Beyond Lithium

Beyond Lithium

BioZen Batteries

Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 26m
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Since Jul 2022
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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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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S2E2 32 | Circular-Economy Truths, Purple Batteries, Low-V Backbone, & 45X — with Roger Miksad, President & Executive Director of Battery Council International

Dec 05, 2025 38m

🪨 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…

S2E1 31 | FBNA, Macro Shifts in Market/Policy/45X, Season 2 kickoff — with Russ Weed, President of CleanTech Strategies

Oct 13, 2025 15m

📈 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…

S1E30 30 | Doug Wilson — Sr. Fire Plans Examiner, Scottsdale AZ Fire Department

Apr 17, 2025 19m

🚒🧯 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,…

S1E29 29 | Constantin Eis & Giovanni Damato — CEO & US President, CMBlu Energy

Jan 09, 2025 25m

🐳 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,…

S1E28 28 | Arvin Ganesen — CEO, Fourth Power

Oct 07, 2024 24m

🧗‍♂️ 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…

S1E27 27 | Ben Kaun — Chief Commercial Officer, Inlyte Energy

Aug 09, 2024 40m

🔋 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…

S1E26 26 | Dr. Daniel Howard (Redux) — CEO, Quantum Energy, Inc.

Jun 28, 2024 18m

📊 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…

S1E25 25 | Mike Berger — Director of Product Engineering, Stryten Energy

Apr 21, 2024 25m

🚀 “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…

S1E24 24 | Kieran Claffey — Senior Research Engineer, Southern Company

Mar 27, 2024 30m

🏭 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…

S1E23 23 | Cullen Quine — Postdoctoral Researcher at NREL & Co-founder of Activated Energy

Mar 05, 2024 21m

🐝 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…

S1E22 22 | Ben Bollinger — VP of Strategic Initiatives, Malta, Inc.

Feb 09, 2024 34m

🌡 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…

S1E21 21 | Matt Raiford & Alyssa McQuilling — Sr. Technical Manager & Research and Innovation Manager, Consortium for Battery Innovation

Jan 17, 2024 31m

🚗 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…

S1E20 20 | Brendan Serapiglia & Jason Feldmar — Partners, Gates & Cooper LLP

Jan 05, 2024 35m

💡 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…

S1E19 19 | Matt Harper — Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Invinity Energy Systems

Dec 14, 2023 29m

♾ 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…

S1E18 18 | Matt Millard — Founder & CEO, CapyBara Energy

Dec 01, 2023 21m

🐻 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…

S1E17 17 | Mark Wanamaker — Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Storage

Nov 30, 2023 13m

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…

S1E16 16 | Leah Kuritzky, PhD — Head of PV Operations, Antora Energy

Nov 02, 2023 18m

🔥 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…

S1E15 15 | Mike Marshak — Founder & CEO, Otoro Energy

Oct 20, 2023 33m

🍣🐟 "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…

S1E14 14 | Onas Bolton — Founder & CEO, Octet Scientific

Sep 14, 2023 27m

⚡ 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…

S1E13 13 | Mahesh Morjaria — Executive VP of Plant Operational Technology, Terabase Energy

Aug 23, 2023 28m

💯 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…

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