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Weekly conversations with people powering the world and keeping it running, to learn what comes next. Hosted by Cody Simms. Produced by Override Ventures.
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- The Future of the Grid: Ben Eidelson Live at Climate Week NYC · 29 minIn this live episode of Inevitable from Climate Week NYC, Cody Simms explores the history and future of the electric grid with Ben Eidelson of Stepchange. Eidelson traces the…
- From Twilio to Fusion with Jeff Lawson · 31 minJeff Lawson is the co-founder and CEO of Inertia, a fusion energy company working to commercialize inertial confinement fusion using advanced lasers and mass-manufactured fusion…
- Uplift: Making Temporary Housing Deployable Anywhere · 45 minCharlie Nitschelm is the co-founder and CEO of Uplift, a company building affordable, rapidly deployable temporary housing. Uplift’s first product is a 90-square-foot, off-grid…
- Michael Thomas: Inside America's Off-Grid Data Center Boom · 58 minMichael Thomas is the founder and CEO of Cleanview, a data and research platform tracking more than 10,000 clean energy projects and thousands of data center projects across the…
- Turning Data Centers Into Grid Assets with ON.energy · 44 minAlan Cooper is co-founder and CEO of ON.energy, a Miami-based company building battery-backed power systems for AI data centers. Its flagship product, AI UPS, sits between the…
- Fourier Is Solving Long-Duration Storage with On-Site Hydrogen · 36 minSiva Yellamraju is the co-founder and CEO of Fourier, a company building modular, on-site hydrogen systems for long-duration energy storage and distributed hydrogen production…
- Willie Phillips, Former FERC Chairman: The Grid Is America's Economic Nervous System · 48 minWillie Phillips is the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and now a partner at Holland & Knight. During his time at FERC, Phillips helped lead…
- Aalo Atomics on Beating the Odds to Reach Criticality · 45 minYasir Arafat is the co-founder and CTO of Aalo Atomics, a company developing factory-manufactured modular nuclear power plants designed for AI data centers. Before founding Aalo…
- How Overstory Cuts Outages and Wildfire Risk for Utilities · 46 minFiona Spruill is CEO of Overstory, a company helping electric utilities reduce power outages and wildfire risk using satellite imagery, aerial data, and AI-powered vegetation…
- Turning Unused Home Power into a Controllable Resource with SPAN · 38 minArch Rao is Founder and CEO of SPAN, the company behind the smart electrical panel that has expanded into utility grid management with SPAN Edge and distributed AI infrastructure…
- Faster, Safer, Cheaper: How TerraFirma Is Rebuilding Construction · 44 minNoah Schochet is the co-founder and CEO of TerraFirma, a construction technology company rethinking how infrastructure gets built. Founded by two former SpaceX engineers…
- Prefabricated Nuclear Power Plants with Blue Energy · 51 minJake Jurewicz is the Co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, a nuclear power plant developer. Blue Energy starts with proven, light water reactors and builds everything around them —…
- Koloma's Bet on Buried Hydrogen for Farmers · 49 minPete Johnson, Co-founder and CEO of Koloma, joins Inevitable to break down geologic hydrogen — naturally occurring hydrogen found deep underground — and why he believes it could…
- How Mainspring Energy Turns Fuel Into Power Without Combustion · 30 minShannon Miller is Co-founder and President of Mainspring Energy, a company developing a new category of power generation technology called the linear generator. Mainspring’s…
- The Electric Motorcycle That's Actually a Utility Company with Zeno · 42 minMichael Spencer is the Founder and CEO of Zeno, an electric mobility company building electric motorcycles, battery-swapping infrastructure, and distributed energy systems across…
- Space Solar: 24/7 Clean Power with Overview Energy · 51 minMarc Berte is the Co-founder and CEO of Overview Energy, a startup developing space-based solar power systems designed to turn existing solar farms into around-the-clock power…
- The Domestic Premium: Can American Manufacturing Compete? · 37 minEdward Shenderovich is the Founder and CEO of Roebling, a software platform that helps industrial companies evaluate, design, and finance manufacturing projects before breaking…
- Collapsing 30 Feet of Power Infrastructure Into Four with DG Matrix · 50 minHaroon Inam is Co-founder and CEO of DG Matrix, a company that makes the world's most compact Power Router, aggregating distributed energy for GenAI datacenters, microgrids…
- Lessons from Peter Carlsson after the Rise and Fall of Northvolt · 37 minPeter Carlsson is Co-founder and former CEO of Northvolt, the European battery manufacturing company that raised more than $13 billion to build a homegrown battery supply chain…
- New Mexico's $72B Bet on Clean Energy · 55 minRob Black is Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Economic Development Department, and Bruce Brown is Head of Strategic Climate Initiatives at the New Mexico State Investment…
- From Cars to Grid: Moment Energy Reinvents Energy Storage with Repurposed Batteries · 52 minEddy Chiang is Co-founder and CEO of Moment Energy, a company building commercial-scale energy storage systems from repurposed electric vehicle batteries. By testing, certifying…
- Why This Winter's Snowpack Collapsed with Joel Gratz of OpenSnow · 47 minJoel Gratz is Founding Meteorologist and CEO of OpenSnow, a weather platform used by hundreds of thousands of skiers, snowboarders, and outdoor enthusiasts to track snow…
- Turning Students into Founders at Stanford Climate Ventures · 1 h 6 minDave McColl is Executive Director of Stanford Climate Ventures (SCV), a program designed to help students build climate companies through rigorous go-to-market strategy and…
- Improving Weather Forecasting with WindBorne · 38 minJohn Dean is Co-Founder and CEO of WindBorne, a company building next-generation weather balloons and an AI-powered forecasting layer to improve global weather prediction…
- Alex Blumberg on Turning Buildings into Grid Assets with DaisyChain Energy · 39 minAlex Blumberg is Co-founder and CEO of DaisyChain Energy, a company building a hardware-enabled software platform that turns commercial buildings into flexible grid assets. Best…
- Inside Rockefeller's Big Bet: The Global Energy Alliance with Ashvin Dayal · 49 minAshvin Dayal is Senior Vice President for Power and Climate at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he oversees the Global Energy Alliance (GEA), a multi-billion-dollar initiative…
- Turning Wasted Renewable Power into AI Compute with Rune · 39 minWilliam Layden is Co-founder and CEO at Rune, a company building modular, behind-the-meter micro data centers that plug directly into solar and wind plants. These units operate…
- Turning AI Data Centers Into Grid Allies with Emerald AI · 38 minVarun Sivaram is Founder and CEO of Emerald AI, a company building software that makes AI data centers power flexible. As AI data centers become one of the fastest-growing…
- Why Climate Jobs Aren't Enough Anymore · 46 minEugene Kirpichov is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Work on Climate, a global community helping professionals take action on climate across industries and disciplines…
- Autonomous Wildfire Suppression with Seneca · 54 minStu Landesberg is Co-founder and CEO of Seneca, a company developing autonomous aerial systems to detect and suppress wildfires before they grow out of control. Designed for…
- Using Drones to Make Rain and Snow with Rainmaker · 51 minAugustus Doricko is Founder and CEO at Rainmaker, a company using cloud seeding, drones, and radar to increase rain and snow as water scarcity and drought intensify across the…
- AI Hits a Power Wall. Starcloud Launches Data Centers Into Orbit · 36 minPhilip Johnston is co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, a company building data centers in space to solve AI's power crisis. Starcloud has already launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU…
- The Missing Piece Holding Back Advanced Nuclear with Standard Nuclear · 43 minKurt Terrani is CEO of Standard Nuclear, a company focused on a part of nuclear energy that gets far less attention than reactor designs but can become the true bottleneck: fuel…
- Modular, High-Quality Homes Built Faster and Cheaper with Cuby · 42 minAleks Gampel is COO and Co-founder at Cuby, a company rethinking how homes are built in the middle of a nationwide housing crisis. The cost of housing has soared while…
- The Breakthrough Fusion Has Been Waiting For with Pacific Fusion · 53 minCarrie von Muench is the COO and Co-Founder of Pacific Fusion, a company building the first pulser-driven inertial fusion system designed for net facility gain. Fusion has long…
- AI-Powered Infrastructure Development with Unlimited Industries · 39 minAlex Modon is CEO and Co-founder of Unlimited Industries, a company transforming infrastructure development through AI-driven automation. Unlimited tackles one of the biggest…
- Using AI to Supercharge Nuclear Operations with Atomic Canyon · 43 minTrey Lauderdale is the CEO and Founder of Atomic Canyon, a company bringing artificial intelligence into the nuclear energy sector. Atomic Canyon recently deployed the first…
- Autonomous Construction Sites and AI-Powered Heavy Equipment with Bedrock Robotics · 50 minBoris Sofman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bedrock Robotics, a company turning existing construction equipment into fully autonomous fleets through same-day hardware upfits. With…
- Crusoe CEO and Co-founder, Chase Lochmiller: Live Special at MCJ Summit · 40 minChase Lochmiller is the CEO and co-founder of Crusoe. If you’re a regular listener, Crusoe isn’t new to the pod. This summer, Cody sat down with Chase’s Co-founder and COO, Cully…
- AI’s Power Gap and Nuclear’s Return with The Nuclear Company · 55 minJuliann Edwards is Chief Development Officer at The Nuclear Company. The United States has 93 operating nuclear reactors providing about 20% of the nation’s electricity. After…
- Turning Seawater into a Carbon Removal Solution with Captura · 42 minSteve Oldham is CEO of Captura. Captura develops Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology that removes CO₂ from seawater, triggering the ocean to draw more CO₂ from the air to…
- De-Extinction as a Platform Business with Colossal Biosciences · 46 minBen Lamm is CEO and Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company. Colossal has raised more than $400 million at a valuation north of $10 billion to…
- Why Circularity Fuels Started with Diamonds to Scale Sustainable Jet Fuel · 54 minDr. Stephen Beaton is Co-founder and CEO of Circularity Fuels, which develops compact reactors that turn waste carbon streams into high-value fuels and chemicals. Rather than…
- Tesla Co-founder, Marc Tarpenning · 56 minMarc Tarpenning is Co-founder of Tesla and a venture partner at Spero Ventures. In 2003, Marc and Martin Eberhard saw two signals: GM killed its beloved EV1, and Californians…
- Inside America’s Biggest Energy and Science Lab with Oak Ridge National Laboratory · 56 minDr. Susan Hubbard is Deputy Director for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the largest of the U.S. Department of Energy’s multi-program science and energy…
- Electrifying Marine Vessels with Arc Boat Company · 54 minMitch Lee, CEO of Arc Boat Company, is bringing the Tesla playbook to boating. Arc’s quiet, software-powered electric boats—like the sold-out Arc Sport—deliver cleaner rides…
- The Rise of American Dynamism with a16z · 50 minKatherine Boyle and Erin Price-Wright are General Partners at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), leading the firm's American Dynamism practice. This episode explores how their team…
- Dr. Michael Mann on Climate Science Under Siege and Why It Matters Now · 48 minDr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as Director of the Penn Center for…
- Are Renewables Enough? Stanford’s Dr. Mark Jacobson Thinks So · 48 minDr. Mark Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere Energy Program at Stanford University, where he’s been one of the most…
- The Solar Recycling Boom is Coming with SOLARCYCLE · 36 minSuvi Sharma is the CEO and Co-Founder at SOLARCYCLE. SOLARCYCLE is an emerging leader in the nascent category of solar panel recycling. The astounding ramp of solar panels…
