When it comes to climate technology, what’s hype and what’s not?
On this week’s Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi puts this question to Eric Toone of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Breakthrough is one of the world’s biggest funders of early stage climate technologies and has poured billions of dollars in more than 120 startups. Toone, a former chemistry professor, is responsible for assessing various startups’ viability — both as science experiments and as businesses.


