We can repair the climate in one lifetime.
More Energy, Clean Planet is the public scorecard for High-Energy Repair. We track the work in indicators, in companies, and in analysis. A project of Petrichor Labs.
Why this exists
Climate discourse has been stuck on the same message for fifty years: use less, want less, expect less. A generation grew up inside that message. A 2024 survey of sixteen thousand Americans aged sixteen to twenty-five found that 58% are very or extremely worried about climate change, and the worry is changing real decisions about whether to have children, where to live, and whether building a career even matters on a planet they were told is ending.
The framing was wrong. Solar is now the cheapest electricity in human history, and that fact landed while the policy debate was still arguing about carbon taxes. Hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions on nuclear and grid buildout for reasons that have nothing to do with environmental policy. Fracking technology is being repurposed for enhanced geothermal. The repair is underway and it is mostly invisible, because nobody is scoring it in public.
This site scores it. Four pillars, real indicators, the companies executing each pillar, the takes that make sense of the numbers. The thesis is High-Energy Repair. The posture is Engineered Optimism. The horizon is one lifetime.
The Numbers
Hard numbers on the four pillars of the repair. Sources cited. Updated on a cadence.
The Builders
Companies executing each pillar. Filterable by sector, stage, and pillar. Open to submissions.
The Takes
Quarterly notes on what's moving. A thesis that names what it's looking for.
Team
Keri Waters
Founder, engineer, writer.
Founder of Petrichor Labs and author of More Energy, Clean Planet (Forbes Books, 2027). Previously founded Buoy Labs (acquired by Resideo) and served as founding Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Austin. Currently Senior Commercialization Advisor with Capital Factory's DARPA Commercial Accelerator. Writes longform at keriwaters.com. MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.