Katie Brigham
Climate Tech Reporter at Heatmap News
climate tech reporter @heatmap_news | formerly @CNBC | mostly elsewhere: https://t.co/dCTI2TOg0J
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1 week ago |
heatmap.news | Katie Brigham
When I reached out to climate tech investors on Tuesday to gauge their reaction to the Senate’s proposed overhaul of the clean energy tax credits, I thought I might get a standard dose of can-do investor optimism. Though the proposal from the Senate Finance committee would cut tax credits for wind and solar, it would preserve them for other sources of clean energy, such as geothermal, nuclear, and batteries — areas of significant focus and investment for many climate-focused venture firms.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Katie Brigham
The House offered a last minute olive branch to the increasingly bipartisan nuclear industry when it passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill now working its way through the Senate, opting to preserve tax credit eligibility for so-called “advanced nuclear facilities” that start construction by 2029. That deadline will be difficult for many nuclear companies to meet, regardless of their technological approach or reactor size.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Katie Brigham
At one point during his 12-year stint at SpaceX, Doug Bernauer turned his attention to powering a Martian colony with nuclear microreactors. Naturally, these would also fuel the rocket ships that could shuttle Mars-dwellers to and from Earth as needed. Then he had an epiphany.“I quickly realized that yes, nuclear power could help humanity become multiplanetary in the long term, but it could also transform life on Earth right now,” Bernauer wrote in 2023. Indeed it can.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Katie Brigham
When Donald Trump first became a serious Presidential candidate in 2015, many big tech leaders sounded the alarm. When the U.S. threatened to exit the Paris Agreement for the first time, companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook (now Meta) took out full page ads in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal urging Trump to stay in. He didn’t — and Elon Musk, in particular, was incensed.
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2 weeks ago |
heatmap.news | Katie Brigham
The good news is pouring in for the next-generation geothermal developer Fervo Energy. On Tuesday the company reported that it was able to drill its deepest and hottest geothermal well to date in a mere 16 days. Now on Wednesday, the company is announcing an additional $206 million in financing for its Cape Station project in Utah.
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nuclear got a reprieve in the latest version of the budget bill, but the carveout that extends tax credit eligibility for new nuclear does NOT include fusion, which may now ~truly~ be on the verge of commercialization https://t.co/eKd443dzGV
RT @AlexCKaufman: America's ability to commercialize its fusion energy breakthroughs is seriously jeopardized by the current state of Repub…
microreactor company @RadiantNuclear looks well positioned to be the nuclear company of the Trump admin's dreams, as it seeks to commercialize 1 mw microreactors for military bases and other remote outposts by 2028 https://t.co/gMp41Nrj4S
