Best Flow Control Technology Podcasts (2025)

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The $2.2 Trillion Year: Clean Power Keeps Compounding 45:06

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In 2025, the U.S. president called climate change a hoax. Meanwhile, global clean energy investment hit a record $2.2 trillion. Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter covering climate and energy for Bloomberg. His read on the past year: China is becoming the modern Standard Oil. The same way Rockefeller's empire exported petroleum infrastructure globall…

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The Grid's Next Move: Nuclear Daydreams vs. Distributed Energy Reality 55:06

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In this end-of-year conversation, David Roberts, a renowned climate and clean energy journalist, lays out his headline for 2025: the rapid growth of AI data centers has forced long-delayed decisions about the power system. After two decades of mostly flat U.S. electricity demand, utilities are now facing sharp new load growth, tighter timelines, an…

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Remote-Control High-Rises: HVAC That Pays You Back 40:41

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Real estate companies say they want sustainability. They'll pay for it too, provided it comes with zero risk. Brad Pilgrim is co-founder & CEO of Parity, a remote HVAC optimization service for high-rises and hotels. Its customer team can walk into a building, spend 90 minutes going from the basement to roof, and tell the owner how much energy they …

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EV Impossible: Voltera Delivers Charging Sites Electric Fleets Count On 42:26

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EVs for commercial fleets are increasingly attractive. Battery costs are down, range is up, and in many cases the total cost of ownership already beats gas. The problem isn’t the vehicles. It’s where they’ll charge. Voltera takes on the part of the EV transition most people never see: procuring the right real estate, securing stadium-scale power ca…

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AI is in the Walls: Schneider Electric Gives Buildings Brains 28:31

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Something big is happening inside buildings. They’re getting brains. Schneider Electric is a global giant in energy and building performance—nearly two centuries old, operating across 100+ countries, and already embedded in a million buildings. Manish Kumar, EVP of Digital Energy, joins me to unpack what it means when AI starts running the places w…

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S01:E24: Quality Control and Digital Transformation with DBR77 34:50

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Is your quality control an active shield or just an autopsy of failed products? If you are only checking quality at the end of the production line, you have already lost money on materials, energy, and time. Traditional quality control is reactive. In the era of Industry 4.0, the goal is not just to filter out defects, but to prevent them from happ…

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Clean Energy Meets Its Match: Crux Accelerates Deal Flow 47:46

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There are trillions of dollars of clean energy projects ready to be built—and trillions more in capital waiting to fund them. But the system connecting the two is too slow, fragmented, and expensive. That gap is what Alfred Johnson set out to close. A former Treasury official who helped steer markets through the 2008 financial crisis and later serv…

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Production Planning – How to Avoid Chaos and Delays? 29:22

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Is your production schedule an immediate source of chaos? For many factories, production planning is the heart of the operation—and it's failing. Manual schedules in spreadsheets, outdated data on machine availability, and a constant reactive firefight are causing machine downtime, team frustration, and customer delays. In this episode of Factory o…

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Beautiful Heat: Quilt Turns Decarbonization Into Desire 42:13

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A few months ago, Quilt became the first company in residential HVAC history to deliver an over-the-air upgrade—making its systems 20% more powerful overnight. Quilt is rethinking how homes heat and cool themselves. Its software-driven, ductless HVAC system combines intelligent controls, high-efficiency heat pumps, and a design language that fits s…

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Trust Scales: Veo Is the Micromobility Partner Cities Love 44:41

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In an industry that moved fast and defied cities, Veo chose a different path: partnership over disruption. Co-founder and CEO Candice Xie is building one of the only profitable micromobility companies in America by leading with discipline, transparency, and respect for the people shaping urban life. While competitors flooded streets and flamed out,…

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S01:E22 Building the Future of Manufacturing with Modern Technologies 35:52

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Modern technologies like IoT, Digital Twin, and AI are no longer "innovations of the future"—they are a necessity for survival today. Companies that want to remain competitive must transform, not just optimize, their operations. While traditional manufacturing is stuck in a reactive loop , modern leaders are building factories that are proactive, a…

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AI, Solar Minigrids, and the Quest to Power Civilization’s Edge 48:04

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Husk Power Systems operates the largest fleet of community-level clean-energy minigrids in the world—over 400 sites across India and Nigeria. Each system combines solar, battery storage, and biomass generation into a modular platform called PRISM, engineered to deploy and power an entire village within 24 hours. Behind the technology is an AI-drive…

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S01E21: Work Organization in Warehouses – How DBR77 Facilitates Order and Flow 32:21

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Delays, picking errors, wasted space, and frustrated employees. These aren't just "warehouse problems"—they are symptoms of logistical chaos that is actively draining your company's efficiency and profits. But how do you fix a system that's in constant motion? Reorganizing a live warehouse based on guesswork is a recipe for more disruption, not les…

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Mining Solar Panels to Build New Ones 51:11

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SolarCycle is building the next supply chain that makes the clean energy transition possible. Co-founder Jesse Simons spent two decades at the Sierra Club leading national campaigns to accelerate renewable energy before seeing the constraint built into solar’s own success. There aren’t enough raw materials to keep scaling, and communities are start…

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S01:E20 - Optimizing Intralogistics: Milk Run and Kanban 39:30

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Is your factory floor plagued by operational chaos, excess inventory, and production delays? The culprit is often inefficient intralogistics. Traditional material handling is a major source of waste, but it's difficult to fix without disrupting operations. In this episode of Factory on Air, we tackle this challenge head-on. We dive into two powerfu…

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The Billion-Dollar Bank Underwriting the Clean Energy Transition 43:53

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Ken LaRoe has done what no one else in U.S. history has: founded three banks. His first two were financial successes. His third—Climate First Bank—is his answer to unfinished business. Built to align money with mission, it’s now America’s fastest-growing new bank, surpassing $1.4 billion in assets while financing the clean energy economy. In this e…

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S01:E19 VSM and Machine Load Analysis 26:28

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Is your Value Stream Map an outdated snapshot of your factory? Traditional VSM and machine load analysis often rely on averages and assumptions, failing to capture the real-time dynamics of your shop floor. This leads to hidden bottlenecks, unbalanced workloads, and inefficient flow that static charts will never reveal. In this episode of Factory o…

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Millions of Urban Trees Are Discarded—Cambium Builds Them a New Supply Chain 50:23

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Cambium is building the operating system for reuse—a digital supply chain connecting the fragmented network of companies needed to turn fallen trees into finished goods. Every year, tens of millions of urban trees come down. The scale is staggering, and most end up chipped, burned, or buried. Cambium links tree-removal crews, haulers, mills, and en…

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S01:E18 Eliminating the 7 Lean Wastes Using Simulation 34:23

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Are the seven wastes of Lean—transport, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, over-processing, and defects—silently draining your profits? Identifying them is one thing, but eliminating them without disrupting your live production floor is a monumental challenge. Traditional trial-and-error improvements are often slow, risky, and based on ass…

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From Google to the Grid: She's Orchestrating the Clean Energy Future 51:59

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AI, electrification, decarbonization—they all hinge on how effectively the grid is orchestrated. Yet thousands of clean energy projects are stuck in U.S. interconnection queues. The backlog is twice the size of all the energy we use today. It’s not a cost problem. It’s the grid—the largest machine on earth—built last century for stability and missi…

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S01E17: Simulation of production scenarios 35:33

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What if you could test every production scenario before it happens? Stop making critical operational decisions based on intuition and start using data to find the optimal way to run your factory. In a dynamic industrial reality, sticking to a single, rigid production plan leads to inefficiency and missed opportunities. In this episode of Factory on…

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Disco, Sunshine, and the Future of Curbside EV Charging - It's Electric 44:24

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Curbside charging sounds obvious—plug in outside your apartment, wake up to a full battery. Yet more than 40 million potential urban EV owners are still waiting for someone to figure it out. it’s electric, co-founded by Tiya Gordon, is designing EV charging for cities—making curbside charging possible by inventing what didn’t exist: hardware powere…

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S01E16: Digital Twin Factory Planning and Simulation 38:50

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What if you could run your new factory for a year before the first brick is even laid? Stop making multi-million dollar investment decisions based on static blueprints and start testing your future operations in a risk-free virtual world. Costly design flaws—from unbalanced lines to cramped logistics spaces—are often discovered only after a new pla…

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Alloy Built Brooklyn’s First All-Electric Skyscraper — Wall Street Wants More 49:08

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By fusing architect and developer, Alloy Development is proving that the riskiest choice in real estate isn’t electrification or Passive House — it’s clinging to the past. CEO Jared Della Valle joins Supercool to share the company’s journey to developing The Alloy Block in downtown Brooklyn—aiming to create the most sustainable block in the city. I…

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S01E15: Full Real-Time Plant Analysis 56:55

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Are your business decisions based on a complete picture of your factory, or just fragments of old data? Relying on delayed reports means you're always one step behind, reacting to problems instead of preventing them. This lack of a live, holistic view leads to hidden inefficiencies, slow responses, and missed opportunities for improvement. In this …

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Fashion’s Next Wave Isn’t Fast—It’s Faherty 40:34

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Mike Faherty grew up surfing the Jersey Shore, surrounded by coastal style but chasing something that felt more enduring. Even as a kid, he obsessed over fabrics—the way silk ties carried weight, how colors layered, how clothes gained character through texture. By seventeen, he had already mapped the outlines of the brand he wanted to build. In 201…

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S01E14: Analysis of the Causes and Duration of Machine Downtime 44:09

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What if the biggest source of lost profit in your factory isn't a major breakdown, but the thousands of tiny, unrecorded stops that happen every day? Machine downtime—from micro-stops to major failures—silently drains your efficiency, delays orders, and wastes resources. Without precise data on why and for how long machines are idle, any attempt at…

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The Billion-Mile Diesel Problem and the Business Model Fixing It 39:59

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Forum Mobility is electrifying how America moves freight. Every year, more than 30,000 diesel 18-wheelers haul containers in and out of California’s ports, logging over a billion miles, generating enormous carbon emissions and polluting nearby communities. Electric semis are powerful, quiet, and clean. But at $500,000 apiece with uncertain charging…

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S01E13: Communication for Maintenance on the Causes of Failures 40:17

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Tired of maintenance reports that just say "machine broken"? Vague communication and guesswork don't just frustrate your maintenance team ; they lead to longer downtime, repeat failures, and wasted resources. Every minute spent on the wrong diagnosis is a minute of lost production. In episode 13 of "Factory on Air," we challenge the reactive, "fire…

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The Clean Energy Transition Is Cooking: Copper's Battery-Enabled Appliances Unlock Home Electrification 47:37

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Most U.S. homes aren’t wired for electrified living, even though the clean energy future depends on it. Upgrading panels and wiring can cost thousands before a single new appliance is even installed. Plus, consumers aren’t demanding electrification. They want lifestyle upgrades—faster, more precise cooking, backup power in a pinch, and appliances t…

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S01E12: What if every employee knew what to do? Providing Information to Employees in the Workplace 47:07

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What if your production employees knew exactly what to do, why, and how—every second of their work? No more guesswork, mistakes, or downtime resulting from information chaos. Many production line workers still work “blind” – without access to current targets, instructions, or schedule changes. This is a surefire recipe for mistakes that cost real m…

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Interface is Going Carbon-Negative (No Offsets Necessary) 43:45

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Interface is a public company proving that carbon-negative is possible at scale. The billion-dollar flooring brand has more than 400 carbon-negative products on the market today and a plan to take its entire business carbon-negative by 2040. Liz Minne, Head of Global Sustainability Strategy, shares how Interface is operationalizing that ambition th…

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S01E11: Precise Production Planning 1:00:25

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This episode uncovers how manufacturers can transform chaotic, delay-prone schedules into precise, data-driven production plans—so orders ship on time, machines run at optimal capacity, and teams work without the constant fire-fighting. You’ll discover how real-time machine data, material availability checks, and “what-if” simulations turn planning…

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Amazon: Faster Delivery, Lower Emissions 42:44

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At Amazon, speed isn’t a carbon cost—it’s a carbon advantage. The company now runs 30,000 electric delivery vehicles, delivered 1.5 billion packages on battery power last year, and has built over 600 renewable energy projects in more than 20 countries—20 gigawatts of clean energy capacity, making it the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewa…

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S1E10: Determining Production Capacity and Setting Realistic Work Standards 52:55

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This episode demystifies how to determine true production capacity and build data-driven work standards—so planners can schedule with confidence and frontline teams know exactly what “good” looks like. You’ll hear how digital twins and scenario-based simulations expose the hidden impact of micro-stoppages, staffing changes, and layout tweaks, while…

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Freedom From Ordinary: Brompton Folding Bikes Take on America 41:12

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For fifty years, Brompton has been the most iconic name in urban cycling. Engineered and made in London, beloved by city riders, and still unrivaled in how fast it folds and how good it feels to ride. But in the U.S., where biking is still mostly recreational and folding bikes barely register, the brand faces a different challenge: how to scale a j…

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S1E9: Understanding the Causes of Low OEE 56:47

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This episode tackles why Overall Equipment Effectiveness drops—and how to pinpoint the real culprits before they drain profits. We unpack the data-driven workflow that traces every lost minute back to its source, from chronic slowdowns to one-off breakdowns, and show how the DBR77 platform turns raw machine signals into actionable root-cause insigh…

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Clean Energy Is As American As Football in the Fall—If You Tell It Right 42:36

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To scale climate solutions, you have to know how to talk about them. The companies driving climate adoption don’t just offer better solutions—they tell better stories. Stories that reframe clean energy as the smarter, cheaper, everyday choice. Stories that win customers, sway skeptics, and shift markets. Keith Zakheim has spent two decades working …

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S1E8: OEE Under the Microscope – How to Identify and Eliminate Losses 1:15:17

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This episode puts Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) under the microscope and shows how data-driven tools—from IoT sensors to full-blown digital twins—help uncover and eliminate hidden production losses. We explain what OEE really measures (Availability × Performance × Quality), walk through proven methods for capturing micro-stoppages in real t…

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Hemp Grows Up: A Long-Awaited Crop Now Insulates U.S. Homes 47:59

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Industrial hemp always had believers. What it lacked was a supply chain. Hempitecture is changing that—starting with the first commercial-scale factory in the U.S. making high-performance home insulation from hemp. Headquartered in Idaho, the company has shipped to 5,000+ customers across 48 states. It’s now the largest buyer of industrial hemp fib…

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S01E07: Increasing the Visibility of Production Processes 52:42

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Is your company still making production decisions based on yesterday's reports? It's a simple path to waste, delays and frustration. In the latest episode of our podcast, we delve into the world of real-time data. Learn why metrics like OEE and cycle times, monitored live, are a revolution in production management. We'll explain how IoT technology …

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Electrify Everything: Span’s Big Bet on the Dumbest Box in the House 51:39

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Consumers want the upgrades. The climate does too. But the electrical panel in the garage stands in the way. EVs, heat pumps, induction stoves—electrification is becoming more attractive. The products are faster, cleaner, cheaper to run. But nearly 48 million U.S. homes still rely on outdated 100-amp service. That means expensive utility upgrades, …

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S1E6: Improving Product Quality and Reducing Defects 50:18

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In the latest episode of the podcast, we talk about how to improve product quality and reduce defects. You'll learn about the cost of defective products to a company, how vision systems help detect defects and why monitoring production conditions is so important. We will also give examples of companies that have significantly improved their quality…

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Clean Energy Is Dead. Long Live Clean Energy. 45:39

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America invented the clean energy future. Now it may be dismantling it, just as the rest of the world hits the accelerator. The U.S. was first. The first silicon solar cell in New Jersey. The first wind turbine in Cleveland. The first microinverter in a California garage. But now it’s China scaling the clean energy transition—building factories, lo…

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S1E5: Reducing Operating Costs in Production 55:44

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In the latest episode of the “Reducing Operating Costs in Production” podcast, we talk about where high costs come from - energy, materials, labor - and how to reduce them. You'll learn how to monitor energy consumption on a regular basis, how simulations help plan for savings, and which companies have already done it successfully. We'll also tell …

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Profits at Recycling's Edge: TerraCycle Finds ROI in Trash No One Wants 49:22

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TerraCycle takes on waste the rest of the world ignores—cigarette butts, diapers, pharmaceutical blister packs. But what makes the model work isn’t what they recycle. It’s how they get companies to pay for it. Even with one of the boldest missions in climate tech—eliminate the idea of waste—TerraCycle doesn’t lead with sustainability. It leads with…

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S01E04: Optimising Production Processes for Greater Efficiency 57:19

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In the latest episode of the podcast, we take on production optimization. We'll talk about how to identify the places that are slowing down your work, and why data is key. We'll also explain how simulations help test changes without the risk of stopping production. We'll give examples of companies that have significantly improved their performance …

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Built for the EV Generation: Formula E Energizes 500 Million Global Race Fans 49:30

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When Roger Griffiths first heard about Formula E in 2014, he was intrigued but skeptical. A veteran of IndyCar, Le Mans, and Formula 1—and a self-described petrol head—he wasn’t convinced electric racing could deliver credible performance. Then he saw who was signing on. Michael Andretti. Alain Prost. Emerson Fittipaldi. Frank Williams. Plus early …

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Cleaning the Grid: Wärtsilä Tackles the Toughest Battery Storage Projects on Earth 41:33

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Grid battery storage has gone from niche to necessary. Fast. Projects that were once 300 megawatt-hours are now hitting 9 gigawatt-hours. And companies like Wärtsilä are leading the charge, taking on the hardest, highest-stakes deployments around the world. In this episode, Dave Hebert, VP of Global Sales & Business Strategy for Wärtsilä's Energy S…

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The ROI on Climate Capital: A Mayor’s Blueprint for Citywide Renewal 58:34

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Jaime Pumarejo helped lead Barranquilla, Colombia, through a stunning transition. When he first joined the city’s government in his twenties, Barranquilla was under bankruptcy protection, poverty was high, and public trust was fractured. Today, it serves as a global model for how climate action can drive economic growth, attract investment, and del…