[adem]

CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

[dang]

Please don't post shallow indignant comments to HN. They're lame, even if you're right, and they make discussion quality significantly worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[emmett]

Come on...before you post complaints about how someone else is literally giving away millions of dollars to the wrong promising young people, maybe actually read the list of projects?

"Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments." He's literally funding clean energy.

And even if this year's list didn't have that in the list, let's celebrate someone doing good instead of lobbing stones from the sidelines about how they didn't do it the exact way we would have.

[api]

If there were things on there about climate or carbon capture people would find something else to hate about it. It's not enough. It won't work. And so on...

[ErikVandeWater]

That's extremely glass half-empty of you. There's a surprising number of companies in this list that are about sustainable production. And Zeno Power is developing clean (nuclear) energy.

[strulovich]

The first person is working electric aviation (but their website mentions military uses alongside the usual medical aid ones - point for honesty?)

Another one is about small scale nuclear reactors.

So it this just about the term? It the people?

It’s not very environmental directed, but not everything has to be.

[finite_jest]

> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.

Also, not everyone has to frame and align every single one of their actions in accordance with the "progressive" view.

[JohnTHaller]

Only certain folks think of the climate as a '"progressive" view'

[cma]

I see electric planes and telemedicine, which are both climate related.

And an even bigger one:

> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments.

[bcwarner]

The last company mentioned does mentions clean energy, but yeah, there is a lot of blockchain here.

[Victerius]

Vitalik Buterin was on Forbes' 30 under 30 a few years ago. These rankings and fellowships mean nothing.

[hhs]

Please note that you are conflating two different things.

This piece is on the fellowship, and the article says: “To date, companies created by Thiel Fellows are together valued at more than $46.8 billion, excluding Ethereum which is valued at $450 billion.”