Shayle Kann
Shayle Kann is a partner at Energy Impact Partners, the leading venture capital fund investing in companies shaping the future of energy and infrastructure, where he leads the firm’s investments at the frontier of climate tech. He is also the host of Catalyst, a podcast from Latitude Media that tackles big questions about how to decarbonize the planet.
How to make use of biomass — and biowaste — without impacting global food supply
Shayle and his colleagues explore the challenging economics of two technologies — and what would have to change to make them work.
How do we fix the sometimes frustrating customer experience of getting a heat pump?
We need to prevent leakage and replace high-impact refrigerants with alternatives.
Techno-economic analyses help investors and entrepreneurs answer the question of how a technology will compete.
A new National Academies report explores some uncharted questions around methane removal.
What will it take to get buyers, developers, contractors, and others on board with low-carbon cement?
There’s more to China’s manufacturing advantage than subsidies and cheap labor.
Climeworks’ CFO Andreas Aepli on the challenges of scaling up DAC
Google DeepMind’s Ekin Dogus Cubuk says AI may be more useful for optimizing existing materials than for discovering new ones.
Which industries need tech breakthroughs, and which need to scale existing solutions?
A growing list of technologies could help us adapt to climate change — and potentially turn a profit, too.
Capturing natural gas from oil wells seems like a no-brainer. Why do oil producers still flare it?
Koloma CEO Pete Johnson says that geologic hydrogen, if proven out, would be “world-changing” for the energy transition.
Building reactors in South Korea is far cheaper than building in the U.S., but why?