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Climate-Driven Wildfires: Building Faster Fire Response Systems with Andrea Santy
As climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of wildfires, the need for faster, smarter response systems is becoming urgent. Andrea Santy, Executive Program Director of XPRIZE Wildfire,…
Why Solar Deployment Speed Is the Real Climate Bottleneck with Deise Yumi Asami
Utility-scale solar is racing to meet surging power demand, yet installation bottlenecks, including labour shortages, heavier panels, and inconsistent daily output, are slowing progress. Deise Yumi…
30% More Power, 20% Lower Costs: Scott Graybeal on Solar’s Step-Change Moment
Perovskite solar has long promised step-change efficiency, yet manufacturing hurdles kept it in the lab. Scott Graybeal and his team at Caelux are changing that. By adding a thin perovskite “active…
How AI Is Unlocking Geothermal Power at Scale with Joel Edwards
Geothermal energy has long been overlooked, dismissed as a niche despite its ability to deliver constant, carbon-free baseload power. As data centre demand surges and grids strain under…
Commercial Fusion Has Started: How Helion Is Bringing Power to the Grid by 2028
Nuclear fusion is rapidly moving from theory to commercial reality. One kilogram of fusion material generates more clean energy than burning 10 million kilograms of coal. The focus of Anthony…
Why Long-Duration Energy Storage Breaks Batteries – and How Hydrogen Fixes It with Mia Rath
In order to meet demand peaks, utilities often have to fire up dirty power plants, essentially generators that burn extra fuel per unit of electricity. So the electricity from those peaker plants is…
The Geothermal Breakthrough: Heating Homes Smarter, Cheaper, and Cleaner with Dan Yates
Globally, we burn as much fossil fuel heating homes as we do driving cars, yet home heating rarely gets climate attention, even though it drives massive energy use, grid strain, and raises household…
Powering the AI Era Sustainably: Breakthrough Climate Hardware Tech from 8 Innovators
In this special year-end episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett explores how the rapid expansion of technology and data centers to support it is accelerating some of the most…
Circular Sanitation: How Human Waste Could Replace 25% of Global Fertiliser with Taylor Zehren
Recycling human waste rarely makes the sustainability spotlight, yet our current recycling system flushes away 32 billion gallons of fresh water and the nutrients that could replace a quarter of…
The Future of Clean Shipping: How Methanol Fuel Cells Are Decarbonising Maritime Transport
Decarbonizing maritime shipping is critical for a sustainable future, but conventional engines and fuel systems have long been a bottleneck. Anders Korsgaard and his team at Blue World Technologies…
Smart Electrical Panels: Avoiding $25K Upgrades to Enable Home Electrification with Arch Rao
Updating home electrification is key to a sustainable future, but outdated electrical infrastructure has long been a bottleneck. Arch Rao and Span are out to change that.Join Dylan Garrett on this…
Onshore Wave Energy: 90% Availability, Transforming Renewable Power Generation
Wave energy has the potential to provide up to 66% of U.S. electricity needs, but offshore systems have long struggled with cost, durability, and scalability. All that is about to change.In this…
From Solar’s 90% Cost Crash to AI’s Energy Surge: The Economics Driving Climate Tech
Solar panel costs have dropped 90% in the past two decades, transforming clean energy from subsidy-dependent to economically viable on its own. If we care about scaling climate tech, we need to…
93% Lower Impact: The Tech Making Sustainable Fashion Competitive
The fashion industry produces 97 million tons of waste each year, and is responsible for 10% of global emissions and 20% of freshwater pollution. If we care about our planet, we need to take a closer…
Cryo-Compressed Hydrogen: Solving America’s 50 GW Diesel Generator Problem
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett welcomes Ted McKlveen, co-founder and CEO of Verne, to discuss hydrogen’s rising role in clean power generation. They dive into…
The Forgotten 25%: How Project Canary Is Detecting Climate's Methane Impact
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett welcomes William Foiles, CEO of Project Canary, to discuss how advanced sensors and AI software are transforming methane emissions…
Tackling 8% of Global Emissions: Making Iron Sustainable One Atom at a Time with Sandeep Nijhawan
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett sits down with Sandeep Nijhawan, CEO and Co-founder of Electra, to explore how his team is reinventing steel production. Their…
11 Climate Hardware Companies Saving Our Planet in 2025
As we move through 2025, climate hardware is no longer a promise for the future; it’s happening now. In this special episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett revisits 11 trailblazing…
Gigatons of Impact: Why Climate Hardware Needs Catalytic Capital
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett sits down with Johanna Wolfson, Co-founder and General Partner at Azolla Ventures, about the critical role of catalytic capital in…
70% Emissions Cut by Electrifying Trailers: The Green Future of Trucking
In this episode of Hardware to Save a Planet, host Dylan Garrett sits down with Jason Chua, Chief Product Officer at Range Energy, about a breakthrough in sustainable trucking. Discover how Range's…
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