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Matthew Kim

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  • Each gallon of diesel consumed, for example, results in about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide that must be stored on the vehicle, he said. “What can be equally challenging is the space that it takes,” he said, adding that the 20 pounds of carbon dioxide would occupy 1,000 gallons of space at exhaust pressures.
    Heavy-Duty Truck Operators to Test Startup’s Onboard Carbon-Capture System - WSJ
  • As a venture capital investor, Voyager invests in technology companies that we believe can create climate impact through meaningful commercial scale in under a decade.
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  • Investment from public and private sources is finally responding to both the urgency in stabilizing the climate and the massive opportunity in doing so. Since 2020, capital has flowed into climate technologies like never before: between the $40 billion in private capital raised for climate technology investment in 2021 and infrastructure to the $370 billion allocated by the United States to accelerate deployment of decarbonized technologies across the American economic system.
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  • We are, it is important to note, approaching liftoff in the accelerating adoption of renewable energy and decarbonized transportation. This is less for moral reasons than for practical ones: clean technologies are rapidly becoming cheaper and better than fossil-fueled incumbents. Some already are. The cheapest new electricity generation one can add to the grid now comes from large-scale solar or wind farms. In 1990, renewables were 1% of global power generation. It took 15 years, until 2005, for renewables to double to 2%, but only eight years to double to 4%, and six years to double to 8%.‍
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