Newest Episodes
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139: Battery Breakthrough Giveaway
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss missteps in battery development around a breakthrough formula for vanadium redox flow battery.
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138: Smarter Lithium Mining and Next Gen Batteries
Listen nowMatt talks to Teague Egan, EnergyX’s CEO, about their direct extraction lithium mining pilot project in Bolivia, and what they’re planning for a lithium metal next gen battery.
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137: Homestead – Building a New Net Zero Home
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss planning for energy efficient home-building and more about Matt’s one big regret.
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136: Getting Charged Up – Talking Wireless EV Charging
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss wireless EV charging and extreme reactions to technologies that challenge our life experience.
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135: More Bright Ideas – New Concentrated Solar Tech
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss light focusing solar panels, what sets apart Stanford’s AGILE concentrated solar panels, and what Matt regrets not including in the Undecided video about the tech.
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134: Hold the Salt – Breakthrough Fresh Water Tech
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss desalination breakthroughs that could make a big difference in developing areas and natural disasters.
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133: Sand Batteries and Thermal Energy Storage
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss thermal energy storage and storing heat in sand for days, weeks, or possibly months.
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132: In Hot Water – Phase Change Materials
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss hot water heaters and how phase change materials have moved from use in space into our homes.
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131: Recycling Solar
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss recycling solar panels–what can we learn from past efforts?
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130: It’s a gas, gas, gas – CO2 Batteries
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss CO2 batteries, how fast they might be here, and how much of an impact they may have.