How can the U.S. re-industrialize in a way that better responds to the needs of workers and the climate crisis?
Patty Wexler, Apoorv Bhargava, Bayard Winthrop, and Clea Kolster join Marshall Kosloff to chat about the future of business in a new American economy at #NewCommonSense

Thanks, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸 (he was the first person outside of my mom or dad or YC to see the BIG potential in Reddit)

U.S. Department of Energy Zap Energy Dave Turk NRC Jeff Merrifield Rep. Zoe Lofgren Over $6b has been invested in fusion companies worldwide. Phil Larochelle Breakthrough Energy, Michael Teodori eni, Clea Kolster @lowercarboncapital, Charles Boakye Jefferies, and Megan Wilson General Fusion break down the investment status and what should come next for the industry.

Drivers need better EV batteries, and they just got them. Battery wizards Breathe Battery Technologies’s new software dramatically cuts charge time. With just a download. It’s no surprise Volvo is putting it in their next-gen EVs, creating some serious competitor FOMO.

We won’t fix the climate from a cushy office.

Just ask Seabound founders Alisha Fredriksson and Roujia Wen. They spent months at sea to prove out their world-first carbon capture for ships.

Dive into their game-changing tech and life-changing adventure here lowercarboncapital.com/2024/03/06/don…

High-purity American lithium, coming to a battery near you.

Lilac Solutions, our clean lithium company, is using their $145M Series C to put meat on the bones of EV targets everywhere.

Dig in👇 lowercarboncapital.com/2024/02/14/lit…

One of the big things holding us back from building a lithium industry in our own backyard has been, well, that it would wreck the backyard. The team Lilac Solutions has the fix. Now they've got a fresh $145m to produce lithium as American as apple pie. lowercarboncapital.com/2024/02/14/lit…

Lithium as American as baseball and apple pie?

Yep, our clean lithium company Lilac Solutions is making it happen. Now, with $145M in fresh capital, they’re doubling down on a US lithium supply chain.
lowercarboncapital.com/2024/02/14/lit…

The mining industry moves tens of gigatons of material every year: more mass than all other heavy industry combined, and therefore, one of the largest opportunities for carbon removal.

Cross-industry coordination like this is key to unlocking that potential!

My fellow partner Dr. Christina Chang Lowercarbon Capital is an absolute gem. Chief among her too-long-to-recount list of superpowers is her earnest belief that ANYONE can work on climate. She talked about it at MIT today, but you can read for yourself here: lowercarboncapital.com/2023/11/21/tim…

More lithium for less money, land, and water. That's been the promise of Lilac Solutions. Now the results from their latest commercial scale plant are in, and they delivered: 80% Li recovery, 99.9% impurity rejection, 2000 cycles and counting, with 10x less water and land. LFG.

Lying to the world about the trajectory we’re very obviously on (2-3c warming) is just climate denial 2.0 and similarly unproductive for deploying solutions. We should stop doing it and plan for the actual future and its impacts. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Mining companies are sitting on billions of dollars of tailings liabilities — but it turns out they’re also gigaton-scale carbon removal opportunities. We led Arca’s seed round because they turn liability to asset for the biggest in the industry. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

One more time, for the people in the back.

Squeezing more juice out of lithium-ion batteries? Sign us up, yesterday 🤩

Breathe Battery Technologies built physics-based software that fast-charges batteries 43% faster and 2X's their high-capacity life. Now they've got a line out the door of auto OEMs racing to beat range anxiety ⚡️

The actual point of 'all (or most) of the above' is literally that taking more shots on goal *now* enables us to more quickly and confidently eliminate non-viable ideas... while also getting started on viable ones so they can be operating at scale when we need them.

I asked chatGPT to create 8-bit/pixelated versions of climate tech startups in DALL·E 3. I'm digging this future.

1. Commonwealth Fusion Systems fusion reactor

10. and of course, Solugen decarbonizing chemical manufacturing using the bioforge

Thank you Forbes and Alex Knapp for giving me a chance to talk about the founders and innovators building in fusion!

For founders wondering what funds are still investing...

The most active climate investors by count of H1'23 deals: Breakthrough Energy Lowercarbon Capital Climate Capital Temasek Collab Fund MCJ Collective Energy Impact Partners SOSV - Deep Tech for Human and Planetary Health Fifth Wall S2G Ventures Prelude Ventures