The Mandate of Heaven (or Hell)

Sam Fankhauser on IRA Repeal; Freya Pratty on Kraken and Climate Tech Lingo Bingo; Ben Nelmes & Ben Kilbey on EV Sales. And highlights from Carbon Trust's energy transition event.

It’s a good week to be in Britain. Yes, I am serious. Not just for the reason that I’m not within shouting distance of the dramatic dissolution of the most powerful state in the history of humanity. But actually because my adopted country is trying - and succeeding more than most - to do the right thing when it comes to climate solutions, innovation, and crafting a future our grandkids won’t curse us for leaving them.

A lot of that optimism came from being at The Carbon Trust’s Energy Transition Acceleration Forum (might want to workshop that). One of the highlights was a public interview by Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi (a Wicked Problems alum in good standing) of the UK’s clean power by 2030 tsar Chris Stark (a future Wicked Problems alum, even if it kills us).

We could have tried to gazzump Akshat’s interview, as the event wasn’t under The Rule and even was livestreamed. But that would be gauche. You should listen to the whole interview on Akshat’s Zero podcast episode, which dropped at l…