What climate tech is overhyped and what's not

Zero: The Climate Race

Bloomberg

Technology, Business, Science

4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There's always big ideas in the climate technology space, but it can be hard to get your head around all the different types of technologies making waves. What’s real and what’s low-carbon smoke and mirrors? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi teams up with venture capitalist and Catalyst podcast host Shayle Kann to talk about which climate technologies are working, and which are going nowhere.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:01.8	This is The Michelle Hussein Show.
0:04.2	I'm Michelle Hussein.
0:05.7	I speak with people like Elon Musk.
0:08.2	I think I've done enough.
0:09.2	And Shonda Rhymes.
0:10.1	That's so cute.
0:11.0	This will be a place where every weekend you can count on one essential conversation
0:16.7	to help make sense of the world.
0:19.1	So please join me.
0:20.4	Listen and subscribe to the Mishal Hussein show
0:23.6	from Bloomberg weekend, wherever you get your podcast.
0:27.2	You certainly ask interesting questions.
0:31.0	Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati.
0:33.6	This week, hyped just right.
0:47.6	Thank you. This week, hyped just right. Whatever the mood on climate these days, there's always big ideas in the climate technology space.
0:53.8	But it can be hard to get your head around all the different types of technologies making
0:57.9	waves and to separate what's real and what's low-carbon smoke and mirrors.
1:03.4	So this week, I'm teaming up with Shail Khan to play a game of overhyped, underhyped, or
1:08.9	hype just right.
1:10.8	Shale is a venture capitalist at Energy Impact Partners.
1:13.8	This episode is a collaboration with the Catalyst podcast that Shale hosts, where he interviews
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