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We offer authoritative features related to Climate Tech ventures, focused on Agricultural Technology, Grid Modernization and Resiliency, and Post-Carbon Industry.
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2026 Videoconference Schedule
Next year we will hold monthly video calls with CTVR subscribers and patrons in which we will answer your climate tech questions.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ESS Tech Q3 Earnings: Promising Tech, Slow Traction

The flow battery technology is solid—no fires, 25+ year lifespan, made from iron/salt/water instead of Chinese lithium.

But Q3 numbers show the challenge. Full Q3 breakdown and what it means for investors.

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ESS Tech (GWH) Quarterly Earnings
The tech seems promising but I and many investors are getting frustrated by the lack of traction
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December 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CTVR Newsfeed December 14, 2025

The U.K. built massive wind farms in Scotland. Now they're paying to shut them down.

Why? The grid can't move the power south.

This is the real constraint on clean energy. Not panels. Not turbines. The wires.

Full story ctvr.substack.com/p/ctvr-newsf...

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CTVR Newsfeed for December 14, 2025
The U.K. built the wind turbines. It just didn’t build the wires.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Zanskar Geothermal used AI to discover a massive underground energy source in Nevada—with zero surface clues. No hot springs. No steam. Nothing visible. The kicker: Underground heat could power the entire U.S. with clean, 24/7 electricity.

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Digging Deep for Clean Energy
Zanskar is leveraging AI to make geothermal energy a practically unlimited source of clean, reliable baseload power to U.S. consumers.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Ten years ago, we were racing toward 4°C of warming by 2100. Today? We've bent that curve to under 3°C.

Paris Agreement didn't solve climate change. But it proved we can change course.

The catch? We're still moving in the wrong direction. Just slower.

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CTVR Newsfeed for November 30, 2025
The Paris Agreement is ten years old. The world didn’t meet its goals, but it also didn’t fail in the way many once feared.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Origin just dropped Q3 earnings—and the PET cap rollout is gaining momentum.

PET caps are now in California stores. Berlin Packaging placed its first order. Production lines scaling on schedule. $54M cash + new financing secured.

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Origin Materials (ORGN) Quarterly Earnings
Q3 2025 saw progress commercializing PET caps. The company secured financing, advanced bottle cap tech toward commercial scale, received initial orders, and began ramping manufacturing.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
CTVR Newsfeed December 7, 2025

The climate debate has shifted from if to who controls the story. Most see it as a threat, yet action stalls. The problem isn't awareness—it's confusion, fatigue, and deliberate manipulation.

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CTVR Newsfeed for December 7, 2025
The fight over climate change isn’t just about emissions anymore. It’s about who controls the story.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We sat down with Anna Podmanická from Team Pura, the grand prize winners of The Earth Prize 2025, and she shared a powerful perspective that challenges how we think about waste.
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The Earth Prize 2025: Anna Podmanická
YouTube video by Climate Tech Venture Review
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December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In 2023, global hydropower output dropped by the amount an entire mid-sized nation consumes annuall, the biggest collapse in 60 years.

The issue: These dams were built for rivers that don't exist anymore. We designed them for the old climate.

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CTVR Newsfeed for November 23, 2025
When precipitation patterns change, the old renewable energy standby of hydropower starts to have problems. Welcome to the post-Climate world.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
From CTVR Newsfeed

The atmosphere holds 35 Mississippi Rivers worth of water—12% more than 85 years ago. These invisible streams now dump a year's rain in hours. Our maps, infrastructure, and planning can't keep up.

Why we're dangerously unprepared 👇

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CTVR Newsfeed for November 16, 2025
The atmosphere has changed—and so has patterns of precipitation. Floods now remind us how unready we are for a world with heavier rains.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Energy Vault secured $250M to power the Balkans with massive battery storage, LanzaTech secured €40M from the EU to convert smokestack pollution into jet fuel, and Carbon Clean partnered with Samsung to reduce carbon capture by 50%.

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CTVR Updates for November 06, 2025
Energy Vault's inks another energy storage deal and LanzaTech won a big award to build a facility in Norway. Among startups, Carbon Clean has a new partnership with a big name
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November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
From CTVR Newsfeed

🌱 Climate change isn't solved in the sky—it's solved in the dirt.

New research reveals the most effective way to lock carbon away for years: roots. Not tech. Not offsets. Just living, working soil doing what it's designed to do.

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CTVR Newsfeed for November 9, 2025
Soil restoration isn’t slow—it’s foundational. The real climate work starts beneath our feet.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Amazon generates $120 billion annually standing versus $2 billion cleared—a 60:1 ratio. Yet Brazil's Amazon emits CO₂ per capita like Qatar for minimal return. Brazil's proposed $125 billion fund would pay countries to preserve forests.

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CTVR Newsfeed for November 2, 2025
The Amazon isn’t just a forest—it’s a $3 trillion natural asset quietly powering Brazil’s economy and cooling the planet. Preserving it isn’t charity. It’s sound economics.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Two teenagers from Europe are tackling "The Silent Epidemic." We sat down with 18-year-old Tomáš and 19-year-old Anna to discuss their novel process for filtering antibiotic-laden wastewater.

See how they're doing it → ctvr.substack.com/p/the-earth-...
The Earth Prize’s Global Call For Gen-Alpha Climate Innovators
Teachers, community leaders, and parents should encourage budding scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply for The Earth Prize 2026 before January 31, 2026.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
From Forbes Reprints:

Companies fund tree planting but rarely know if they actually survive. Canadian startup Veritree uses GPS tracking, trail cameras, and live dashboards to prove every tree is real and alive. 50 million trees verified in 5 years.

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November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
From CTV Updates

ESS Tech just locked in $40M in new funding. Viridi's fail-safe battery system earns finalist spot for Small Business Innovator of the Year. And Arenko expands its AI grid optimization platform into the US, Germany, and Ireland.

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October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
From Forbes Reprints:

Nuclear fuel that physically cannot melt down. TRISO particles—each the size of a poppyseed—make Fukushima-style disasters impossible. Until now, only China and Russia could produce it commercially.

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Will Standard Nuclear’s TRISO Fuel A New Nuclear Age?
Nuclear energy is staging a comeback powered by surging demand for carbon-free electricity. One company is selling super-safe fuel to advanced reactor startups.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
From CTVR Newsfeed

🚨 The Amazon is failing — and we're about to shut off the only satellite watching it happen.

CO₂ is spiking faster than it has in 70 years. Drought and heat have turned Earth’s greatest carbon sponge into a failing system.

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CTVR Newsfeed for October 26, 2025
The Amazon’s lungs are weakening — and we might soon lose the instruments tracking their final breaths.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Billions of people will face water scarcity in the next 20 years. But 143 breakthrough teams are racing to change that equation. Abu Dhabi is backing the boldest water innovation prize in history—because some problems demand moonshot thinking.
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CTVR Newsfeed for October 17, 2025

California's mega batteries now supply a quarter of peak power. Globally, storage capacity is set to increase 10x by 2035. The missing piece of renewable energy? It's not missing anymore.

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CTVR Newsfeed for October 18, 2025
From oil barrels to battery silos: Energy storage isn’t just a technology shift — it’s the foundation of resilience for a renewable world.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
CTV Updates for October 18, 2025

Xerion earns Time Magazine recognition, Flocean is cutting costs and carbon with underwater desalination. And Regenified is building the infrastructure to scale regenerative agriculture

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CTVR Updates for October 18, 2025
Two companies we have featured were selected for Time Magazine's "Inventions of the Year" list. Regenerative agriculture is moving forward, ESS Tech (GWH) is treading water.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When the world's leading water experts gather in one room, you listen. Erik moderated a panel with the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, the International Desalination Association, and the World Economic Forum. The consensus? We can't wait another decade to solve water scarcity.
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our founder Erik Kobayashi-Solomon moderated the XPRIZE Water Scarcity event in New York during Climate Week. Sponsored by Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative, this prize is tackling one of humanity's most critical challenges. Watch for our upcoming Forbes article on this.
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
From Forbes Reprints:

Nine Rhode Island housing authorities just teamed up on a solar project that'll save them $35M over 20 years. California water districts are slashing costs with solar farms. The reason? It's not ideology, it's economics.

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Municipalities Love Solar Farms Even If Trump Doesn’t
The Trump administration seems dead set on killing solar and wind in favor of mythical “clean coal,” but renewables are too cost-effective for municipalities to ignore.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
CTVR Newsfeed for October 12, 2025

Earth's natural carbon vaults are maxing out.

For decades, our forests and soils have quietly absorbed 1/3 of our CO₂ emissions. But new research shows they're reaching their breaking point.

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CTVR Newsfeed for October 12, 2025
Earth’s forests and soils have quietly protected us for decades. Now, the planet’s natural carbon vaults are nearing capacity — and the line between resilience and collapse is thinner than we think.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM