Built for Earth
by Samuel Beskind
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Decarbonizing Ammonia | Karen Baert - Co-Founder and CEO of Ammobia
Decarbonizing Ammonia | Karen Baert - Co-Founder and CEO of Ammobia
About this podcast
Saving our planet is the most important business out there. The good news is we have the knowledge, technology, and power to do it. On this podcast, hear first hand from entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators who are taking on that challenge by founding companies that are Built For Earth. In particular, the show will highlight founders who are building hardtech solutions that enable meaningful greenhouse gas reduction.
Episodes
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- Decarbonizing Ammonia | Karen Baert - Co-Founder and CEO of Ammobia · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 3Ammobia is enabling low cost clean ammonia production through their Haber-Bosch 2.0 technology - a low-capex, flexible ammonia production process. Karen Baert founded Ammobia in…
- Next-Generation Transmission | Jason Huang - CEO of TS Conductor · 41 min · Season 4 Episode 2TS Conductor is tackling one of the biggest challenges associated with the energy transition: modernizing the grid. TS has developed a novel high-performance conductor that can…
- Clean Ammonia Nanocatalysts | Lewis Jenkins - Co-Founder & CEO of Nium · 47 min · Season 4 Episode 1Nium is using novel nanotechnology to decarbonize and decentralize the most polluting chemical industrial process on the planet: ammonia production. Lewis Jenkins is co-founder…
- Tackling Climate Change and Setting World Records | Erin Sprague - CEO of Protect Our Winters · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 11Protect Our Winters (POW) is one of the world's largest communities of outdoor enthusiasts including professional athletes, scientists, and creatives, who all leverage their love…
- Battery-Equipped Appliances | Sam Calisch - Co-Founder and CEO of Copper · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 10Copper is developing battery-equipped appliances, where a battery and an appliance are coupled into one. Copper just released, Charlie, the world's first energy storage equipped…
- Super Sexy Heat Pumps | Paul Lambert - Co-Founder and CEO of Quilt · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 9Quilt is building a smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more beautiful heat pump system to drastically reduce emissions coming from the home. Paul Lambert is co-founder and…
- Building an Aluminum-Powered Future | Peter Godart - Co-Founder & CEO of Found Energy · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 8Found Energy is decarbonizing heavy industry by extracting clean energy from aluminum metal. Found's aluminum-thermal power systems are compact and modular, allowing energy to be…
- Autonomous Solar-Powered Agricultural Robots | Kenny Lee - Co-Founder & CEO of Aigen · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 7Aigen is aiming to revolutionize agriculture with a pesticide-free, solar-powered robotics platform. Kenny alongside his co-founder, Richard Wurden, launched Aigen in late 2021…
- Farms to Food Banks | Ben Collier - Co-Founder & CEO of Farmlink · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 6The Farmlink Project rescues surplus produce from farms and delivers it to communities around the country. Alongside other college students around the country, Ben Collier…
- Putting Oil Back Underground | Harris Cohn - Head of Sales at Charm Industrial · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 5Charm Industrial is a leading carbon removal company that is leveraging earth’s natural carbon capture process to put gigatons of sequestered carbon back underground. Harris…
- High-Performance Materials for a Low-Carbon World | Bryan Hassin - CEO of DexMat · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 4DexMat is a climate tech moonshot company creating high-performance materials for a low-carbon world. Its flagship product, Galvorn, is carbon-negative at scale, 10x stronger…
- Catalyzing World-Positive Innovation | Swati Mylavarapu - Founder and Managing Partner of Incite.org · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 3Swati Mylavarapu is founder and managing partner of Incite.org where she invests catalytic capital and provides guidance to start-ups and non-profits developing world-positive…
- Roadmaps for Real Climate Progress | Kate Gordon - Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 2Kate Gordon most recently served as Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, where she led initiatives to help drive a more sustainable and inclusive…
- Reducing Food Waste and Building Great Companies | Matt Rogers - Co-Founder & CEO of Mill · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 1Matt Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of Mill, a new way to keep food waste in the food system. Reducing food waste from households presents one of the greatest opportunities for…
- Enabling Climate-Friendly EV Batteries | Virginia Irwin Klausmeier - President & CEO of Sylvatex · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 10Sylvatex is an advanced materials technology company that is innovating the active materials and processes for lithium-ion battery cathode production that drastically reduce the…
- Modular Fusion Power Reactors | Brian Riordan - Co-founder & COO of Avalanche Energy · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 9Avalanche Energy is developing modular fusion micro-reactors to create scaleable carbon-free power. Brian Riordan is co-founder and COO of Avalanche. Before launching Avalanche…
- Enabling Carbon-Negative Lithium | Steven Vassiloudis & Christiaan Jordaan - Co-founders of Novalith · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 7Novalith is creating carbon-negative lithium by using carbon dioxide to unlock the mineral from hard rock while sequestering the harmful greenhouse gas. Steven Vassiloudis, CEO…
- Using the Earth to Heat and Cool Buildings | Joselyn Lai - Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 7Bedrock is transforming the heating and cooling of buildings, using geothermal energy to radically reduce costs for people and the environment. Joselyn Lai is an experienced…
- Electric Vehicle Charging with Superpowers | Anurag Kamal - CEO of ElectricFish · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 6ElectricFish is building distributed energy storage powered by software to accelerate energy equity through extreme-fast electric vehicle charging and backup. Anurag Kamal is a…
- Bringing Renewable Energy to the Moon (Literally) | Ken Liang - Co-Founder of Orbital Mining · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 5Orbital Mining is bringing renewable energy to the moon in hopes to power lunar mining operations that would enable deep space exploration. Orbital Mining launched just over a…
