Newest Episodes
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145: Put Those Cans To Use – Aluminum Ion Batteries
Listen nowOn today’s episode of Still To Be Determined we’re turning our beer cans into batteries … well … we’re talking about aluminum ion batteries and how they might be the successor to the lithium ion battery.
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144: Gone Fusion – Exciting Fusion Energy Startups
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss start-ups’ fusion energy plans, their timetable, and their potential. We also talk to Helion Energy’s CEO, David Kirtley about their technology.
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143: Unity Homes – Matt’s Factory Built Net Zero Home
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss Unity Homes’ approach to sustainable homebuilding (including Matt’s home!).
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142: Passive (House) Aggressively – Net Zero at Scale
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss large-scale passive buildings and the different technologies available today to make it happen. Everything from regenerative braking on elevators, to solar panels plus battery energy storage, to ERVs and air tight construction.
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141: More Small Ideas – Nanotechnology at Work
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss nanotechnology advancements driving battery breakthroughs from companies like EnergyX. Their metal organic frameworks are revolutionizing lithium mining, and potentially lithium batteries as well.
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140: Baby Got Mach – Supersonic Net Zero Airplanes
Listen nowMatt and Sean discuss supersonic air travel and Matt’s real feelings about biofuels and Boom’s prospects.
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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.