HACKER Q&A
📣 vikoonishmoog

Best companies working on climate in 2020?


Best here is likely defined as "has a sensible expected value of actually affecting the problem", so includes things useful today like credit marketplaces as well as exploratory like frontier carbon capture.


  👤 jwitchel Accepted Answer ✓
Here are a bunch of promising software companies worth joining, competing with, partnering with:

https://www.aurorasolar.com/ https://utilityapi.com/ https://www.folsomlabs.com/ https://www.sighten.io/ https://www.energytoolbase.com/ https://home.alsoenergy.com/

Climate change is (often/best seen as) an economic problem. Companies that cut the cost of renewable energy are the ones that matter. Soft cost reduction (as opposed to silicon wafers, transformers, etc.) is the best place for software to make a difference.


👤 illyism
We at XR global are always looking for developers to work on internal / external tools. But besides dev-work there are many other ways to contribute, be it copywriting, marketing, design work, ... Globally or in your local group.

https://rebellion.global


👤 idoh
How about this:

- Change the way we commute: Tesla

- Change the way we work: Zoom and other remote work enablers

- Change the way we eat: Beyond / Impossibe and other meat substitutes


👤 palazzi
Climate Change AI's paper (https://www.climatechange.ai/paper) lists some key areas in which AI can mitigate climate change. An area of critical importance is time series forecasting. Google's AI fund has backed one company in this space: https://www.myst.ai/

👤 gabrielsroka
PBS Nova covered some of them here.

https://youtu.be/PeYJTluQ5tM


👤 biologyisgreat
Come work with us at Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative

The expected value of your individual is high because we need more engineering expertise

https://www.ted.com/talks/joanne_chory_how_supercharged_plan...


👤 giantg2
I don't see any company actually affecting the problem meaningfully in the short term. There are plenty of renewable, cooling, carbon capture companies out there that may be investigating future tech, but not at the scale that will make a real impact.

👤 pknerd
I am a developer. If any One needs help then just contact me via my profile. I am into Python, data and a few other things. Happy to work on challenging tasks.

👤 pcdoodle
TESLA