Fear and Loathing in Aberdeen. ECHR Judgment Day. Data Centre Problems, and $4 Trillion LDES Solutions

Welcome back to Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations. This episode was supposed to come out last week. But Man plans and God laughs.

Fortunately, and thanks to the amazing skills of voice and production wunderkind Theodore Delevan, we’re able to bring you this slightly-delayed episode.

• Our roundtable discussion with veteran journos and analysts: Jonathan Leake, Energy Editor at the Daily Telegraph; and Ryan Chilcote, former energy correspondent for CNN and Bloomberg. We get into

  • Fear & Loathing in Aberdeen after North Sea Oil

  • An epochal ECHR ruling that climate protection is a human right

  • A sneak peak at DESNZ’s solar plan

  • Critical mineral alliances

  • + much more

• Additionally, this episode features abridged interviews with Stephen Crosher, CEO of “medium duration” high-density pumped hydro player RheEnergise; and Chris Adams of the Green Web Foundation, who share their pioneering work in energy storage and whether that work can help stop the Internet from remaining the world’s biggest coal-powered machine. Stay tuned for the full interviews with Stephen and Chris - only for subscribers at wickedproblems.earth.

Links and Resources

• Green Web Foundation

• Mr. Chris Adams on LinkedIn

• RheEnergise

• Jonathan Leake at Daily Telegraph

• Ryan Chilcote on LinkedIn

• Pilita Clark on “What if emissions went down instead of up” in the FT

Thanks

Join us next time on Wicked Problems for more insightful conversations at the intersection of society's most challenging issues and the innovative minds tackling them.