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Clean Industrialist | Chief Boilermaker AtmosZero | Advisor to Starlight Ventures & Avila VC
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AtmosZero's @addisonkstark.bsky.social weighs in on Trump's tariffs in @technologyreview.com, arguing that raising costs and rankling our trade partners isn't the way to drive the energy sector forward.

Decided to throw in on the tariff discourse with an energy dominance twist. Was great working with @jtemple.bsky.social and the @technologyreview.com editorial team.

Opinion: Trump should strive to support innovation in the energy industry, and that’ll take more than erecting costly trade barriers.

New in @technologyreview.com : We need smart, targeted tariffs—not blunt trade wars—to win the race for energy dominance. Let’s put America’s workforce to work building batteries and heat pumps, not toasters. My latest: www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1... #cleantech #manufacturing #tariffs

Real.

Wow. Feels like a big mistake given how effective this team was in maintaining momentum during the first Trump admin that resulted in Energy Act 2020 among other great wins from 2016-2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Investor focus is on heavy industry due to the challenge that it poses in the coming decades, but light industry where the rubber is meeting the road. Happy that our focus on light industry is being recognized by BloombergNEF. To (light) industry! 🍻 about.bnef.com/blog/2025-bn...

Between steel tariffs, Canadian import tariffs and OPEC pushing down global prices, it’s been a tough week for American Energy Dominance.

Most heat pumps that produce steam need a source of heat at 30°C. The AtmosZero uses ambient air, potentially down to -20°C. This demonstrates it works at -13°C #decarbonization

On a cold Colorado morning the AtmosZero team turned on Boiler 2.0 and happened to do something that has never been done before. All in a day's work. #EnergySky

Now we're cookin'. Thrilled to see my former ARPA-E colleague and friend, Conner Prochaska, tapped to lead the agency.

I mean this is fine. “Resilience” speaks more to action than the passive “change”.

Ramen lunch

Jimmy Carter was S-tier

Torn between being excited to see thermodynamics in the lede and going off on a rant of “well technically thermodynamics is only useful to describe equilibrium systems, of which a cast iron over heat decidedly is not…”

A Colorado Christmas

From our factory to yours, Happy Holidays and an Electrified New Year!

He’s m’boy alright.

AtmosZero after dark

Quite the dust-up online about planning for 10% natural gas back-up to enable low cost off-grid solar data centers. Just wait until the purists hear about how much NG and other fossil inputs will remain in a post-net-zero industrial sector… Great and thoughtful report.

The thing missing in the USPS discourse right now is the simple fact that writing a letter is an S-tier move in courting a love interest.

RIP Jim Leach. Iowa state wrestling champion. Played football at Princeton back when a QB was optional. Avid collector of the DC color school. And the kind of person you can only hope your child grows up to be. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

RIP Jim Leach. Iowa state wrestling champion. Played football at Princeton back when a QB was optional. Avid collector of the DC color school. And the kind of person you can only hope your child grows up to be. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

This is a good list tho

The best thing about Home Alone 2 is that it’s Home Alone with the zany turned to the max.

At Rocky Mountain National Park

Climatetech founders RN

Climatetech founders RN

When a company has 8 employees on LinkedIn and 4 of them are VCs with the role “investor” ☠️

Do you even air-source, bro? Waste heat not required.

This does beg the question of the efficiency of “X on bicycle”…

Today was a big day for the Energy Twitter diaspora establishing itself on this app.