Found Energy: Peter Godart

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

Peter Godart, Co-founder and CEO at Found Energy, joins Matt for a coffee and an eye-opening glimpse into the future of sustainable energy. Converting scrap aluminum into a powerful fuel, Peter and his team are turning heads in the energy sector with innovative solutions that are both groundbreaking and green. In this episode, Peter and Matt explore Found Energy’s journey, their clever tech innovations, and how they’re setting new standards in the climate tech arena.

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“My new life mission is to make it so we never have to go to Mars.”

Peter Godart, Founder and CEO at Found Energy

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

💡Activate

💡Autodesk Foundation

💡Bessemer Venture Partners

🔋Found Energy

🔋Mass CEC

💡Munich Re

🛰️NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

🛰️SpaceX

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🪨Aluminum

🪨Aluminum Exfoliation

🏫Berkeley College of Music

📍Boston

⚡Brayton Cycle

⚛ Carbon Dioxide

🌡️Carnot Efficiency

🏭Coal Power Plants

🏛 US Congress

🚀Curiosity Rover

🧑‍💻Doug Hart

💡Einstein Thought Experiment

🪐Enceladus

🪐Europa

⚛Hydrocarbons

⚛Hydrogen

📍Japan

🏫Juilliard

🪐Jupiter

📍Korea

🪐Mars

🏫Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

💫Microgravity

📰National Geographic

☕Nespresso Coffee Capsules

🏫 New England Conservatory

⚛ Oxide Layer

🚀Perseverance Rover

🧑‍💻Peter Godart

☕Philz Coffee

🧑‍💻Ryan Macpherson

🪐Saturn

🔬Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

🤖Self-Cannibalizing Robot Lab

📍Southeast Asia

🥫SPAM

🌡️Thermodynamics

TIMESTAMPS

[0:00:00] Introduction

[0:00:49] A musical background

[0:03:01] Coffee talk

[0:04:12] Professional background

[0:06:16] NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[0:08:31] Robotics on Mars

[0:11:29] Europa project

[0:17:00] Aluminum as an energy source

[0:20:34] From space exploration to climate solutions

[0:22:18] The Birth of Found Energy

[0:24:41] Aluminum as a fuel source

[0:28:02] Aluminum exfoliation

[0:31:04] Potential applications

[0:35:35] Expansion

[0:37:44] Development stage

[0:39:06] Call for collaboration

[0:40:30] Investor support and global strategy

[0:41:21] Outro