Since a lot of people have been asking: yes the USA strategic cheese reserve is real but no, we're not in any risk of a cheese shortage. The reserve has more to do with protecting the dairy industry. Either way, more energy storage please! npr.org/2019/01/09/683…

So many interesting nuggets here if you are curious about what makes for a compelling startup at the forefront of energy and climate! climatetechvc.substack.com/p/white-hot-ca…

Pro tip: pour the tortilla chip scraps into a bowl of salsa and eat it like cereal. #zerowaste

Mea culpa: I haven't taken down the Christmas lights in over 3 years. When you are supporting founders solving the world's biggest problems, sometimes the small things just never get done

🎉Congrats to unspun™ for becoming a Certified B Corp! In a world rife with greenwashing, unspun stands out as a team that deeply cares about making the world a better place.

How should I feel about flared methane being used for Bitcoin mining? This is net climate positive right??

With tech stocks falling, Saudi Aramco is now the world's most valuable company. I wonder if by 2030 we ever see a fossil fuel company take the top spot ever again.

Spot on. This highlights one of the reasons getting Brazil, India, Russian, China, etc into the climate fight is critical. We need to empower the entire world to flex their unique super powers and get carbon atoms out of the air!

I'm gradually coming to terms with the fact that Disney+ is raising my kids

Great paper highlighting some challenges with building the hydrogen infrastructure. Any obvious solutions to embrittlement other than heat?

These UFOs must be monitoring twitter - I'm cool with you watching us like a creepy neighbor but share some cool climate tech please??vice.com/en/article/3ad…

I wish we would celebrate the spirit behind Meta. A large successful company choosing to take existential risks is wonderful to behold

Being a founder can be lonely. In climate it can be especially so with the weight of the world on your shoulders. So glad we could get the community together and celebrate the fact that we're ultimately all on the same team!

Exact same thing is true for VCs - founders deserve partners who work as fast and hard as they do!

What we're seeing with Twitter isn't a generational genius revealing himself to be a rabid idiot, but just the latest cycle of cultural martyrdom. We have a tendency to deify people, then tear them down soon after, with both based on unfair expectations.

Traveling through the airport with 2 kids, I'm acutely aware that I'm a walking advertisement for birth control