If you could learn from any person in clean energy or climate tech who has built a successful company, built a company/technology that didn't succeed, or who changed the industry in some way by doing something difficult -- who would it be?

In the latest episode, Shayle Kann talks to Christian Belady, former Microsoft vice president now focusing on data center advanced development, about whether chip efficiency gains can save us from ballooning data center energy demands: latitudemedia.com/news/catalyst-…

Biden will leave office with the strongest climate record of any president—making the largest ever investment in clean energy, regulating to reduce pollution from cars & power plants, bolstering clean energy supply chain resilience, & reasserting US global climate leadership. 🙏

Hard for me to support someone with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans women, hates immigrants like me. He may cut my taxes or reduce some regulation but that is no reason to accept depravity in his personal values. Do you want President who will set back climate by a

Vice President Kamala Harris has a long record on climate change and environmental justice you probably haven't heard enough about. I've been digging into her background and this woman is a climate champion. Can't wait for her to be PRESIDENT! Here are the receipts... THREAD!

If we’re being honest, we’ve all already felt this coming — but now the data is definitive. The H1’2024 climate tech funding market has fallen back to 2020 levels.

I used Midjourney v6 to reimagine famous artwork in an aesthetic inspired by Stanley Kubrick films. The results are unreal. 1. “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci

SCOOP: OpenAI may lose $5B this year & may run out of cash in 12 months, unless they raise more $, per analysis The Information. Investors should ask: What is their moat? Unique tech? What is their route in profitability when Meta is giving away similar tech for free? Do they

The Moral Bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Everything you need to know about Silicon Valley. Thank you, The Verge. h/t: Jason Kint theverge.com/2024/7/24/2420…

Wow. AEP: "Regarding data center load, we have commitments from customers for more than 15 gigawatts of incremental load by [2030], mostly driven by large load opportunities. To put this in perspective, AEP's system-wide peak load at the end of last year was 35 gigawatts. We

NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO Jim VandeHei just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business”

I am constantly seeking out comparisons like this in order to tune my brain to spotting AI. I highly recommend adding this to your regular brain exercises.

Via Scientific American: A weird asteroid from beyond Jupiter is almost certainly what killed the dinosaurs. "The doom of the dinosaurs and the dawn of mammals were set eons ago by the very same process that helped kick-start life on our planet in the first place." scientificamerican.com/article/astero…

Tension is building in the world of artificial intelligence. On Sept 18, Latitude is holding its next Frontier Forum, a free, virtual event with Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller exploring multiple sides of the AI-energy nexus. Register now: latitudemedia.com/events/an-ener…

A fresh scoop from Maeve Allsup: the distributed battery startup Swell is shutting down and liquidating its assets, highlighting difficulties in the VPP market. The company had raised over $100 million. latitudemedia.com/news/scoop-swe…

Our Latitude Media reporter Maeve Allsup is pulling in some really solid scoops. In her latest piece, she reports some inside details about why Northvolt just shut down the lithium metal company Cuberg, which it acquired in 2021. latitudemedia.com/news/how-north…

A new study from Berkeley Lab finds that community opposition and ordinances limiting renewable development are the “leading causes of project delays and cancellations." The amount of industry money spent on it, however, is negligible. latitudemedia.com/news/local-opp…

Last year, oil producers flared the associated gas equivalent of about half the global carbon emissions of aviation over a 30-year period. But gas is valuable. So why are we burning it? On the latest episode, Shayle Kann talks to an International Energy Agency methane expert: latitudemedia.com/news/catalyst-…

❗️ With data in through August 2024, the globe has now set atmospheric moisture records for 14 consecutive months, with the streak starting in July 2023... This has influenced an increase in the coverage of upper decile (top 10%) rainfall events. The increase in water vapor, a