Tim De Chant

Microsoft has made some big strides on sustainability in recent years, but its push into AI and cloud services has imperiled that progress. https://t.co/tpTIGWBziT

Scoop! NIF, the world's only net-positive fusion facility, has managed to produce even more energy, nearly doubling its previous capability. https://t.co/7gAHN2koCK

Scoop: The Nuclear Company has raised nearly $50 million in funding to develop reactors on sites with some level of regulatory approval. The strategy should help speed construction, but the first electrons still won't flow until the early 2030s. https://t.co/DtwmBwQ39p

Armed with $900 million, Pacific Fusion's president, Will Regan, told me how his startup is going to build a fusion power plant. https://t.co/GNsASWQN5h

I've talked with so many fusion startups that are all targeting the early 2030s for their power plants. But none of them have mentioned a crucial detail: how they'll be fueled. Now, one startup has emerged to fill that gap. https://t.co/MUysFHpM80

Microsoft has been betting big on carbon removal, but this is one of their biggest bets to date. They're buying nearly 4 million metric tons of carbon from an old industry — pulp and paper — that's ripe for climate tech. https://t.co/WHtvP94PX1

When someone says they're concerned about climate change, it's easy to jump to conclusions. But a startup has found some surprising facts about people across the climate spectrum, from people ready for action all the way to those who deny its happening. https://t.co/AydWqfQ1Zs

Sometimes AI does something no human would think to do. Sometimes that's a bad thing — we call them hallucinations — but sometimes it's not. To whit: Earth AI's recent discovery. https://t.co/1lCY8Lc3dB

A frontrunner in the race to fusion power marked a major milestone today: Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed its demonstration reactor's cryostat base, a 74-ton piece of stainless steel that forms the foundation of the tokamak itself. https://t.co/XmzH3g303S

Problem: AI. Solution: AI? The electrical grid is bracing for years of breakneck demand growth driven in part by tech companies' insatiable thirst for power. Nvidia thinks — unsurprisingly — that AI can solve problems which AI has created. https://t.co/Pzv0xZVVM8

Another day, another massive solar deal to power AI servers. https://t.co/cef4aUnVqd

General Fusion has been chipping away at its unique approach to fusion for years. Now, it's lighting up its latest prototype as new competitors give the startup fresh urgency. https://t.co/6CmNtGSuhC

Heavy batteries have been dragging down EVs, sapping range and making them less fund to drive. But a new startup that's just out of stealth is working with an inexpensive material that could transform batteries and battery manufacturing. https://t.co/e7531ndWBG

Mujeeb Ijaz returns to the corner office at Our Next Energy, just over a year after he stepped aside to serve as CTO. https://t.co/3Jj59YXoqA

I tend to think that interesting things happen at the edges, when one idea bumps up against another. Case in point: Renaissance Fusion, where plasma physics and semiconductor lithography have inspired a new take on the stellarator. https://t.co/tHs8UTEdey

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. https://t.co/Dpp8szVxWL

Nuclear startup X-Energy added another $200 million to an already significant fundraise from October. https://t.co/Ye1qc5BX71