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Abigail Hunter on Critical Minerals Innovation in US National Labs
Abigail Hunter, Executive Director of SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, argues that national labs are essential incubators for new technologies in exploration, processing, and materials.
Policy, Risk, and New Supply Chains for Critical Minerals
Abigail Hunter, Executive Director of SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, explains how the United States and its allies can reduce strategic risk from highly concentrated critical mineral supply chains.
How to Finance First-of-a-Kind Critical Mineral Projects
Cindy Jia, Managing Director and Head of the Sustainable Solutions Group Americas at ING, explains to Constructive’s Jake Wellman how critical mineral technologies move from lab experiments to bankable commercial assets, and why many stall in between.
Misunderstood and Manageable
Next-generation geothermal technologies have fundamentally changed the risk profile of geothermal investment, and capital markets have not caught up - creating a bottleneck to scaling the geothermal industry. This new paper by the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium proposes a structure to help investors and policymakers understand and shift their risk frameworks and also provides examples of targeted, revenue-neutral public/private drilling insurance programs that can help accelerate that shift.
Batteries, batteries, batteries
In this video with Harry Krejsa from Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology, Harry explains why we urgently need to scale up electrotech - especially batteries - to meet skyrocketing energy demand.
Electrotech moneyball
In this video with Harry Krejsa from Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST), Harry talks about their new research paper "Electrotech Moneyball" and why ranking risks properly is key to deploying electrotech fast.
Electrotech is reliable infrastructure
The current crisis has everyone talking about the energy security argument for electrotech. In this video with Harry Krejsa from Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology and Constructive's Susan Kish, Harry breaks down why electrotech is more reliable - and why we need to make the right decisions now around manufacturing.
Level the Playing Field
Constructive's CEO Susan Kish sits down with Kingsmill Bond, Principal at Ember Energy and one of the leading voices behind the Electrotech Revolution to ask: what exactly is electrotech? What’s driving the electrotech revolution? And, why are we calling it “Energy After Fire”?
From Rich Man’s Toy to Unbeatable on Price
Constructive's CEO Susan Kish sits down with Kingsmill Bond, Principal at Ember Energy and one of the leading voices behind the Electrotech Revolution to ask: what exactly is electrotech? What’s driving the electrotech revolution? And, why are we calling it “Energy After Fire”?
Electrotech 101 with Kingsmill Bond
Constructive's CEO Susan Kish sits down with Kingsmill Bond, Principal at Ember Energy and one of the leading voices behind the Electrotech Revolution to ask: what exactly is electrotech? What’s driving the electrotech revolution? And, why are we calling it “Energy After Fire”?
Canary Media: Geothermal energy gets boost from new coalition of Western governors
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah are joining forces to accelerate deployment of clean, around-the-clock geothermal energy in the region.
Heatmap Exclusive: Western States Form New Bipartisan Geothermal Consortium
The effort brings together leaders of four Mountain West states with nonprofit policy expertise to help speed financing and permitting for development…