Ep.26 Harvey Hodd, RIVAN

“The biggest problem of our time is carbon dioxide. To remove it you need to create a product more valuable than the carbon itself.”On this week’s episode of Profit Meets Purpose, I’m joined by Harvey Hodd, serial entrepreneur and founder of RIVAN, a company that’s reimagining the future of fuels. Instead of drilling the earth, RIVAN is “mining the sky,” building synthetic fuels from captured carbon and renewable energy with the ambition of producing the cheapest synthetic fuels in the world.Harvey shares how his team is taking a fully vertically integrated approach, designing and building everything from carbon capture systems and hydrogen units to chemical reactors and even their own solar supply, to cut costs, scale faster, and make synthetic fuels affordable.We also dive into:Why drop-in fuels that are chemically identical to fossil fuels could decarbonise industries overnightThe challenge of making synthetic fuels cost-competitive at scaleHow RIVAN’s pilot plant in Wiltshire is already producing tens of thousands of litres of hydrogen dailyWhat it will take to shift the global energy market and incentivise oil and gas to changeWebsite: www.sustainabletimes.co.ukRIVAN Website: https://rivan.com/Contact: [email protected]