachusetts and more! | Sun Tax doubled on Spanish islands – If I build a thing to take advantage of the environment and I gain economic benefit from it, does the state deserve a piece? Yes – society has a hand in the creation of the stability that allows so much ... |
| EGEB: Massachusetts’ underwhelming energy storage goal, wind power – a decent education, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Massachusetts Sets 200 Megawatt-Hour Energy Storage Target – First, great job Massachusetts at putting a toe in the wate... |
| How the public and private sectors are working to enhance access to electric-vehicle charging stations in rural areas | An EV charging station. Francis Energy
Rural drivers have been slow to adopt EVs because they often lack access to charging infrastructure.
The Biden administration has put $7.5 billion toward 500,000 EV chargers to address the issue.
Priva... |
| Meet the 21 rising stars who are transforming the future of clean energy and taking on a $16 trillion opportunity | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
An enormous transition is underway across the electric grid.Power plants that run on fossil fuels are being replaced by solar panels and wi... |
