48 conversations with the founders, investors, and scientists building the energy transition. Newest first.
43:22 Jun 17, 2026
Sergio Carvalho explains how Europe's green hydrogen mandate created a market from scratch, and why that model separates investable clima...
39:10 Jun 5, 2026
Sachin Nair says every oil well produces four to five times more water than oil, and Hydron is building the technology to treat it withou...
45:10 Jun 2, 2026
Thomas Nann built Allegro Energy's flow battery platform from a microemulsion electrolyte discovery, then had to abandon their first prod...
28:39 May 21, 2026
Alon Mashkovich built enSights after watching billion-dollar renewable portfolios still run on Excel and CSVs in 2018.
50:00 May 18, 2026
Eben Meyer shows why up to 62% of B2B ad spend reaches audiences who can never buy your product.
54:40 May 11, 2026
Alex Shoer explains why the commercial and industrial battery storage market is structurally broken and what GridVest is doing to fix it.
43:44 May 4, 2026
Michael Fakukakis built a gearless solar tracker that produces 60% more power than fixed panels, and the hardest part was never the physics.
41:18 Apr 28, 2026
Eben Meyer shows how an EPA enforcement notice beats a hiring signal every time for cleantech sales teams.
37:31 Apr 27, 2026
Martin Gross turned a lost oil-industry job in 2016 into GWT, which now uses algae to replace chemicals and bacteria in wastewater treatm...
35:53 Apr 14, 2026
Eben Meyer argues CAC is structurally higher in cleantech than any other B2B category, and explains exactly why.
44:05 Apr 6, 2026
Emily Grubert argues the energy transition is not actually happening because no one has committed to making it happen.
35:55 Mar 30, 2026
Paige Perillat-Piratoine built community across army bases, COVID hackathons, and a hygroscopic electricity startup before landing at Nat...
36:44 Mar 10, 2026
Arian Edalat's electrically conductive membranes can self-adjust in real time, targeting a market expansion from $3 billion to $300 billion.
41:48 Mar 10, 2026
Greg Newbloom built Membrion's ceramic desalination membrane by walking away from two failed startups first.
39:03 Mar 10, 2026
Dr. Jacqueline Kerr argues that science alone never moves policy makers, but their own constituents reliably do.
46:50 Mar 10, 2026
Gaurav and Anat Tewari claim their Zero Ox Tech gives retail-ready meat cuts a 120-day shelf life, eliminating a $3 billion annual indust...
51:41 Mar 3, 2026
Steve Kloos maps a $1.6 trillion water sector and explains why flood forecasting startup Provisico is crushing it.
38:41 Mar 2, 2026
Daniel Russek built Atarraya over 17 years to prove shrimp farming can close its nitrogen loop without poisoning the ocean.
59:21 Feb 23, 2026
Sunena Gupta explains why raw satellite data is becoming worthless without the analytics layer built on top of it.
1:05:37 Feb 23, 2026
Zainab Gilani's two-bucket framework for energy and power makes data center demand and China's battery leadership suddenly legible.
50:44 Feb 23, 2026
Serena Dao spent years at pre-seed to Series C climate hardware startups before the Engine, and argues carbon capture only survives if it...
55:49 Feb 19, 2026
Diana Rasner explains why China's dominance in mineral refining took 50 years to build and why ore grades are now the mining industry's s...
43:01 Feb 19, 2026
Nathan Silvernail left SpaceX in 2021 to invent a carbon-negative wood substitute that grows from biomass, not trees.
44:33 Feb 19, 2026
Eric Fischgrund built FischTank PR to 26 employees over 12 years by treating media relations as a craft, not a mail-merge automation.
36:09 Feb 19, 2026
Aukrit Unahalekhaka built a million-farmer AgTech platform in Thailand, then walked away to bet on biochar.
1:08:01 Feb 9, 2026
Anthony DeOrsey explains why China's EV market grew from dozens to hundreds of companies before most collapsed, and what the US misreads...
56:10 Feb 9, 2026
Majid Hajibeigy explains why every solo kelp farmer burns out and why aggregation is the only path to a real industry.
44:26 Feb 4, 2026
Vik Chaudhry beat GE and ABB in a 2021 New York Power Authority RFP by spending three years building AI models before talking revenue.
51:03 Jan 20, 2026
John Robinson, after 17 years in water and wastewater, argues the industry's biggest obstacle is that everyone already thinks they unders...
1:15:48 Jan 19, 2026
Yangbo Du traces how 48 U.S. utilities bankrupted themselves chasing bespoke reactor designs, and why that still shapes nuclear's odds to...
45:56 Jan 14, 2026
Emily Moini explains why transmission planning, one of NERC's 14 reliability categories, is the silent bottleneck for every new solar and...
1:16:00 Dec 22, 2025
Hampus Jakobsson of Pale Blue Dot argues the planet's inefficient 'operating system' is the largest investable opportunity humanity has e...
42:28 Dec 15, 2025
Russell Schindler turned a Michigan regulatory change in 2001 into a software company by listening to customers who wanted the tool, not...
35:58 Dec 15, 2025
Nili Persits shrunk a $100,000 refrigerator-sized Raman spectroscopy sensor to cell-phone scale to put real-time water monitoring within...
34:40 Dec 9, 2025
Louie Woodall argues climate adaptation is the unavoidable reality most climate media is still choosing not to look at directly.
52:15 Dec 8, 2025
Rod Adams founded a small modular reactor company in 1993, decades before the term 'SMR' entered mainstream climate discourse.
46:58 Dec 8, 2025
Dr. Liz Whitney's PhD compared carbon movement across forest, agricultural, and urban coastal sites in the mid-Atlantic, where sea level...
33:22 Dec 8, 2025
Freya Burton turned steel mill pollution into ethanol, proving a 'biologically impossible' process commercial by 2018.
40:49 Dec 4, 2025
Ben Silton built TrelliSense's laser-based methane tracking by treating every sales call and forklift shift as founder training.
39:52 Dec 4, 2025
Sophia Xu's Carbon Bridge makes microbes 500% more productive by solving a physics problem, not a biology one.
46:50 Nov 25, 2025
Celine King founded GreenIRR at 20 and argues the startup narrative hides the emotional cost that actually determines who survives.
45:01 Nov 25, 2025
Jimmy Chiu turned a $1.9M DOE grant into Loop CO2's first 20-liter CO2-to-polyester reactor, scaling chemistry that sat dormant for 40 ye...
48:37 Nov 20, 2025
Rob Avis built 5th World after teaching 10,000 people permaculture, arguing beavers increase biodiversity 28x and humans can too.
38:34 Nov 20, 2025
Ben Soltoff's MIT book on climate entrepreneurship argues startups are one route to impact, not the only one.
36:20 Nov 20, 2025
Austin Riesenberger built SWERV's first five ERV units for $2,000 total, then turned down a Hawaii relocation to keep the company.
32:14 Nov 20, 2025
Mo Balapour turned a Drexel PhD project on coal ash into SusMaX, a company recycling landfill waste into construction aggregate.
34:56 Nov 19, 2025
Agabas Agudor built AppCyclers from a 2019 hackathon with no e-waste knowledge into a nine-person AI marketplace connecting Ghana's infor...
36:17 Nov 19, 2025
Quantum Wei built Harmony Desalting's first prototype over a year of trial and error, then validated it at a 2019 conference in New Orleans.