The Green Blueprint

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• The pivot that reinvented the air conditioner

  October 7, 2026 · 44 min

  While living in Delhi, Sorin Grama gave a window air conditioner to an employee. He found out weeks later she wasn't using it because the electricity costs were too high. It was a stark reminder that access to global cooling isn't about…

• How “Black Sand” could help build a domestic battery supply chain

  September 23, 2026 · 44 min

  When David Fauvre and his co-founder entered the battery space in 2015, they started as brokers exporting American battery waste to recycling partners in Korea and Japan. But as the industry grew, shipping companies increasingly refused to…

• Burying trees to save forests?

  September 9, 2026 · 45 min

  “Good fires" naturally regenerate forests. But a rise in high-severity blazes in the American West are leaving behind barren moonscapes filled with dead trees. These scorched trees act as hazardous fuel for future fires, but clearing them…

• The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall

  August 26, 2026 · 47 min

  To build the physical infrastructure of the clean energy transition — from wind turbines and grid stabilization to massive new AI data centers — the world needs more copper between now and 2050 than humanity has produced in its entire…

• Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?

  August 12, 2026 · 49 min

  For decades, the promise of new nuclear power in the West has been stifled not by the technology itself, but by the “construction problem.” Massive, multi-billion dollar mega-projects plagued by schedule creep and labor shortages have made…

• The missing capital for climate startups: more debt

  July 29, 2026 · 44 min

  Climate tech companies are often forced to rely on expensive equity to bridge the gap between government grant awards and the cash needed to get projects off the ground. But for founders building the physical infrastructure of the clean…

• The ‘brutal reality’ of scaling low-carbon fertilizer

  July 15, 2026 · 43 min

  Nitrogen fertilizer is essential for global food security, yet its production is a hyper-centralized, fossil-fuel-intensive process that accounts for 5 to 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As geopolitical instability threatens…

• Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough

  July 1, 2026 · 45 min

  Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionized energy storage, but inexpensive, truly long-duration batteries may still have a significant role to play in backing renewables and decarbonizing the grid. Form Energy is tackling that challenge…