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Cutting Through the Climate Tech Hype and Looking for Profit
“Hydrogen is the Swiss Army knife of energy,” Eric Toone of Breakthrough Energy Ventures says on Zero. It’s a “complete and total game changer.”
Nuclear power station cooling towers.
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When it comes to climate technology, what’s hype and what’s not?
On this week’s Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi puts this question to Eric Toone of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Breakthrough is one of the world’s biggest funders of early stage climate technologies and has poured billions of dollars in more than 120 startups. Toone, a former chemistry professor, is responsible for assessing various startups’ viability — both as science experiments and as businesses.