Avalanche Energy: Robin Langtry

☕ Climate Tech Coffee: Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Coffee — the shorter, usually sober version of Climate Tech Cocktails.

🍾 This episode is to mark the announcement of FUSIONWERX, the first-of-it’s kind commercial-scale testing facility for advanced fusion technologies.

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Join us as we sit down with Robin Langtry, CEO and Co-founder of Avalanche Energy, a fusion startup building micro-sized fusion reactors. We dive into how their “orbital fusion” technology works, why smaller might be better, and how this team of fusion rebels plans to electrify the future — one table-sized reactor at a time.

Grab your favorite form of caffeine, and hop on board.

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📝 Show Notes Below 👇

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🎧 New podcast episode:

“I just didn’t want to build software anymore — I wanted to build something that could change the physics of the planet.”
— Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy

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🚀 Companies / Startups Mentioned

• ⚛️ Avalanche Energy

• 🛰️ DARPA

• 🚀 Anduril

• ⚡ Zap Energy

• 🔋 Helion

• ⚡ Oklo

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🌎 People / Places / Things Mentioned

• 📍 Seattle

• 📍 Los Alamos

• 📍 Montana

• 📍 DOE (Department of Energy)

• 📍 Air Force

• 📍 Austin

• 🔬 Ion guns

• 🔋 High-voltage capacitors

• 🎮 Sci-fi inspired design

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

[00:00] Intro
[01:23] Meet Robin
[03:48] From Montana to Micronuclear
[07:15] Fusion in a Truck?!
[12:45] Avalanche's Breakthrough
[17:30] Competing with Big Fusion
[22:00] National Security + Energy
[28:49] The Road Ahead
[33:58] Outro