A Podcast & Sourcing Letter
We explore the wildest research coming out of world-leading labs and the founders bold enough to try to scale it in the real world. From professors tackling the toughest climate questions to student builders wrestling with the hardest implementation challenges, we tell the unfiltered stories of ideas still in the oven.
Two-thirds of the global population will face water stress by 2050. Prof. Yaghi's metal-organic frameworks can pull drinking water from desert air at 7% humidity using only sunlight. The question is whether it can scale to the billions who need it.
A third of American households have no access to home EV charging. Voltpost retrofits existing streetlights into Level 2 chargers. Scott Fisher has spent 15 years building the EV charging industry and teaching it at Columbia. They debate what the grid can actually absorb.
Know a researcher or founder working on one of these? We want to hear from you.
Our inaugural issue is built around SF Climate Week and our first live podcast taping — Water / MOF at the Yaghi Lab. This issue maps the water-climate research landscape, the founders trying to scale it, and the gap between what the science says we can do and what the market is actually funding.
New modeling from Kolden et al. shows the cost-benefit case for federal burn programs is undeniable. The gap isn't science — it's regulatory capacity and community buy-in.
🔥 HotThree years after the lab demo, Boston Metal has now run 50+ heats at their commercial pilot facility in Woburn. The energy economics are tighter than expected.
👁 WatchA new Nature Geoscience paper models alkalinity plume dispersion in coastal waters. The carbon accounting looks solid. The permitting pathway does not.
In progressUncooked lives at the messy intersection of research and practice. We focus on the dirtiest, hardest-to-abate industries and the gritty, unglamorous work of climate adaptation — before solutions are polished, proven, or mainstream.
Each episode pairs a researcher with a founder working in the same problem space. The tension is the point. What the science says and what the market can bear are rarely the same thing.
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