Beyond Lithium
by BioZen Batteries
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33 | Battery Humanity: Ecosystem Gaps, Stereotypes, AI/ML, and…
33 | Battery Humanity: Ecosystem Gaps, Stereotypes, AI/ML, and…
About this podcast
The success of renewable and green energy (like wind and solar) requires a diversity of energy storage options — beyond lithium-ion batteries. What will those alternatives look like? Each episode, we bring you a new perspective from a leading authority in batteries and energy storage focused on expanding the electrical grid with up-and-coming technology.
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- 33 | Battery Humanity: Ecosystem Gaps, Stereotypes, AI/ML, and Collaborative Scale-Up — with Dr. Sama Aghniaey, founder and president of The Battery Saloon and fractional CCO of Ion Gates Consulting · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 3🌉 What are the biggest fatal mistakes battery startups make? How do we close battery ecosystem gaps and collaborate domestically to compete with China? How is AI being used in…
- 32 | Circular-Economy Truths, Purple Batteries, Low-V Backbone, & 45X — with Roger Miksad, President & Executive Director of Battery Council International · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 2🪨 What product is the cornerstone of the US economy, enabling workers to commute every single day? What is the real trick to a truly circular economy? And how is this all tied to…
- 31 | FBNA, Macro Shifts in Market/Policy/45X, Season 2 kickoff — with Russ Weed, President of CleanTech Strategies · 16 min · Season 2 Episode 1📈 Are Flow Batteries poised to break out in North America? How do AI and data centers compare to electric utilities in their priorities? What is FBNA and how can I attend?…
- 30 | Doug Wilson — Sr. Fire Plans Examiner, Scottsdale AZ Fire Department · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 30🚒🧯 What’s the best strategy to prevent future battery fires? What type of energy storage system (ESS) does the fire department think is best? How do we build safe energy storage…
- 29 | Constantin Eis & Giovanni Damato — CEO & US President, CMBlu Energy · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 29🐳 Why doesn’t Nature store energy using metal? And what does it use? And how many kWh of energy per liter is stored in a Blue Whale?! For answers, we turn to the dynamic duo of…
- 28 | Arvin Ganesen — CEO, Fourth Power · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 28🧗♂️ What is Fourth Power’s Guinness World record? Can we make renewables just as dispatchable as fossil fuels? And how is a battery like a carabiner?! For answers, tune into…
- 27 | Ben Kaun — Chief Commercial Officer, Inlyte Energy · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 27🔋 What’s a 50 year old battery technology, made from abundant elements, with no risk of thermal runaway and no cycling degradation? Why was it originally targeted for EVs but now…
- 26 | Dr. Daniel Howard (Redux) — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc. · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 26📊 What is impact, and how is it quantified? Why are 87% of clean energy projects severely delayed or failing? If current electricity consumption is 4000 TWh/year, what will it be…
- 25 | Mike Berger — Director of Product Engineering, Stryten Energy · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 25🚀 “It’s not rocket science,” someone once told Mike Berger, Stryten Energy’s Director of Product Engineering. "Yes," he agreed. “It’s probably even a little more complicated than…
- 24 | Kieran Claffey — Senior Research Engineer, Southern Company · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 24🏭 For the electric utilities, what is the most important metric for energy storage technology? What is the rule of 17%? What is dunkelflaute?! For answers, we turn to Kieran…
- 23 | Cullen Quine — Postdoctoral Researcher at NREL & Co-founder of Activated Energy · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 23🐝 What is >100X more energy dense (33 kWh/kg) than Li-ion batteries (0.3kW/kg), and why is it so hard to store it at room temperature? What is a naturally-occurring gas that can…
- 22 | Ben Bollinger — VP of Strategic Initiatives, Malta, Inc. · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 22🌡 What's the difference between a heat pump and a heat engine? What is synchronous inertia? What are the four horses pulling the chariot of a startup company? Why does a…
- 21 | Matt Raiford & Alyssa McQuilling — Sr. Technical Manager & Research and Innovation Manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 21🚗 What is the most recycled product in the world, with 99.7% being collected into the recycling stream? Where does it get used beyond the starter / lighting / ignition functions…
- 20 | Brendan Serapiglia & Jason Feldmar — Partners, Gates & Cooper LLP · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 20💡 Can you trademark a sound? Why can you only patent "non-obvious" inventions? Who decides what is non-obvious? What is Enablement and how does the Supreme Court's ruling on it…
- 19 | Matt Harper — Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Invinity Energy Systems · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 19♾ That's right: Invinity, with a V for vanadium. How many square meters does it take to set up 1 MWh of vanadium flow batteries? For the answer, we turn to Matt Harper, CCO and…
- 18 | Matt Millard — Founder & CEO, CapyBara Energy · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 18🐻 The capybara is nature's ultimate collaborator, existing peacefully in diverse global ecosystems. That harmonious disposition is exactly what CapyBara Energy seeks to bring to…
- 17 | Mark Wanamaker — Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Storage · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 170️⃣ What's your favorite zero-emission load following dispatchable resource to enable green baseload? What even *is* green baseload?! For this episode, Mark Wanamaker of Lockheed…
- 16 | Leah Kuritzky, PhD — Head of PV Operations, Antora Energy · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 16🔥 Is it just a glorified toaster? Not quite: At more than 1500 °C (2700 °F), the carbon blocks inside Antora's unique thermal batteries are resistively heated (like toaster coils…
- 15 | Mike Marshak — Founder & CEO, Otoro Energy · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 15🍣🐟 "Operating the electric grid without energy storage is sort of like operating a sushi restaurant without a refrigerator." Tune into this episode to find out what Otoro…
- 14 | Onas Bolton — Founder & CEO, Octet Scientific · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 14⚡ Which metal was used as far back as 1799 when Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the original battery? Hint: It's still in use today in single-use alkaline batteries…
