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Beyond Lithium
by BioZen Batteries
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.
Episodes
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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
🌉 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 batteries? What actions combat stereotypes and cultural barriers to enhance gender representation in the battery…
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32 | Circular-Economy Truths, Purple Batteries, Low-V Backbone, & 45X — with Roger Miksad, President & Executive Director of Battery Council International
🪨 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 the end of World War I? For answers, we turn to Roger Miksad, president and Executive Director of Battery Council...
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31 | FBNA, Macro Shifts in Market/Policy/45X, Season 2 kickoff — with Russ Weed, President of CleanTech Strategies
📈 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? Kicking off Season 2 of Beyond Lithium, returning guest Russ Weed (President, CleanTech Strategies) sits down with Nate...
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30 | Doug Wilson — Sr. Fire Plans Examiner, Scottsdale AZ Fire Department
🚒🧯 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 systems? For answers, we turn to Doug Wilson—Senior Fire Plans Examiner for Scottsdale, AZ Fire Department—in...
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29 | Constantin Eis & Giovanni Damato — CEO & US President, CMBlu Energy
🐳 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 Constantin Eis (CEO, CMBlu Energy AG—the mothership) & Giovanni Damato (President, CMBlu Energy, Inc.—the CA, US...
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28 | Arvin Ganesen — CEO, Fourth Power
🧗♂️ 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 this episode where Arvin Ganesan, CEO of Fourth Power, sits down to discuss the company's groundbreaking thermal battery...
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27 | Ben Kaun — Chief Commercial Officer, Inlyte Energy
🔋 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 more for grid storage? What unique advantages does this decades-old technology bring to the table in today’s market?...
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26 | Dr. Daniel Howard (Redux) — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc.
📊 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 in 2050 (hint: a lot more)? What is the biggest challenge in decarbonizing that increased demand? And what is…
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25 | Mike Berger — Director of Product Engineering, Stryten Energy
🚀 “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 rocket science because really it takes chemistry, electricity, materials, and electrochemistry.” Listen to this…
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24 | Kieran Claffey — Senior Research Engineer, Southern Company
🏭 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 Claffey of Southern Company in discussion with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. To add some weight to Kieran's opinion,...
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23 | Cullen Quine — Postdoctoral Researcher at NREL & Co-founder of Activated Energy
🐝 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 be uniquely compressed into a non-toxic, non-flammable liquid at room temperature? And, how is beekeeping like energy...
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22 | Ben Bollinger — VP of Strategic Initiatives, Malta, Inc.
🌡 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 technology need its own sandbox? For answers, we're joined by Ben Bollinger, a career early-stage tech startup pro, PhD...
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21 | Matt Raiford & Alyssa McQuilling — Sr. Technical Manager & Research and Innovation Manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation
🚗 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 in your car? Why does it have such a bad rap, and why should you in fact be excited about it? To answer these…
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20 | Brendan Serapiglia & Jason Feldmar — Partners, Gates & Cooper LLP
💡 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 affect cleantech?! For answers to these questions and lots more, today's episode features Brendan Serapiglia, PhD and...
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19 | Matt Harper — Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Invinity Energy Systems
♾ 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 Co-founder at Invinity, in discussion with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. Invinity Energy Systems was formed from the...
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18 | Matt Millard — Founder & CEO, CapyBara Energy
🐻 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 the energy storage market with their aqueous supercapacitor technology. How? CapyBara's Founder & CEO Matt Millard…
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17 | Mark Wanamaker — Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Storage
0️⃣ 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 Martin Energy Storage joins BioZen Batteries' CEO Nate Kirchhofer to discuss one possible answer to that question:...
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16 | Leah Kuritzky, PhD — Head of PV Operations, Antora Energy
🔥 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 heat bread), storing energy glowing-hot at >1/4 the temperature of the Sun's surface. Our guest for this episode…
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15 | Mike Marshak — Founder & CEO, Otoro Energy
🍣🐟 "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 Energy's CEO Michael Marshak means by that in conversation with BioZen Batteries CEO Nate Kirchhofer. Then, stick around to...
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14 | Onas Bolton — Founder & CEO, Octet Scientific
⚡ 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, and it's gaining adoption for safe, high-cycle, high-efficiency, high-energy-density grid scale batteries too. For this...
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13 | Mahesh Morjaria — Executive VP of Plant Operational Technology, Terabase Energy
💯 Pop Quiz! Define the following: EPCs, SCADA systems, upregulation, downregulation, frequency regulation, spinning reserves, timeshifting, and dispatchable assets. Didn't get them all right? That's okay! We've brought in Mahesh Morjaria of Terabase Energy to get you up to speed in conversation...
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12 | Ilja Pawel — Expert Consultant, Renewable Energy & Storage Technology
♻️ What does "sustainability" mean to you? How do you put a price on the safety of a battery? If we want society to adopt renewable energy, why is there so much NIMBYism about it? To answer these questions, and more, clean energy expert Ilja Pawel calls in from Austria to join BioZen's CEO Nate...
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11 | Doris Hafenbradl — CTO & Managing Director, Electrochaea
🦠 You've heard of two major domains of life: Bacteria (think E. coli) and Eukaryotes (like yeast, plants, animals, etc). Do you know what the third major domain is? (Hint: it's hidden in the company name, Electrochaea.) Do you know how it stores energy? Tune into this episode where Doris...
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10 | Dr. Tyler Farnsworth & Tom Borak — Head of Technical and Product Development & Head of Commercial Development, MERGE Chemistry
🧪 What are the critical chemicals that need to be scaled for energy storage right now? In 5 years, what battery chemistry is going to be winning in the marketplace? We're changing the pace with two guests to answer these questions: Dr. Tyler Farnsworth and Tom Borak, who join BioZen's CEO Nate...
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9 | Michael Peither — Cofounder & CTO, VoltStorage
🤺 How competitive is the energy storage market? On this episode, Cofounder & CTO of VoltStorage Michael Peither joins, as always, BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer to discuss this, the size of the need (in TWh), and perspectives on battery development cycles. VoltStorage is a leading manufacturer of...
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8 | James Werbe — Founder & CEO, Wayside Energy
💦 Battery immersion cooling! What does that mean? Today's episode brings James Werbe of Wayside Energy for a conversation with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. As Wayside puts it, they're "creating a future to look forward to" starting with their novel thermal control approach for sodium ion…
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7 | Mark Higgins — CCO & President North America, Redflow
💤 Have you ever heard of "hibernation mode" for a battery? For this episode, BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer is joined by Mark Higgins of Redflow (ASX:RFX), a global company founded in Australia in 2005 (IPO 2010) that manufatures Zinc Bromine (Zn-Br) flow batteries. Tune in to learn from Mark just...
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6 | Kristina Jansen — Project Development Manager, RAI Energy
☀️ For this episode, Kristina "Kristy" Jansen joins the show with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. Kristy brings two decades of experiece to cleantech, having been in solar photovoltaic development in the early 2000's, followed by a stint in advocacy on the non-profit side, and recently returning to...
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5 | Tim Montague — President, Clean Power Consulting
🎙️ Cleantech expert and Clean Power Hour podcast guru Tim Montague joins (as always) BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer. The discussion ranges from the broad view of meta-trends in the cleantech space down to some actionable items for cleantech founders. Beyond the obvious "raise more money and grow,"...
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4 | Dr. Daniel Howard — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc.
🧮 If US ratepayers spend an extra $25B/year towards buildout of 90% renewable generation in 2035, can you guess how many $Billions are saved in human and environmental health costs? (Hint: it's more than 10X the cost.) For this episode, Dr. Daniel Howard, co-founder and CEO of Quantum Energy…
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3 | Russ Weed — President, CleanTech Strategies [2 of 2]
🏭 Russ and Nate continue the discussion, getting Russ' input the ongoing challenges in energy storage technology and deployment, the maturity of different scales and durations of energy storage technologies, and insights into the opportunities and surprises in bringing energy storage technology…
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2 | Russ Weed — President, CleanTech Strategies [1 of 2]
💵 Wait, how many billions of dollars? Russ—who hails from Seattle and brings a decade of experience in the energy storage industry, including some flow batteries—sits down with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer to discuss the implications of the recent US Inflation Reduction Act (or IRA) on energy...
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1 | Craig Lewis — Executive Director, Clean Coalition
⚡ What's at the end of the transmission line? Craig sits down with BioZen's CEO Nate Kirchhofer to discuss community grid energy storage, and he shares more about the impetus behind his formation of the Clean Coalition, a little bit about how the grid works, why lithium-ion batteries are the…
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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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